Cristian Carlos. Peninsula 360 Press [P360P].
With an advance of 99% of votes counted, where the candidate for the presidency of the United States for the Democratic Party, Joe Biden surpassed his Republican counterpart, Donald Trump, this morning by only 1,579 votes, the secretary of state of Georgia, Brad Raffensperger, announced to the media that it is necessary to restart the counting of the ballots.
In the early hours of this Friday morning, November 6, the state of Georgia turned blue, as Biden had taken away from Trump the state of Georgia with 16 electoral votes. Had he continued a clear upward trend for the Democrat, he would have been only 1 electoral vote away from winning the race.
This situation reverses speculation that Joe Biden could reach 269 electoral votes at the end of the vote count in Georgia's polls, keeping Biden with 253 electoral votes out of 270 to be declared the winner in the presidential election.
"By 10 a.m. local time, we were missing the 5,500 vote count in Gwinnett, Floyd, Cherokee and DeKalb counties, and the Army voters have yet to arrive," Raffensperger announced. "The margin is so narrow between one candidate and the other that there will surely be a recount in Georgia. We know that the recount has implications not only for our state, but for the entire nation.
He recalled that in this election process, mainly in the state of Georgia, "the stakes are high as there is a heated debate on both sides," referring to both Trump and Biden; however, he stressed that he will not allow those clashes to distract his work from counting the votes and then declaring a winner. "We will defend the integrity of our electoral process with all our might," he said.
The Secretary of State of Georgia stressed that the electoral process is open to public opinion as well as transparent. "If any public figure dares to question it, we will use any procedure to defend the integrity of every person's vote in Georgia," he said.
Subsequently, Gabriel Sterling, head of Georgia's counting system, admitted an error in the counting of the postal votes, which were added to the initial vote count on November 3. He said Georgia will provide election results "by the end of this weekend.
