11/06/2020 3:23 PM
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Updated 11/06/2020 3:23 PM
The state of
Georgia
, one of those that could define the outcome of the elections in the United States, that there will be a count of the votes in that territory given the tightness of the results, which may cause it to be unknown who won the presidency there until the end of November.
At a time of maximum expectation and tension over the results of the presidential elections, with Democrat Joe Biden leading with 253 electoral votes, very close to the 270-vote threshold to reach the White House, Georgia authorities said that for now the results in this state are very tight.
When the recount was announced this Friday morning,
Biden was leading the count in the state by just 1,098 votes
.
"With such a narrow margin, there will be a recount in Georgia," the secretary of state of that southern state, Brad Raffensperger, told a news conference.
The manager of the voting system in Georgia, Gabriel Sterling, announces the count of votes in that state to the press this Friday.
Photo: AFP
Georgia state law allows you to request a recount of the votes if the winning candidate's margin of victory is less than 0.5%, and Biden's lead over incumbent President Donald Trump for now is not even 0.1%. .
"This margin is literally less than the capacity of a large high school," said the person in charge of the implementation of the voting system in Georgia, Gabriel Sterling, in the same press conference.
The recount will have to be formally requested by one of the two presidential candidates,
but that cannot happen "until the results of the elections have been certified" after an audit of the process, Sterling explained.
"We should know the result (of the elections)
by the end of November,
" Sterling calculated, although he clarified that this calendar could vary if there is new litigation over the process of counting votes in the state.
However, Biden does not need to win in Georgia to win the 270 Electoral College delegates
that are required to secure the White House: if he wins in Pennsylvania, where he also had a very slim advantage, he would already reach 284, according to projections of the main media.
At 10 a.m. in Georgia there were still 5,500 votes to be counted in four counties in the state, in addition to another 8,890 ballots mailed by military deployed abroad who had not yet reached the territory, Raffensperger reported.
Supporters of Democrat Joe Biden carry a flag this Friday in Atlanta, Georgia.
Photo: EFE
It is not clear how many of those 8,890 ballots will end up being counted, because only those that arrive at the electoral offices before the end of the working day this Friday will enter the calculation, he said.
One reason the count has taken so long in Georgia is that
some counties forgot to press the button to "upload" the results to the computer system
, and did not get to do it until this Thursday or Friday, according to Sterling, a Republican as Raffensperger.
However, that official denied that there were any systematic problems in the scrutiny, and stressed: "We have not seen any generalized irregularities."
The Trump campaign has unprovenly denounced fraud in several key states and this Wednesday filed a lawsuit to question the validity of some of the votes in Georgia, but a judge dismissed that complaint.
Source: AFP and EFE
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