Secretary of state announced a full hand recount in the president ial election for the state, noting a 14,000 plus boat difference between Vice President biden and president trump. This runs 20 minutes. [background sounds] good morning, everyone. Today is november 11. Before i get started talking about what we are here today, id like to give a heartfelt prayer of thanksgiving to all of those that gave their lives to this country, all those people are continue to serve. This is a special day. This is a hollow day. Growing up my dad served in world war ii, in the navy, and people were called to serve and then we had korea, vietnam and the people serving today. So we can never forget and we can never give them enough thanks what theyve done for this nation. One of the things they fought for is for our right, our freedom to have free and fair elections. So that is at the end of day what we really need to be mindful, particularly of our office as we work finishing up and closing out the ele
Today is november 11. Before i get started talking about what we are here today, id like to give a heartfelt prayer of thanksgiving to all of those that gave their lives to this country, all those people are continue to serve. This is a special day. This is a hollow day. Growing up my dad served in world war ii, in the navy, and people were called to serve and then we had korea, vietnam and the people serving today. So we can never forget and we can never give them enough thanks what theyve done for this nation. One of the things they fought for is for our right, our freedom to have free and fair elections. So that is at the end of day what we really need to be mindful, particularly of our office as we work finishing up and closing out the election we just had. Also want to do, give a heartfelt thanks to the minute women who are standing with me here today. These are election of directors from across georgia. They represent large counties, small cans, diverse counties and just all over
[background sounds] [background sounds] good morning, everyone. Today is november 11. Before i get started talking about what we are here today, id like to give a heartfelt prayer of thanksgiving to all of those that gave their lives to this country, all those people are continue to serve. This is a special day. This is a hollow day. Growing up my dad served in world war ii, in the navy, and people were called to serve and then we had korea, vietnam and the people serving today. So we can never forget and we can never give them enough thanks what theyve done for this nation. One of the things they fought for is for our right, our freedom to have free and fair elections. So that is at the end of day what we really need to be mindful, particularly of our office as we work finishing up and closing out the election we just had. Also want to do, give a heartfelt thanks to the minute women who are standing with me here today. These are election of directors from across georgia. They represen
Day. Is a hallow growing up, my dad served in world war ii, in the navy, and people were called to serve and then we had korea, vietnam and the people serving today. So we can never forget and we can never give them enough thanks for what they have done for this nation. One of the things they fought for is for our right, our freedom to have free and fair elections. So that is at the end of day what we really need to be mindful, particularly in our office as we work finishing up , and closing out the election we just had a. Also want to do, give a heartfelt thanks to the minute standing with me here today. These are election of directors from across georgia. They represent large counties, small counties, diverse counties and just all over the state of georgia. They and their staff are the ones that do the hard work on the ground of making sure that all legal votes will be counted. Their job is hard. They executed their and they didies their job. This is a process. It is a process define
Welcome to bdcs last event before election day. I direct the elections podcast of the bipartisan policy center. We knew 20 20 would be exciting but for election nerds like me and those in idthis panel president ial election years are always eventful that we did not expect all this. According to the us elections project , as of this morning co more than 79 million ballots have been classed including 27 million early ballots and 82 million absentee ballots and 39 million absentee ballots outstanding and in some counties and states we are nearing the point when more ballots were cast before election day 2020 and during the entire 2016 Voting Period land it means this will be the First National election when more than half of the balance were cast prior to election day t. This shift occurred during a once in a century pandemic forcing officials to adapt. Election administrators atthe state and local levels deserve all our admiration. Since voting is happening right now and processing is ha