Georgia’s nearly 5 million votes in the presidential race will be counted for a third time, as President Trump’s campaign has formally asked for a recount because his loss is within the legal margin for that request.
Of the 4,998,482 ballots cast in the race between Trump and President-elect Joe Biden, the president lost by 12,670 votes, or about 0.26 percentage points. State law allows a losing candidate within 0.5 percentage points to ask for a recount within two business days of certification.
While thousands of workers spent most of the last week hand-counting every vote as part of a newly required statewide risk-limiting audit, this recount will be different.
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