Georgia audit to trigger hand recount of presidential vote
ATLANTA โ Georgia election officials have announced an audit of presidential election results that will trigger a full hand recount. President-elect Joe Biden leads President Donald Trump by about 14,000 votes out of nearly 5 million votes counted in the state. For the hand recount, election officers will work with the paper ballots in batches, dividing them into piles for each candidate. After results from the hand recount are certified, the losing campaign can then request another recount, which will be performed by machine, Raffensperger said. There is no mandatory recount law in Georgia, but state law provides that option to a trailing candidate if the margin is less than 0.5 percentage points.