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Georgia recount complete, affirms Biden win: local officials
WASHINGTON, Nov 20, 2020 (BSS/AFP) – The US state of Georgia has completed
a manual recount of all the ballots cast there in the presidential election,
and the results confirm Joe Biden’s win in the state, a local official
announced Thursday.
“The audit confirmed that the original machine count accurately portrayed
the winner of the election,” a statement posted on the website of Georgia
secretary of state Brad Raffensperger said.
The confirmation makes Biden the first Democratic presidential candidate to
win the southern US state in almost three decades, despite his rival Donald
Trump’s claims of fraud.
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