MARIETTA, Ga. — By the time President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. was declared the winner of Georgia’s 16 electoral votes on Friday afternoon, hundreds of county poll workers across the state were several hours into the arduous slog of recounting nearly five million ballots by hand. Sitting several feet apart to account for social distancing, the workers began the extraordinary statewide effort, technically an audit, on Friday morning. They hunched over sheafs of ballots, recited the names, counted and restacked them in bins. Similar scenes unfolded in warehouse-like rooms across the state, and would continue until every ballot had been checked. “We’re pretty much living here right now,” said Deidre Holden, elections and voter registration supervisor in Paulding County, a suburban and rural area west of Atlanta.

Source: New York Times November 14, 2020 00:33 UTC