The focus of for our office and for the county election officials, for now, remains on making sure every legal vote is counted and recorded accurately. As we are closing in on a final count, we can begin to look toward our next steps. With a margin that small, there will be a recount in georgia. Electionin our obviously goes far beyond georges borders. Georgias borders. The final tally in georgia has huge implications for the entire country. The stakes are high and emotions are high on all sides. We will not let those debates distract us from our work. We will get it right. We will defend the integrity of our elections. In some states, there are complaints about monitors not being allowed to watch the count. In georgia, this process is and will remain open and transparent to monitors. If any member of the public raises legitimate concerns, we will investigate those. We are committed to doing everything and anything to maintaining trust in our elections process for every georgian regard
If you support another candidate or perhaps you did not vote, 27488002 call 2027488002. As the vote rolled in from the suburbs of atlanta, biden now has a 1096 vote lead. While mr. Biden leads and the trending pattern of votes favors him, a major News Organization did not call georgias rates race over. Still outstanding are overseas and military votes that phrase a friday face a friday deadline to arrive by mail. The Atlanta Journalconstitution reporting ballots, norentee was it one of the newly minted democratic suburbs. It was clayton, the south metro county that is the bluest bastion in the state that provided the decisive votes. Were presented by john lewis, the late civil rights icon, who was one of the most vocal critics of President Trump. There is more to that story. Theis available to you at Atlanta Journalconstitution. If you go to the front pages of wall street journal, it highlights not only the events taking place in georgia with joe biden taking the lead there, but also t
Announcer on thursday, joe biden spoke in wilmington, isaware, and he said he confident that he and senator Kamala Harris will be declared the winners of the election once the results are in. Mr. Biden good afternoon, folks. Senator harris and i just completed briefings on both covid and the economic crisis facing this national this nation. We are reminded again of the severity of this pandemic. Cases are on the rise nationwide and we are nearing 240,000 deaths due to covid. Our hearts go out to each and every family who has lost a loved one to this terrible disease. In america, the vote is sacred. It is how people of this nation express their will. It is the will of the voters that chooses the president of the United States of america. So each ballot must be counted and that is what we are going to see going through now. That is how it should be. Democracy is sometimes messy. It sometimes requires a little patience as well. But that patience has been rewarded now for more than 240 yea
And we are in very good shape, but there is still some to count. They are working incredibly hard. They are going to keep counting into the evening. You know, stay tuned. So lets see. We have been reaching out. We have been very closely in touch with all 67 counties, making sure they are reporting on as regular a basis as possible. Now all of you, everybody around the country, around the state, are eagerly waiting, and i can tell you the counties are really taking their time making sure that every single voter in the commonwealth who has cast their ballot is having those ballots accurately and securely counted. So, as you know, we are going to keep counting. Military and overseas ballots are coming in. Those will continue to be accepted through next tuesday. There are obviously provisional ballots that will have to be counted as well after the initial round of ballots. And you know i think whatever the outcomes are, i can tell you that i am so proud to work with the 67 counties and Ele
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