The top election official in the US state of Georgia said on Wednesday that no indication has yet been detected of widespread fraud in the state's vote count, while President Donald Trump's campaign continues to challenge the results of some states, while President-elect Joe Biden continues to form his administration. .
Republican Georgia State Secretary Brad Ravensberger said in an interview with CNN that he ordered a manual recount, because the difference is very close, as Democrat Biden is currently leading by 14,000 votes over Republican Trump, equivalent to 0.3% .
But Ravensberger believes that the votes have been counted so far accurately, and it is expected that the recount will not end before the 20th of this month.
Asked about allegations of vote-rigging, Ravensberger said, "We have investigations going, but we haven't noticed anything broad," adding that there is still no evidence of any differences large enough to reverse Biden's progress.
Georgia's vote will be recounted as Trump - refusing to admit defeat - proceeds with legal challenges in several states to try to change the outcome.
A Trump campaign spokesman had said that Georgia's decision to recount the votes was an important step toward ensuring the integrity of the elections and counting all votes.
Meanwhile, Trump's team went to federal court to try to prevent the state of Michigan from certifying the election results, as Trump is behind by about 148,000 votes in an unofficial count of the state's total votes, but state official Jake Rollo said in a statement that the Trump campaign is promoting false allegations. To undermine public confidence in elections.
Trump said in a tweet on Twitter that the Republican Election Commissioner in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Al Schmidt is being used by the media - describing them as fake - to explain that the elections in Philadelphia were conducted in a fair manner.
Trump added that Schmidt was associated with Republicans by name only, and accused him of ignoring a mountain of corruption and deceit, as he put it.
Schmidt had said in an interview with "CNN" that the elections are the most transparent and secure in the history of the city, adding that no fraud or widespread fraud has been detected, and that the counting of votes is still continuing.
Arizona Republican Attorney General Mark Bernovich said there was no evidence yet of fraud in the state, or any other irregularities that would affect the election results.
On the other hand, the Organization of American States observers - which attended the elections at the invitation of the State Department - said that it did not notice any violations or fraud that might affect the announced election results.
Observers added in a preliminary report that they did not stop violations, stressing that they spread on polling days in states, including Georgia, Michigan, Iowa and Maryland. They also confirmed Trump's right to go to court to demand scrutiny of the results, but they warned against rumors.
For its part, NBC quoted Trump advisers as saying that the president may accept the election results, but he will not admit the loss even after the votes are approved in the disputed states.
As for CNN, it quoted an informed source as saying that Trump met Tuesday with his political and advisers at the White House to discuss the next steps in his legal strategy.
The network added that Trump appeared skeptical of his legal team's efforts but intended to continue the appeals, although some of his advisers privately say there is no opportunity.
The network clarified that one of the Republicans close to the White House expected that the legal efforts would reach a conclusion by next week, and once this is done, pressure will increase on the president to accept that Biden will be the next president.
In turn, Republican Senator Pat Tome of Pennsylvania said, "I think that it would be better to start the process of transferring power, and I expect that soon. It seems that things are heading to ratification soon that Biden will win the presidency."
Media reports said former bipartisan ministers urged the Trump administration to allow the Biden transfer of power to begin.
Joe Biden began to form his administration and chose Ronald Klein - who was his office manager when he was the previous vice president - to fill the position of chief White House staff in his next administration.
Biden enlisted the help of financial, commercial and banking experts on his transition team, whose members range from fellow Democrats to progressive activists.
Biden’s office said today, Thursday, that he telephoned the leaders of Australia, Japan and South Korea, during which they congratulated him on winning the election.
In the Senate elections held in conjunction with the presidential elections, the Republicans won an additional seat on Wednesday after their party’s victory in Alaska, and thus they were within a distance of one seat from obtaining an absolute majority in the upper chamber of Congress.