Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger in his Twitter announced plans to manually recount the votes cast by voters in the presidential election.
“Legislation passed by the state of Georgia in 2019 requires manual review to mitigate risk, which means a recount.
We are committed to counting every ballot that meets the legal requirements.
Georgia voters deserve accurate and reliable election results, ”said Raffensperger.
According to law Georgia passed in 2019-- Georgia is required have a state-wide hand Risk Limiting Audit (RLA), trigging a recount.
We are committed to counting every legal ballot.
Georgia voters deserves accurate, secure results.
We stand by our numbers.
- GA Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger (@GaSecofState) November 11, 2020
During the press conference, he also stressed that the entire state will recount the votes cast for both the incumbent US President Donald Trump and the Democratic candidate Joe Biden.
"Given the small gap, it will be necessary to manually recount all votes in each district," Raffensperger quoted CNBC as saying.
According to the Georgia secretary of state, the state will work with the counties to complete the recount by November 20, the deadline for the statewide election results.
“We will definitely need all the time we have left,” he said.
According to American media reports, Biden is ahead of Trump in Georgia by more than 14 thousand votes, while the total number of voters in this state is about 5 million people.
We will remind, on November 3, presidential elections were held in the United States, following which, according to media reports, Biden won.
The Democratic candidate has already declared himself President-elect of the United States, promising to live up to his hopes and to be “the president of all Americans,” whether they voted for him or not.
However, Donald Trump said that his rival "is in a hurry to unfairly pass himself off as a winner" because he does not want "the truth to come out."
According to the head of the White House, "the elections are far from over."
It is worth noting that the official results of the presidential elections in the United States will become known only after December 14, when the electoral college will vote for the presidential candidates according to the results of the popular vote.
However, there are no federal laws requiring electors to vote for a winner in the state they represent.
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Trump's fight
Despite Biden's declared victory, Trump also claims to be winning the election.
He reported "hundreds of thousands of votes that could not be counted."
“Nobody wants to report that the states of Pennsylvania and Michigan did not allow our election and / or vote counting observers to attend either the election or the vote count.
Because of this, hundreds of thousands of votes were counted that could not be counted.
Thus, I easily win in both states, "- wrote the current head of the White House on Twitter.
Nobody wants to report that Pennsylvania and Michigan didn't allow our Poll Watchers and / or Vote Observers to Watch or Observe.
This is responsible for hundreds of thousands of votes that should not be allowed to count.
Therefore, I easily win both states.
Report the News!
- Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 12, 2020
According to the American leader, he received 72 million votes - "more than any current president in US history."
Earlier in an official statement, the president said that his campaign headquarters "have substantiated legal claims that could reveal the final winner."
According to Trump, his headquarters "will begin to consider the case in court in order to ensure full compliance with the rules of electoral law and make sure that the rightful winner is the president."
"I will not rest until the honest vote counting that they deserve and which democracy requires," said the American leader.
Trump's headquarters filed a lawsuit in Pennsylvania alleging an illegal mail-order voting system.
Also, the headquarters of the President of the United States filed a lawsuit in the state of Michigan, citing witness testimony about multiple violations in the counting of votes.
A lawsuit requiring all counties in the state to "separate all late arrivals from all legally cast ballots" was filed in Georgia.
Earlier, the head of the White House has repeatedly stated that the 2020 elections were accompanied by machinations by the Democrats.
For example, in one of his posts on Twitter, Trump said that "tens of thousands of votes illegally adopted after eight o'clock on Tuesday evening, on election day, radically and easily change the voting results in Pennsylvania and some other states with a small gap between candidates." ...
"I would also like to note that observers, in violation of the law, were not allowed to the process of counting hundreds of thousands of votes ..." - wrote Trump, stressing that "this can also affect the outcome of the vote in many states, including Pennsylvania."
The US President also did not rule out that he will regain leadership in a number of states following the results of court proceedings.
"Perhaps, as our litigation progresses, this gap will return," the head of the White House said on his Twitter.
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"They will act promptly"
Meanwhile, according to a number of political analysts, until December 14, Trump's campaign headquarters and his supporters still have time to challenge the election results in key states in court and influence the outcome of the electoral process.
“Trump’s headquarters is already citing evidence that vast numbers of ballots in Georgia, Pennsylvania and other wavering states were illegal.
There are eyewitness testimonies, video recordings, documentary evidence that falsifications were observed during the voting: in particular, some ballots were counted several times, the votes of migrants and even the so-called “dead souls” were counted.
There were also such cases when the ballots were collected illegally and given to the polling stations, ”said American political scientist Malek Dudakov in an interview with RT.
However, he found it difficult to predict what will be the outcome of the cases initiated by the Trump headquarters, "since there have been no precedents for the annulment of thousands of votes in the United States."
“Usually in the United States, a recount of votes is a routine matter, before it was about hundreds of votes, which were taken from one candidate and added to another,” the expert explained.
However, he suggested that recounting ballots by hand in Georgia "could mean checking them against a database."
"This way, you can ascertain whether such a voter actually exists, whether he really lives in Georgia and whether he is not an illegal migrant," the analyst said.
He also recalled that there is another recount strategy.
“When there are too many ballots and it is difficult to understand in a short time, which of them are legal and which are not, you can cancel all the results in the areas of the state where Trump observers were not allowed.
For example, if they did this in Philadelphia, a democratic city, then Biden could well have lost there, since he would have lost a lot of votes, ”the expert explained.
Nevertheless, he believes that court proceedings and recounts in a number of states "cannot guarantee the victory of the head of the White House."
“Trump has de facto no more than 232 electors.
In Georgia, 16 electoral votes will not make him a leader.
This will still be less than the required 270 votes.
Even if he manages to change the results in Pennsylvania, he will receive 268 electoral votes - this will not be enough for him to win either.
One more state will be needed, that is, in aggregate, Trump will have to achieve his victory in at least three states at the expense of the courts.
However, such a scenario is not the most likely, ”says the analyst.
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However, Trump “will fight to the end anyway,” Dudakov said.
“He still has time until December 14th.
Suddenly, a miracle will happen and Trump will be able to bridge the gap.
However, whatever the outcome of the trials and the recount of votes, the head of the White House will seek to demonstrate that Biden's victory was not entirely legitimate.
I think the current head of the White House will appeal to the electors with an appeal to support him.
The fact that they will respond positively to this is also not a very likely scenario, but it should not be ruled out, ”the expert said.
According to Konstantin Blokhin, a researcher at the Center for Security Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, "the Trump team will use maximum resources to achieve victory in the courts."
“The Republicans and Trump are determined and will act very quickly.
Trump has time to fully engage the courts.
At the same time, Biden wants to show with his statements that the point of no return has been passed and that the Republicans should no longer take any action, "Blokhin said in an interview with RT.
Blokhin also predicted that as a result of the recount, "Biden's confident position may be shaken."
“He and his team can get nervous and make mistakes.
So far, only the mass media are talking about his victory, there is no official data.
And in combination with a huge amount of evidence of fraud during the vote, all this may well call into question Biden's victory, ”the analyst said.
According to Blokhin, "legal proceedings and courts play an important role in the United States, therefore, it cannot be ruled out that the situation may change."