7,305. We are keeping a close eye on that number. That were 1200 ballots went to a second stage of signature match, brought over from state farm arena today. Fromther specific item fulton county, they have 3900 provisionals. I do not know the coding on the provisionals. Depending on the coding, there has to be action by the voter or there is automatic acceptance. When that is down to 4800, we had discussions with them about why they had the 7700 out there. Part of that is the scanning differential. The actual total is about 4400 of the absentee ballots. They did have an issue that was asked about earlier this morning. They had a corrupt memory card on one of the early voting icps, polling place scanners. They took the ballots from that, rescanned those, and those included totals of approximately 400 votes. That is one of the benefits of having a paper backup. Those situations occur, you can take care of those. Harris is continuing to work. Laurens county is continuing to work. They are trying to figure out where the batches are for the 797. Taylor had a unique issue. They did their absentee ballot printing inhouse. Something along the way made the balance not the appropriate size. So if you have a pallet based on coordinates, it cannot be scanned. They are going through the process of duplicating those ballots. They have to take the original ballot,the duplicate match them together to keep a paper trail alive, they will take those ballots, 456 of them, and run them through the scanner. They are a little over halfway through right now. You want to be precise and make reflectingt a ballot precisely the intended vote of the voter was. 47,277. Of following up on another question asked earlier today, this was included in the counts right now. Military and overseas ballots have been accepted in the counties. As i noted earlier, under federal laws, the balance can beked by tuesday accepted by friday. Of the pool of those, there are 8,899. We have no way of knowing that number. With that, i will answer any questions you may have. Can you tell us how long you think it will take for the count . Gabriel first of all, not the secretary. I am the statewide voting implementation manager. How long do you think it will take . Gabriel we have been stating for weeks and months that with the advent of paper, it will take time. We anticipate having the vote count done when the legal deadline for certification is 10 days after the election. That is when it will be done. We cannot know how long the process will take. We hope to have clarity as soon as possible. However, when you have so many important elections in the state being so close, done is a very relative term. We are trying to get all the legal votes counted accurately. Message toyour people around the state and country who claim the amount of time it is taking georgia is some sort of effort to steal an election . Gabriel the effort here is to make sure everybodys legal vote is counted properly and the actual results are reflective of a voters intent. In georgia, it is a close vote. There are other states that have more counts more votes to count than we do but it is a wide margin so nobody cares. This is the first time we have used paper ballots in 20 years. The secretary said it will take a little more time. This requires us to be diligent and make sure we do everything right. The recount process, if we get to that point given how close especially the best of the jewelries is especially the president ial race is, what happens . Request aou can recount before certification, county by county we dont see any mechanism to call for a statewide recount under that scenario. The second way is that it would have to be after certification. Whether that is county or state certification, i will leave that to lawyers. At that point, one of the good things we have happening today is we have been setting up for our risk limiting audit. We have what is called pallet manifests. What is called ballot manifests. The rule, after we passed our ballot reform law, you would take a sample amount of balance sample amount of ballot, run them through the scanner, make sure it matched. Then you would run those through. He central scanner the secretary directed that we procure the highcapacity scanners for each and every county for just such an occasion as this. A recount takeld given the final vote . In georgia, have recounts ever been different . Recounts do not make differences. The cost, unknowable, unknown. We have procured the necessary equipment statewide for such an occasion. How long it is going to take, able be faster than what we saw in Chatham County where a judge decided to order a hand count and it took five days to do 5000 balance. Using technology, we anticipate it could take up to a week. We were talking with some Logistic Companies earlier to make sure we put processes in place. But it would have to be after the certification. Byyou have to certified november 30, correct . Correct . Er 13, gabriel the counties have to theified by november 13, state by november 20. What is your best guess . Gabriel here is the issue. We are relying upon the counties to do their jobs and do them properly. We had a Conference Call this afternoon basically laying out. His timeline the sooner we get the audit done, the sooner we get our certification done. We have a potential in the state runoff for statewide a state level election. Int means there will be one december. They have to be prepared for that. Under our state law, they have a rollover list where they have to get absentee ballots out for 700,000 people now. Have counties Congressional District five. They will be running those elections. At the same time, they will have to be prepared for this audit, certification, and a recount. In the middle of that, it looks like we will have to have a runoff potentially for the purdue seat as well as the Kelly Loeffler seed. We have worked to make short inventories are in place for those runoff elections for the absentee process. We encourage counties to go through their inventories about a month ago. Obviously, lots of things happening at one time. These election directors will have a very good sleep sometime after january 15. Hold on a second. Do you have the numbers on cured ballots coming in from Gwinnett County . Gabriel we do not have the numbers coming in on that. They have until tomorrow to cure those ballots. Can you explain what the long . S is that takes so is,iel one of the issues first, absentee ballots are allowed to be submitted legally tuesday. M. On everyone is running the election on tuesday so you get into wednesday. Then you have to do signature verification to ensure that that ballot is the person who requested it. That is a very important distinction of absentee ballots in georgia. Then they have to go through the process of putting them into batches. Then they get scanned. When they get scanned, if there or ambiguouse mark, they have to be adjudicated. That means members of the republican and Democratic Party have to get together to figure out what that meant. [inaudible] fromel i mean outstanding our vote totals. They have 15,000 scanned. 2000 more to scan. If you go to savannah morning news, they have good information on the state registrar board of elections. I want toasons make sure it is not causing any issues. Have you identified any votes or ballots that you would consider to be illegal . Theiel first of all, secretary of States Office does not make those distinctions. Those are county level distinctions. Any ballot that came in late is not an illegal vote, it is just that it came in late and cannot be counted under the law. Hold on. You not, go ahead. You rescan the balance, you are scanning the qr code gabriel on the risk limiting audit, there is no scanning. It is only based on what a person can read. Sureoint of this, to make that is what is done. [inaudible] does this mean that in addition to the 47,000 still left, this could take into saturday, possibly sunday . Gabriel there is a possibility. The likelihood is that not all 8000 of those will show up. I understand with the close nature of the president ial race, those become important. But there is a cut off time. That is why we have certification times. We have to certified this election by november 20 because under the law, we have to get ballots for the Senate Runoff by saturday the 21st. It is going to be difficult to make it as it is. Our poll workers, election staff, they are going to be putting in a lot of long hours to bring democracy to the people of georgia. Timeline on provisional numbers. Gabriel the only one we have right now i dont have an answer. Obviously, they have to be cured by tomorrow. Right now, i have really put a lot of work into the election directors. I would like to know the answer but they are really focusing on getting those last ballots done. The difference between this morning and today, taking place. Gabriel there were a little over 47,000 now. Thee been changes scanner. While i have everybody here, just to clear some things up. People get confused. Early voting, people go online votingy putting early in person is what is called absentee in person. That is what they have done, they have voted absentee in person. We feel like we are in a good position to get most of it done. We are down to the final percent or so. When the race is this close, we people want to know when it is over. What answer do you have for the president [inaudible] gabriel in this state, with these election directors, they are doing the best to make sure every vote is counted and the outcome will be whatever the voters of georgia say. Yes, it is a tight race. We will have an audit to make sure everything is correct. Provisional [inaudible] gabriel i am not sure. My assumption would probably be midnight for some of these people. Where is the secretary of state . Gabriel he is in meetings trying to catch up on a lot of this stuff now. I like the jacket by the way. Validated to the accuracy of who they voted for . Gabriel there is no paper trail to go back because under the state constitution of georgia, it is a private vote. Once it is verified as coming in, the secrecy sleeve is separated from the individual. Every single vote has to be looked at and examined by that individual voter as they send it in. This pretty much falls in line with everything we have been looking at. In separate databases . Gabriel there is no physical way to tie a vote back to a person. That would lead to things like vote buying. It is the reason we dont allow photography of your ballot in the booth. [inaudible] gabriel at this point, they will be looking at the process and making sure, as we anticipate with any area that goes quote unquote late, even though it is part of the process, there will be questions raised. 43,000 number, that does not include provisional ballots . 9nd the other thing is the 8,89 overseas ballots. Is that just military . Gabriel it is uniformed military overseas. It could be expat under that same thing. Awarewhat degree are you of great concern to the public across this country and in georgia about concerns that may be somehow votes are being found that are trying to rake the system and put the system at their mercy and come out with an outcome . Gabriel i think if anyone was going to try to rig a system, they might have done it less close than this. We have election directors and their staff working to get this right diligently every single day. We know how many requests came in for absentee ballots. We know how many ballots are received. That is an outward bound. Withe can suddenly show up 100,000 ballots somewhere. Securitytate, we take very seriously. The name of the campaign was secure your vote. I understand in other states, there are questions. I can only stand for this state. The secretarys staff, the election directors around the state, they are going to get it right. We are going to have a recount for president more than likely and people will see those outcomes stay essentially the same. The recount we had in savannah really proved that the scanned ballots were the same as when a human being read and counted those ballots. Yes, sorry. [inaudible] lawsuit alleging late arriving ballots here gabriel i know they filed that lawsuit. Thank you all very much. Have a great day. One more . Any updates we could have access to . Gabriel we have been sending out reports about every half an hour of the ballot counts as they come in. The main thing is ballot processing and accounting is continuing. Again, it has to go to tomorrow to get it accurately done. Thanks a lot. Vote counting continues in nevada and a number of other states today. Looking at the map, joe biden has 264 Electoral College votes to president