In the US presidential election, Democrat Joe Biden also won the state after a vote count in Georgia.
Its interior minister, Brad Raffensperger, told the local broadcaster WSB-TV yesterday that the difference between the first and second counts “doesn’t fill a thimble”. There is „no doubt“ that the state will formally confirm Biden’s victory over Republican incumbent Donald Trump.
Advantage under 0.5 percent
In Georgia, according to the original count, Biden and Trump were about 14,000 votes, or less than 0.5 percent, apart. This allowed the recounting to be demanded. The state, with a population of 10.6 million, has 16 voters. Biden’s lead over Trump is now 12,284 votes, as Raffensperger further announced. The decline is not surprising: a few days ago it was discovered that electoral commissions in two Republican-ruled districts had forgotten to include several thousand counted votes in the bill.
Raffensperger stressed on local television that no evidence of election fraud had been found.
Trump team: illegal votes counted
In the presidential election, Biden is a total of 306 voters ahead of Trump with 232. Trump has not yet admitted his electoral defeat. The legal advisor to Trump’s campaign team, Jenna Ellis, immediately questioned the result of the recount. „This so-called hand recount went exactly as we expected because Georgia simply counted all the illegal votes,“ she said. Trump’s campaign team will keep „all legal options“ open.
Trump changes his strategy
According to insiders, Trump’s election campaign team is relying on the intervention of the parliaments of the individual states to overturn the result of the presidential election. As the news agency Reuters learned from three people familiar with the process, the Republican state MPs in Pennsylvania and Michigan are to be brought to the respective electorate of the state directly and in Trump’s favor.
According to the US Constitution, this is permissible because it gives the state parliaments the final decision on the distribution of the electorate. The result of the vote should therefore be ignored. The Republicans control the state parliaments in both states.
