The Georgia presidential recount 101

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Everything you need to know about the Georgia presidential recount.... What will this recount look like?

A pair of election auditors will review each ballot and determine who received the vote. If they can’t come to a consensus, or if the choice is illegible, a superintendent who supervises the count will make a call. There are strict requirements on what items can be on the auditing table (no food or drinks allowed), what to do when an auditor needs to take a break, how to guard unattended ballots and more.

This will be a hand-review of paper ballots that were printed from electronic voting machines, as well as absentee ballots that arrived by mail.

The recount will be open to the public and streamed live in counties that have the ability to do so.

If you really want to nerd out, check out more information here and watch this video demonstration:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/11/12/georgia-vote-audit-recount/

[Sherman A1]

1. Cute video

Well done 👍

[KY_EnviroGuy]

2. Thanks, that's reassuring.

KY...........

[joshcryer]

3. They already threw out the illegible votes and cured all the votes.

This will change virtually nothing with regards to the tally. I would expect Biden to get a few more votes because of stronger scrutiny.

[DallasNE]

6. They Will Go Through The Curing Process Again

But no statewide lead has resulted in a different candidate being declared the winner where the lead was larger than roughly 275 votes. The margin is currently outside the .25% margin generally used for an automatic recount meaning the candidate requests and pays for the recount but that rule is being bypassed this time. Because Georgia is a pretty large State the margin could be slightly greater than 275 but certainly not greater than 500 so this is really a big waste of time since the margin is just over 15,000.

[BComplex]

4. Are they going to count down-ballot elections, too, or is this only for president?

[CottonBear]

5. They are only counting the presidential vote. NT