by Dave Williams | Capitol Beat News Service
ATLANTA – Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger Friday officially certified the results of this month’s presidential election in Georgia.
Official certification of President-elect Donald Trump’s win in the Peach State over Vice President Kamala Harris came after county election officials completed a hand count of more than 700,000 ballots statewide.
The risk-limiting audit found minor discrepancies in the totals for Trump and Harris but nothing that would change the results. Trump gained 11 more votes than he received from the machine count after the polls closed on Election Night, while Harris received six fewer votes.
“The votes were counted accurately, securely, and quickly,” Raffensperger said Friday. “This was the most secure election in Georgia’s history.”
With the results now certified, the next step will be certification of Georgia’s slate of presidential electors by Gov. Brian Kemp. Those electors will meet at the state Capitol Dec. 17 to certify the results they will send to Washington, D.C., where Congress will meet on Jan. 6 to count all of the states’ electoral votes.
Trump won 312 electoral votes in this month’s election, well above the 270 required to win the presidency. Harris totaled 226 electoral votes.
