Georgia today begins the process of counting ballots there for a third time, just days after a hand audit of ballots confirmed President-elect Joe Biden is the winner there. The Trump campaign requested a recount Saturday, which like the audit will be open to the public, press, and party-designated observers if they want to watch. Georgia’s statewide voting system implementation manager Gabriel Sterling tells ABC News he doesn’t anticipate a change in the outcome.
President Trump is also appealing a federal judge’s dismissal of his campaign’s effort to block the certification of votes in Pennsylvania, which Biden also won. The president and other plaintiffs filed notice of appeal Sunday, a day after the judge, a former Pennsylvania Republican Party official, issued a scathing decision, dismissing claims of widespread irregularities with mail-in ballots. The decision declares in part that the president had asked the court to disenfranchise almost seven million voters, with claims that were “haphazardly stitched together,” and that in seeking such a “startling outcome,” a plaintiff could be expected to provide compelling legal arguments and “factual proof of rampant corruption.” The judge wrote, “That has not happened.”
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