‘Very Dedicated’: Election Workers Complete Largest Hand Count In Modern American History

Gwinnett County election workers finish the state-mandated audit.

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With a handful of exceptions, all of Georgia’s 159 counties completed a monumental hand tally of the state’s 5 million presidential ballots with little variation from the original numbers.

Many counties say credit is due to county election workers. The count was actually part of the state’s scheduled audit, to be completed before the state certifies its election results Friday.