Close the vote totals are between candidates. Good afternoon. Thank you for taking the time to be here. We are working hard to maintain communications with the media, county officials, and our voters. Our office will give unprecedented access. The voters of georgia deserve transparency. Deserve accurate, real election results. Election workers around the state are working with integrity to ensure every legal ballot is counted and no illegal ballots are counted. Right now, georgia remains too close to call. Out of the approximate 5 million votes cast, we will have a margin of a few thousand. The focus for our office in county Election Officials for now remain making sure that every legal vote is counted and recorded accurately. As we are closing in on a final count, we can begin to look towards our next steps. With a margin that small, there will likely be a recount in georgia. Interest in our election goes beyond our borders. The final tally in georgia at this point has huge implications for the country. The stakes are high and the emotions are high on all sides. Debatesnot let those distract us from our work. And defend it right the integrity of our elections. States, there are complaints about monitors not being allowed to watch. In georgia but this process is open and transparent to monitors. If any member of the public raises legitimate concerns, we will investigate those, committed to maintaining trust in our electoral process for regardless of, partisan preference thank you. Partisan preference. Thank you. Good afternoon. Putting your microphones where i put my computer. Theoutstanding balance are same as they were this morning. We have more information on the provisionals and other ballots. Margin,start with the 2,440,796 for President Trump 50,381 004 hundred that is where we stand right now. We do know today is the day for the deadline for military and overseas ballots that wouldve been postmarked by tuesday election day to be excepted. Accepted in the state. We do have some numbers on that. 410 to8, leaving8 be received. That does not mean theres a bucket of 8410 to be counted. They could have been postmarked by tuesday and received by today. It will be more than zero and less than 8410. It will be somewhere in that range. I have a county by county breakdown. I will give you the highlights and we will try to put this into release. Big ones. Nt the 86 are still out there. Chatham, 395. , 171. Ee clayton county, 241. Cobb county, 569. Columbia county, 247. Dekalb county, 802. , for the yankees in the room, it is dekalb county. , 74. Y douglas county, 111. Fayette, 149. Forsyth, 453. Fulton, 956. That is the biggest number. Henry, 238. This is a fun one. It is not houston. It is houston. 196. Liberty county. 173. A military base. Out waited in size and population. 141. Muskogee county, 323. 105. Richmond, 244. Masters coming up soon. Lock bail, 80. Those are the biggest ones. You can take them together. The balance is the 4000 from the 159 counties i did not name. After that, the provisionals. The initial provisional report for Fulton County, the largest one with the biggest potential impact, the total provisional 629. Ts 4800 rejectingted 3603, 1266 provisional ballots on hand. Chunks where the voter brought id, 1205, and voted out of precinct, inside t theight county, but a wrong precinct, 2398. Unfortunately they can only vote on the things on the ballot that affected the areas they shared with the other precincts, a president , senators, but state house, county Commission Races will not. That is the difference. We dont like to seeing voting out of county. The rejected ballot justifications come out of county, 673. You can only vote provisionally inside your own county. Not registered voters, 573. Noncitizens, 13. That is the initial provisional report. I expect that to change somewhat. I spoke with some monitors who said there were changes, as well as absentees damage. Cut when south of 300 they were using openers. Those will be rescanned and tallied today. Lets see. Not that one. You get crazy looking at all the spreadsheets. They are not. Theyve not scanned and uploaded those yet. You are getting ahead. You can come back later. All right. The total number of provisionals in the state, not the total, we have the numbers from 134 of 159 counties, and a lot of the large ones. We have dekalb county. We might have all the big ones. Electionving target, workers doing lots of things. We are happy to get this information to the voters and viewers. Guess what . Um yet,not hit the s because thats the exciting television you came for today. All right. 13,012 total number of provisionals, including Fulton County. It is closer to 9000. They have these fun things cold codes. Codes. Ed versions,different voter ids, then the provisional not registered, which means they couldnt prove your registration, but you could cure that. They had extended hours past 7 00. Inse votes are provisional case a court adjudicates they should not have been opened, but they will get counted. , righte out of precinct county, wrong precinct, noncitizen, self explanatory, and partial registration, but not enough information to identify the voter. They have the opportunity to cure those. , letsgest one will be see, out of precinct voters, column g. Lets see how many of those. These will be counted and included, 3908. You dont have to take the subset out of fulton. I gave you the fulton numbers earlier. Minutesploads every 20 to 30 minutes as counties try to get everything done today. You will see lots of uploads. It goes up three in the margin, seven. O, up nothing is moving the needle a lot. We are still around 1500, but the larger chunk of potentials could move it. The duplications of damage ballots could move it. It depends where they are coming from. We are trying to get everything closed out today. My entire high school was 2000 people, and we have less that here. Every vote is important. The job is to ensure every single legal vote is counted in the will of the voters is met on this very important election. Now you can ask your question. Ok. We are looking at the timeline given the strong probability of a recount, we will not ascertain it. We have two certified. Lawsuits from both campaigns. Could order the counties or states to do different things, but now we are operating with the laws we have,he timeline, the staff we have audit, certification of the state, then likely, a request for a recount. Is there evidence of illegal voting . As i said, in the situation with the margin is small, you dont need anything rampant. There are irregularities in every election, but in this case, everyone is important, every insight and report will be investigated fully. We are working hard to protect the integrity of the vote regardless of who makes a complaint. They are still under investigation. Yes, sir . Where are the missing military ballots in georgia . What happened . Inwe will see what comes from the u. S. Post office. They have to be postmarked by tuesday. There are ballots that will make it, and ballots that will not make it. Legal ballots have to be here by close of Business Today after being postmarked by election day. Yes, maam . You notice the difference in the , 500 have come in and the last few hours and processed by the counties. Yes, john . Reporter [indiscernible] again, we report the results from every county. At some point, the Legal Process continues. Once the county certifies, we make sure the paperwork is legal, then we will certify. That is when the secretary of state would stand and say this is the winner of this election, then we anticipate a recount. , will there bet a point at which you say all the s we know about have been counted . Know, the process. We certify all the legal votes we have. The process has been set up for many decades. Yes . For the counties, and at the outer end, the 20th, and our hope is they will certify faster than that so we can begin the audit process so we can certify before him and have more thatto what is likely recount. Maam, you can go ahead. Reporter [indiscernible] byhi think that i definition youre not counting illegal votes. Yes maam . Reporter [indiscernible] what they are doing now is you have to verify those first. They were likely be scanned today and part of the uploads today. I am giving you the latest information we have. I do not believe most of these have been scanned yet. Of dont want to scan a lot stuff and then do more later on. Yes, sir . Hollande. Hold on. Reporter [indiscernible] would you prefer to not do that . You are right. Yesterday, thet day before, the rules outlined this. One rule is for ease of use. He is pointing out in a risklimiting audit, youre trying to use the smallest number of ballots to get you to a point of confidence about the outcome. I think it is. 03 difference is correct, but a recount, extremely difficult, so that might answer the question for you. Yes, maam . Reporter [indiscernible] our hope would be today. That could slip into tomorrow. Everybody is exhausted. It is friday. There is a georgia game tomorrow. We have to focus on the important things to be prepared with doing vital things for this country. Yes, maam . Reporter [indiscernible] trump iswhat president trying to encourage that many of our military heroes have turned in their ballots and they will be arriving by the legal deadline of the state. Yes, maam . Reporter [indiscernible] as i understand it, that is normal. Yes, sir . We will come back to you in a second. Reporter [indiscernible] can you tell us how many you are investigating . I cant answer that. I dont know. I need some water. Reporter [indiscernible] correct . That is what i said. It was correct. 13,012. Reporter have those provisional ballots been accepted . They are all ballots, excepted, not accepted. , out ofst numbers ballot is,ince every 3908, and we are missing 20 counties, so the number will be ger that the end of the day. They are treated the same way. Yes, sir . Reporter [indiscernible] ok, there is a difference. You notice, they pushed out results on election night. Were talking about a difference between what they have uploaded, ok . Then they had the new ones tuesday, then some other ones there that had to be rescanned. The 7000 is what they were votes arebut only new within that range. Reporter can you explain that again . Votes. Pushed out 80,000 there was an issue because of saying wecation, would just push out the results we have now. We will rescan these things. At that point, it was decided internally how to do this. They wanted to get the information out, because that was the most important thing at the time. Part of the results we have received are already there, so there is a new section of stuff that came in before 7 00 p. M. Tuesday, and those are the additional ones on top of that. When i said 3500, i was talking to a staffer and thought i had a confirmed number, and i might have been wrong. I apologize. This is a moving target. That is the reason for 4400. We are confident in the numbers for the county. Is it possible they are off . Yes. These people are underpaid and overworked, like so many. They are doing the best to at what point do you anticipate you will not have to come out here and talk about the category of the vote counted where we will be . Here is the thing that is frustrating to people across the country and ive been watching news conferences across the country. This is a Legal Process weve been doing for several years and we are so we are still inside the window for ballots to be counted. This is the outer edge of getting them legally established. This is the outer edge of getting the provisionals validated and counting. We are on the outer edge of getting absentees cured and counted. We will know the final universe of numbers by today and its going to be an easy thing to see. After that, we have to go through the final process, you are going to go through an audit your internal results and make sure the numbered list of voters matches the ballots, matches the cards. Theres a lot of processes there to protect the integrity of the vote we have to go through to finalize this. Thats why we have these county verification process. The county certification process first, as quickly as we can so we can move to the risk limiting audit because that is going to validate under our reform law, passed in 2019 by the legislature, that is the thing thats going to let people know the paper ballot i noted in the outcome we saw were correct. Once that is done, then state certification. The certification we have to do is november 20. Why is that . Because we know we have a minimum a runoff. That was too runoff for the senate. The rules that are federal and that require we get those ballots ready to go and prepared on saturday, november 21. So we have to certify election before we can give ballots to an election. So that is the outer edge we have to have done. [indiscernible] will they be posted by candidate on the website with 100 . The official results everybody is looking at it right now. Biden is ahead by 1500 votes but that could change even the amount out there. He could extend his lead, it could say the same, or President Trump could exceed could extend his lead. [indiscernible] you are right on the first one. On the second one, i gave you the Fulton County breakout, so we know some of those. That 13,000 drops to about 9000. Inside that 9000, we know for certain what will be added is 3908 of the ones out of precinct. That further drop your number down we should never do math on National Television about 5000. Those are the potential additional votes on top of the ones we have. [indiscernible] process wise, its easier to do it all at the end of the day when you know you have everything in. They are roughly the same. We have not seen too much motion on those and we have been seeing all day long, to keep tacky things, three here, for there, thats what im talking about. [indiscernible] at the end of the day, how do we assure georgians their vote is accurately count . Lets go through this again. Theres a lot of paperwork and accountability to know everyone of our outlets are there and accounted for and then counted. The county says yes, we know this is our final number, we will look at it, assess it and then we certify it. That is the risk limiting audit in between and that is the item thats part of the foundation of the bedrock of trust because it will certify the scanner reflected what is on the paper ballot vote the first time. That is where the reassurance comes from, the process following the law and then doing certifications. [indiscernible] no, sir. Th