Georgia recount confirms Biden victory and finds no widespread fraud after statewide au... - 0 views
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Georgia has finished its statewide audit of the razor-thin presidential race and President-elect Joe Biden defeated President Donald Trump
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Biden beat Trump by 12,284 votes, according to the final results from the audit. This is a slight drop for Biden compared to the pre-audit results.
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Officials have said repeatedly that the audit confirmed there was no widespread fraud or irregularities in the election.
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"Georgia's historic first statewide audit reaffirmed that the state's new secure paper ballot voting system accurately counted and reported results," Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, a Republican, said in a statement.
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There is no state where the sting of Trump's loss has been more acutely felt than in the red state of Georgia.
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The suburban revolt against Trump in the suburbs surrounding Atlanta, paired with huge turnout among Black voters, powered Biden's gains in the state, building on years of intensive Democratic organizing to register voters.
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The state is now the center of the political universe, because the two US Senate runoff elections will determine which political party controls the Senate.
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The President has continued to tweet debunked disinformation about voting software used in the state and objected to the recount as "fake" by tweeting false claims about the state's signature-matching process.
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In all, more than 5,800 uncounted votes were uncovered, netting nearly 1,400 new votes for Trump, who falsely said the discoveries were proof of wrongdoing.
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State officials stressed that these were accidents caused by human error and not indicative of fraud or vote-rigging.
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Georgia's first statewide audit successfully confirmed the winner of the chosen contest and should give voters increased confidence in the results."
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When asked about the attacks from Trump and members of his own party, he defended his credentials as a "lifelong Republican" and "conservative Christian Republican.