2020
ELECTIONS
Trump requests recount in Georgia
"Last week's recount reaffirmed what we already
knew: Georgia voters selected Joe Biden to be their next president. ... Any
further recount will simply reaffirm Joe Biden’s victory in Georgia a third
time."
The request comes on the heels of a statewide audit of
the election results conducted last week.
By POLITICO
STAFF
11/21/2020
11:19 PM EST
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/11/21/trump-requests-recount-in-georgia-439049
President
Donald Trump’s campaign said it filed a petition for recount in Georgia, one
day after the state certified Joe Biden’s victory.
While Biden
won the state by more than 12,000 votes, under Georgia law Trump was entitled
to request a recount because the winning margin was less than 0.5%.
“President
Trump and his campaign continue to insist on an honest recount in Georgia,
which has to include signature matching and other vital safeguards. Without
signature matching, this recount would be a sham and again allow for illegal
votes to be counted,” the Trump campaign said in a statement late Saturday. “If
there is no signature matching, this would be as phony as the initial vote
count and recount. Let’s stop giving the people false results. There must be a
time when we stop counting illegal ballots. Hopefully it is coming soon.”
Unlike
Wisconsin, where the Trump campaign was required to pay $3 million for a
partial recount in two heavily Democratic counties, taxpayers must pay the cost
of a recount in Georgia.
The
requested recount follows a statewide audit of the Georgia results last week
that upheld Biden’s victory.
That audit,
which checked the accuracy of the machine count, found Biden ahead by just
under 12,300 votes in the state. During the audit process, four counties —
Floyd, Fayette, Douglas and Walton — found ballots that were not initially
reported, either because they were never initially counted or not uploaded
correctly. Those counties all re-uploaded their results, which shrank Biden’s
margin by around 1,400 votes, not enough to jeopardize his lead.
The recount
requested Saturday would be unlikely to change the outcome because it would
involve a machine re-tally of the results — and the audit confirmed the
accuracy of the machine counters.
In a
statement, Jaclyn Rothenberg, Georgia communications director for the Biden
campaign, said: "Last week's recount reaffirmed what we already knew:
Georgia voters selected Joe Biden to be their next president. ... Any further
recount will simply reaffirm Joe Biden’s victory in Georgia a third time."
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