Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, a Republican, announced that he would designate the presidential battle as the race to support a “risk-limiting audit,” an election verification method that uses a statistical formula to decide how many electronically tabulated ballots need to be manually checked to rule out the chance 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 precision. However, because of the closeness of the presidential race, that is what will occur to every ballot in Georgia. Raffensperger said the margin between Biden and Trump is now only 14,111 votes.
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“When you have five million votes and the margin is so close … mathematically, you actually have to do a full, hand-by-hand recount of all [the ballots],” Raffensperger said, noting that different races with different edges wouldn’t require examination of each ballot.
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Raffensperger has been under significant backlash from other Georgia Republicans in recent days, as GOP officials mimic Trump’s efforts to weaken faith in the election results. Republican Sens. David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler both called on Raffensperger to quit, insisting without providing specific allegations that there were extensive irregularities in the election.
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Raffensperger had previously claimed he would not quit, and he defended the integrity of Georgia’s election.
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“It’ll take every bit of the time we have left, for sure. It is a big lift,” Raffensperger said Wednesday, noting that the state’s certification deadline is on Nov. 20. He remarked that, following the deadline, a nominee could ask for a recount if the margin is within half a percentage point. But that recount would be managed using scanners, not by hand.
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Though, there are two motives why most Senate Republicans resist recognizing Joe Biden as president-elect: Georgia and Georgia.
Simply put, the party wants President Donald Trump’s help to secure two runoff elections in Georgia on Jan. 5 that will decide the fate of the Senate GOP’s majority. And receiving the presidential results before Trump, a politician driven by loyalty, could put Republicans at odds with the president and his core followers amid the must-win elections down South.
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“We need his voters. And he has a tremendous following out there,” said Senate Majority Whip John Thune of South Dakota. “Right now, he’s trying to get through the final stages of his election and determine the outcome there. But when that’s all said and done, however it comes out, we want him helping in Georgia.”
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