Georgia's chief election official announces hand recount of presidential results

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Source: Politico.com

Georgia’s chief election official announced Wednesday that the state will conduct a recount by hand of every ballot cast in the presidential race, with President-elect Joe Biden narrowly leading President Donald Trump in the state’s vote count.

Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, a Republican, said that he would designate the presidential contest as the race to undergo a “risk-limiting audit,” an election verification procedure that uses a statistical formula to determine how many electronically tabulated ballots need to be manually checked in order to rule out the possibility of fraud or errors.

“With the margin being so close, it will require a full, by-hand recount in each county,” Raffensperger said. “It will be an audit, a recount and a recanvass all at once.”

In risk-limiting audits, every ballot is not necessarily examined for accuracy. But, because of the closeness of the presidential race, that is what will happen to every ballot in Georgia. Raffensperger said the margin between Biden and Trump is currently just 14,111 votes.

Read more: https://www.politico.com/news/2020/11/11/georgia-election-official-recount-presidential-results-436048

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I'm sure Trumpkins will try to intimidate the people doing the recount

[unblock]

1. Cue the brooks brothers riot on steroids.

[lostnfound]

10. Trio of SC justices could suspend their day jobs for reunion with Turd Blossom.

Why not? Such a laughingstock of a Republican Party.

[Thekaspervote]

2. Ohhh it's sooooo close..sure. But good, let's put it to bed..they aren't going to win

Not the recount or the election!

Even little Scotty walker from WI said the recounts he was involved in yielded approx 150-200 vote changes.

Biden now has a 14k+ lead there. They just want a different outcome..ain’t happenin

[Chicago1980]

3. Hmmm.....

You'd why just the presidential race? Seems like they'd want to also count down ballot races too.

[groundloop]

9. Georgia law required ONE race be audited..... SOS chose the presidential race

[LisaL]

11. Audited doesn't mean full hand recount of the race, which is what SOS is planning to do.

NT

[global1]

4. Will It Be A Recount Of Just The Presidential Votes Or....

will they recount all the races run on Nov. 3rd? What I'm interested in is the voting for the Senate candidates.

Will they try and discredit having the Senate run-offs?

[Politicub]

27. Just votes for president

They will have a stack of votes — one for each candidate.

[Miigwech]

5. Here is where they go for the steal ... mixing the voting machine

counts with the mail in counts ... BINGO! Keep the counts separate!

[LiberalArkie]

6. Florida ? again?

All this to make sure the R Senator-elects don't go to recount?

[LisaL]

13. They are only recounting presidential race.

So it's not about R-senators, it's about Trump.

[LiberalArkie]

15. What if during the "Audit" they find a quantity of no valid ballots for Biden that once they are

tossed, the R senate candidates have more that 50%?

[LisaL]

16. They are not even looking at any other races.

NT

[Midnight Writer]

7. Democrats need to publicize the price tag of this endeavor.

[JustAnotherGen]

8. Agree

And - who precisely is paying for it.

[Chicago1980]

17. Exactly! Make sure the taxpayers know they're footing the bill.

And then double down when Trump loses the states for a second time after said recount.

[logosoco]

24. not to mention, does GA have the pandemic

under control in their state? Seems like they have plenty of work to do but the Rs want them wasting time and resources on this!

[totodeinhere]

12. I have no problem with that. When the recount confirms a Biden victory in that state it will rob

the Republicans of a talking point.

[LisaL]

14. I have a big problem with that.

GA doesn't require an automatic recount. Trump can ask for a recount, but he isn't entitled to a hand recount.
GA is doing hand recount of the whole state.
Which is ridiculous.

[intrepidity]

19. I'm ambivalent

On one hand, I want them to do it, but on the other, Trump should have to request (and pay) for it.

People really want this to be over, so as usual, Trump gets special treatment.

[LisaL]

23. Does anybody think they would be doing it if Trump was ahead by 14,000 votes?

It's ridiculous.

[DallasNE]

18. Why?

14,111 is outside the margin for an automatic state funded recount. If Trump wants to pay for a recount he is allowed one and he can control cost by specifying a machine or hand recount. A machine recount would yield almost no change and the only reason there would be any change is because some ballots have markings that are borderline readable by the computer. One time it picks it up and another time it can't quite pick it up. A hand recount would pick those up so overall both candidates would get more votes from a hand recount. I see nothing to worry about. Joe has this locked down.

[diva77]

20. For the sake of transparency, a hand recount is definitely FAR better than a machine "recount"

as long as the counts are observed by balanced witnesses.

[DallasNE]

35. I Believe A Democrat And A Republican Have To Agree

On who the vote is for on every ballot. Nearly all the markings are very obvious. The rest are set aside for closer scrutiny. Those should result in both sides picking up a few more votes. I can't see where more of a swing than a couple of hundred could occur and that is why the election really isn't close enough to go to this extraordinary measure unless Trump wants to pay for it.

[bucolic_frolic]

21. Speculation on Twitter it would be better to certify the first count beforehand

Link to tweet

William Cormier Jr
@Mystified2269

Be alarmed. Brian Kemp is our Governor, & a stellar reputation he does not possess. I believe the individual counties should certify first, that way we have the paper trail we need. Look 4 GOP fraud on a grand scale. I don't think they dare, albeit t/GOP is supporting a coup.

[Marthe48]

22. Watch the cheaters cheat

The winner already broke through the tape at the end of the race, but the crooked losers want to change the outcome. Even if a hand count doesn't change the outcome, it is planting false hope in impeached traitor and false hope in his idiot cult. I'm sick of coddling a bunch of power mad criminals and watching one fail safe after another fail. gdi

[Firestorm49]

25. My question is, is this another maneuver to postpone for the sake of naming new electors?

[LisaL]

26. GA is supposed to certify by Nov 21st.

Hand recount could take a lot longer than 10 days.
You tell me what that means.

[Pobeka]

30. That's exactly what this is.

and to try to set a precedent that other states need to do the same.

[Politicub]

28. Five. Million. Votes. To be counted by hand

This is a waste of time and resources. And an opportunity for mischief.

[SouthernCal_Dem]

29. LOL. OK

Whatever.

[Hortensis]

31. :) No cost too high to ensure a democratic election.

Seriously, these people have been squandering and transferring our wealth upward all along. Money "wasted" nailing down their loss is at least used to far better purpose.

I imagine the issue is time as they're trying to drag out the rage and hysteria they've induced in trumpsters.

[cstanleytech]

32. Considering how close the race was they will have to find atleast 14,112 magical ballots

for Trump.
Of course given the corruption of the Republicans nationwide and in this state like Kemp I am willing to bet they find extra Trump ballots as well as reasons to throw out just enough Biden ones to get there.

[Texin]

33. This is intended so they can install their own hand-picked *Electors*.

It could trigger others across states with tight margins favoring Biden so that they can rig the Electoral College. This is a stall tactic to prevent the state's vote being certified by deadline.

[COL Mustard]

34. But the election lawyers get rich

Raffensperger is a Republican so this will get interesting.