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Where Georgia’s Hand Recount Differed From the Initial Tally, by County


Initial countAudit countDifference
Joseph R. Biden Jr2,473,3832,475,141+1,758
Donald J. Trump2,459,8252,462,857+3,032
MarginBiden +0.27Biden +0.25

On Thursday, Georgia’s 159 counties finalized a hand recount, technically an audit, of the five million ballots cast in the election, reaffirming Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s victory but reducing his lead by more than 1,200 votes.

Georgia’s secretary of state, Brad Raffensperger, a Republican, had ordered the manual audit as part of a new state law to ensure the accuracy of voting machines by comparing paper ballot counts with machine tallies. This was not an official recount, though the Trump campaign can choose to request one after the state’s results are certified this week, as the vote margin between Mr. Biden and President Trump is below 0.5 percentage points.

In many counties, officials conducting the audit found zero or single-digit differences in their counts, and they will not change their original results for the state certification process. Yet at least four counties — Douglas, Fayette, Floyd and Walton — discovered missed ballots and will add these to their original counts.

In Douglas, Fayette and Walton Counties, the counting of paper ballots revealed that election workers had undercounted votes after missing memory cards, which held machine-cast votes. New voting machines adopted by the state in 2019 allow voters to use touchscreens to print ballots. The voters then verify the ballots and formally cast them by scanning, resulting in a paper record and a machine tally.

Floyd County officials discovered about 2,400 ballots that election workers neglected to rescan after a scanner failed and results could not be retrieved from memory cards. Officials attributed the error to “gross incompetence” on the part of the county’s elections director.

Despite the errors in these four counties, election officials have said that there are no signs of voter fraud and that the new system is working as intended.

“These people are operating in it under the highest level of stress, in the most contentious election in their work life in the United States and in Georgia. So for the most part they are doing a really good job on this,” said Gabriel Sterling, Georgia’s statewide voting system implementation manager.

County-by-county counts

Audit count
BidenTrumpNet Gain
DeKalb308,76958,438D+560
votes
Cobb221,816165,114D+315
votes
Dougherty24,65610,412D+117
votes
Henry73,35948,153D+117
votes
Bartow12,09937,615D+66
votes
Chatham78,31653,248D+51
votes
Houston32,26241,520D+44
votes
Jones4,8969,940D+33
votes
Richmond59,14226,767D+32
votes
Liberty13,1317,960D+31
votes
McDuffie4,1746,146D+29
votes
Early2,4512,709D+27
votes
Sumter6,3245,715D+23
votes
Walker5,77023,155D+20
votes
Calhoun1,264911D+16
votes
Coweta24,21951,494D+16
votes
Douglas42,81425,446D+10
votes
Twiggs2,0482,366D+8
votes
Irwin1,0123,131D+7
votes
Telfair1,4912,822D+7
votes
Long2,0373,526D+6
votes
Monroe4,38811,058D+6
votes
Washington4,7434,670D+6
votes
Morgan3,3578,227D+5
votes
Bryan6,73914,240D+4
votes
Bulloch11,24818,387D+4
votes
Worth2,3986,829D+4
votes
Murray2,30512,943D+3
votes
Pulaski1,2312,816D+3
votes
Tift5,32310,782D+3
votes
Candler1,2703,132D+2
votes
Charlton1,1053,419D+2
votes
Lincoln1,4313,173D+2
votes
Oglethorpe2,4375,592D+2
votes
Rabun1,9857,473D+2
votes
Wilkes2,1612,822D+2
votes
Colquitt4,18911,778D+1
vote
Dodge2,1725,843D+1
vote
Glascock1551,402D+1
vote
Johnson1,2222,849D+1
vote
Montgomery9802,960D+1
vote
Toombs2,9417,873D+1
vote
Troup11,58218,146D+1
vote
Floyd11,85328,687R+686
votes
Fulton381,179137,620R+345
votes
Gwinnett242,490167,361R+285
votes
Rockdale31,12013,129R+241
votes
Clayton95,23215,714R+145
votes
Bibb43,41226,617R+88
votes
Walton12,61237,858R+86
votes
Thomas8,69713,027R+84
votes
Clarke36,00614,482R+78
votes
Ware4,1749,902R+74
votes
Lowndes20,08325,727R+70
votes
Columbia29,19750,043R+69
votes
Forsyth42,15885,142R+65
votes
Hall25,06164,246R+46
votes
Wayne2,66110,001R+40
votes
Appling1,7856,570R+38
votes
Screven2,6443,936R+37
votes
Grady3,6017,049R+33
votes
Fayette33,11138,024R+26
votes
Newton29,78723,888R+26
votes
Glynn15,86825,630R+25
votes
Macon2,8491,799R+24
votes
Whitfield10,67725,666R+23
votes
Brantley6907,001R+19
votes
Jackson7,63929,507R+13
votes
Muscogee49,49330,025R+12
votes
Wilkinson2,0672,667R+11
votes
Cherokee42,78799,590R+10
votes
Paulding29,68154,512R+10
votes
Tattnall2,0536,055R+10
votes
Terrell2,3712,009R+10
votes
Camden7,96915,262R+9
votes
Effingham7,71323,359R+8
votes
Habersham3,55416,636R+8
votes
Franklin1,5899,072R+7
votes
Upson4,1998,613R+7
votes
Lamar2,6106,331R+6
votes
Lanier1,0162,512R+6
votes
Hancock2,9751,154R+5
votes
Laurens8,07114,496R+5
votes
Peach5,9266,513R+5
votes
Warren1,4661,168R+5
votes
Baldwin9,1398,906R+4
votes
Elbert2,8786,229R+4
votes
Fannin2,56812,170R+4
votes
Hart3,1559,466R+4
votes
McIntosh2,6104,018R+4
votes
Pickens2,81614,087R+4
votes
Heard8244,519R+3
votes
Jefferson4,0593,538R+3
votes
Oconee8,16016,596R+3
votes
Polk3,64713,581R+3
votes
Banks9317,796R+2
votes
Catoosa6,93125,168R+2
votes
Dooly1,9102,160R+2
votes
Gordon4,38319,406R+2
votes
Miller7472,066R+2
votes
Pierce1,0997,900R+2
votes
Stewart1,181802R+2
votes
Towns1,5496,385R+2
votes
Brooks2,7904,261R+1
vote
Burke5,2085,400R+1
vote
Butts3,2728,405R+1
vote
Crisp2,9894,991R+1
vote
Decatur4,7796,758R+1
vote
Emanuel2,8886,556R+1
vote
Harris5,45614,319R+1
vote
Jasper1,7605,822R+1
vote
Pike1,5049,127R+1
vote
Stephens2,3859,369R+1
vote
Taylor1,3882,420R+1
vote
Union2,80112,652R+1
vote
Webster639749R+1
vote
Wilcox8612,403R+1
vote
Carroll16,23837,476
Barrow10,45326,804
Spalding11,78418,057
Lee4,55812,007
Gilmer2,93213,429
Dawson2,48613,398
Lumpkin3,12612,163
Coffee4,51110,578
Madison3,41111,326
White2,41112,222
Haralson1,79212,331
Putnam3,4488,291
Greene4,0887,068
Meriwether4,2876,524
Chattooga1,8548,064
Mitchell3,9954,935
Berrien1,2696,419
Dade1,2616,066
Cook2,0594,900
Ben Hill2,3934,111
Crawford1,6154,428
Jeff Davis1,0284,695
Bleckley1,3114,328
Bacon6254,018
Evans1,3242,888
Seminole1,2562,613
Turner1,4102,349
Marion1,3112,275
Talbot2,1141,392
Jenkins1,2662,161
Atkinson8252,300
Treutlen9522,101
Randolph1,6711,391
Clinch7472,105
Wheeler6891,583
Schley4621,800
Chattahoochee667880
Baker652897
Echols1671,256
Clay790637
Quitman497604
Taliaferro561360


Source: Elections - nytimes.com

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