It will take six weeks to hand recount all the Georgia ballots as the governor ordered.

[skip fox]

Besides prevarications and lies they seem to be flooding the zone with methods to stall the process for as long as possible.

If electors can's cast their ballots on the 14th and the Senate doesn't get them by the 23rd, what happens?

[samnsara]

1. are they tied now? seems the new Veep gets to cast the deciding vote then? :)

[dragonlady]

2. It shouldn't take six weeks

In 2016 Wisconsin did a recount in 12 days. Given that Georgia has 16 electoral votes to Wisconsin's 10, it should take them roughly 19 days. Even if they work only on weekdays, that would take at most four weeks.

[spanone]

4. Biden won without GA

[Statistical]

5. Certification happens before recounts.

So final count done. GA certifies for Biden. Recount starts. Like in FL if they run out of time the certified results hold.

To be clear that is exactly what happened in FL. In initial count Bush won FL by 1,500 ballots. Results were certified. Recount began. Gore gained about 1,000 votes dropping Bush's lead to ~500. Republicans sued to stop the recount because the deadline for resolving disputes had passed. SCOTUS agreed ordered recounts stopped. The prior certified results held and Bush's electors were seated.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

7. They will probably do what they did to Franken in Minnesota

They made thousands of ridiculous challenges to ballots to make it look like Franken’s deficit rose from 700 to more than 5000. After those ridiculous challenges were adjudicated Franken picked up the 700 plus a couple hundred more to get him over the top.

This hand recount is a marketing ploy to muddy the waters in hopes they can get enough steam to let the legislature step in.

They’ve already made it clear they will challenge smudged postmarks.

[Retrograde]

6. Then they better get started

if they plan to meet the EC deadline of Dec. 14.

[liberal_mama]

8. Is this because of the 2 run off Senate elections? Because Joe doesn't need Georgia

to win the presidency. It would be nice to have those electoral votes, but not necessary.