How do we find out for sure if the 1.5 million missing votes in Georgia are true?

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There are rumors swimming around that 1.5 million early votes in Georgia's Atlanta area have "accidently" not been counted and a danger they may not be counted at all.

How do we find out if this rumor is true and if it is then how do we make them count the votes?

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1. kick

[Staph]

2. According to the AP, as of 3:38 AM EST,

The Associated Press held off calling Georgia for McCain because of outstanding absentee and early votes in the metro Atlanta counties of Fulton, Cobb and Gwinnett.

A record 2 million Georgians cast their ballots early, more than a third of the state's registered voters. Many counties were slow in tallying and reporting both early in-person and absentee mail-in votes. Each county counts its votes differently, but some bigger counties waited to tally their early voting figures until they racked up the rest of the votes.

Almost 600,000 voters cast early ballots in the big metro Atlanta counties of Fulton, DeKalb, Cobb and Gwinnett. Fulton County, which includes most of Atlanta, had about 40,000 of those votes still to count, as did Cobb. Gwinnett County had as many as 20,000 more ballots to count. DeKalb finished counties its ballots early Wednesday.

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Georgia's closely watched Senate race was also too close to call early Wednesday, with incumbent Republican Saxby Chambliss leading Democratic challenger Jim Martin. With a third-party candidate also on the ballot, Chambliss led but needs a majority to avoid a runoff.

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5iPFo_UMwjfq14RFUZ8HhT3YQWQ3QD948LOKG5

[FVZA_Colonel]

5. This could give the state to Obama.

To say nothing of the affect on Chamblis/Martin.

[thesubstanceofdreams]

3. It's not so many votes, but yes many votes still to be counted

Some counties count early votes only after all election day precints. These includes some pro-Obama counties. But the details remain fuzzy. At least it should be enough to force a runoff in the senate race.

[musicblind]

6. FANTASTIC!

WTF isn't CNN talking about this. Why are they just repeating the same shit over and over and not talking about something like this. Or talking about why the hell Stevens is doing so well in Alaska... or even announcing when they called Montana.

No. All they do is go on and on and on with useless small talk.

[One Taste]

4. chicago tribune

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/politics/sns-ap-georgia-election,0,5618129.story

ATLANTA (AP) _ Although John McCain already conceded the presidency to Barack Obama, reliably Republican Georgia had yet to tally some 100,000 votes from heavily populated counties, complicating the process of awarding the state's 15 electoral votes.

The Associated Press held off calling Georgia for McCain because of outstanding absentee and early votes in the metro Atlanta counties of Fulton, Cobb and Gwinnett.

A record 2 million Georgians cast their ballots early, more than a third of the state's registered voters.

[pam4water]

7. Wasn't the prediction Obama was going to win in Georgia?

[mb7588a]

8. There were 3.3 million votes cast in 2004 in Georgia.

http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2004/pages/results/states/GA/P/00/

So far, 3.7 million have been counted in 2008.

Hard to tell anything from this comparison, but I'd guess we're still missing quite a few votes. Maybe around 200k?

[mb7588a]

9. it's not enough to flip the result to Barack,

but it might be enough to force a runoff.

[sohndrsmith]

10. This is EXTREMELY important in regards to the sanctity of free and fair elections, but

Obama has been elected President by a significant margin and that isn't going to change.

That certainly doesn't mean that the GA votes (whether missing or not yet counted) don't matter - not even remotely. This should matter to all of us. There is no reason why we can't have a voting system that works properly for everyone - always. It's the one and only embarrassment we can take responsibility, as a nation, for re this election. There's no excuse for the lack of organization and confidence in our voting process...