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Trump gains in Georgia after uncounted ballots found, but Biden still easily wins the state

Despite significant ballot counting errors in two Georgia counties, Biden will easily win that state.

Georgia is recounting and recanvassing its votes, and election officials found ~2,700 uncounted ballots in Fayette County and ~2,500 uncounted ballots in Floyd County. In Fayette County, Trump picked up 1,577 and Biden 1,128; and in Floyd County, Trump gained 1,643 and Biden 865 votes, which reduced Biden’s statewide lead by 1,227 to 12,929.

The ballots were overlooked by election workers, which Georgia officials said was due to human error. That’s a pretty large mistake in a county of ~100,000 population, and suggests there may have been problems with recruiting capable election workers in those two semi-rural counties because of the pandemic, but counting these ballots reduces Biden’s statewide lead by less than 10%, and a shift of ~1,200 votes isn’t unusual in statewide recounts.

In Georgia’s other counties, the errors were insignificant: 57 counties exactly matched their original tallies, 21 counties were 1 vote off, and the other 32 counties reported single-digit adjustments.

Expect Trump and his supporters to blow horns about these errors, but there’s no such thing as a perfect election, and the remedy provided by law is to correct the tally before certification, not throw out the election results. These changes to Georgia’s results don’t bring Trump anywhere near overturning Biden’s winning that state’s electoral votes.

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