Republican Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger said the "numbers don't lie" and Joe Biden narrowly won Georgia, while also announcing some legislative priorities to improve the voting system next year.
Fox News and The Associated Press, which NPR relies on, were the earliest to call Arizona for Biden. Other networks didn't follow for days, as Biden's lead shrank dramatically and some doubted the AP.
Georgia counties are counting the final ballots as part of an unprecedented full hand recount risk-limiting audit of the presidential race. The process uncovered a handful of mistakes county elections officials should have caught otherwise, but the outcome should remain the same.
The secretary of state's office said the risk-limiting audit discovered Fayette County failed to tabulate about 2,750 votes from a memory card, bringing the overall advantage for Joe Biden to just under 13,000.
This episode of Battleground: Ballot Box asks the question: Why have thousands of workers across the state been hand counting nearly five million pieces of paper for several days? And why might they have to do something similar again soon?
Monday on Political Rewind: Counties across Georgia will finish their audits of ballots cast in the November presidential election. Fifty counties, including DeKalb and Fulton counties, have finished their recounts so far. Our panel of experts and insiders takes a look at the latest results from that process and looks ahead to what comes next.
It's been a week since polls closed in Georgia, and it may be weeks until we officially know the winner in the presidential race. On this episode of Battleground: Ballot Box, we take a look at what to expect as the state braces for a recount, and voters prepare for two U.S. Senate runoff races
On the second day after polls closed in Georgia, less than 5% of the state's record 1.3 million absentee-by-mail votes cast in the election still needed to be processed and tabulated, with President Trump's slim lead growing tighter by the hour.
The path to victory in Georgia looks to be a narrow one as counties continue to process a few hundred thousand absentee ballots in a tight race for the White House and U.S. Senate.
Monday on Political Rewind: It’s the final day before Election Day. The past week saw several big names in national politics make campaign stops in Georgia, including President Donald Trump — further proof that the road to the White House leads through the Peach State.
Former President Barack Obama visits Atlanta today to boost Joe Biden and Democratic senatorial candidates Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock. Our panel discusses the tight races for Georgia's two Senate seats.
Nearly four million Georgians have already cast their ballots through absentee and early in-person voting, and more than half of the state’s registered voters have already voted.
On the last day of in-person early voting, Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger said Georgians should expect longer lines from around 2 million voters showing up on Election Day, adding to a record-setting turnout so far this year.
Wednesday on Political Rewind: The COVID-19 pandemic continues to challenge the nation’s public health efforts as infection rates spike in some counties. With the virus on the minds of voters, the government’s public health response is a top issue on the campaign trail just days before Election Day.
Our panel of insiders and experts break down the latest on the pandemic.
On this episode of Battleground: Ballot Box, we hear from ProPublica's Jessica Huseman about the best ways to guard against election misinformation in the final days of the 2020 campaign.
Cyber experts told the Department of Homeland Security in July that voter registration systems in California and Florida could be vulnerable to a hack, a closely-held report obtained by NPR reveals.