Whereas most of the bigger, city counties are already reporting a big quantity of votes, Gabe Sterling, the chief working officer within the workplace of the Georgia Secretary of State, mentioned they’re nonetheless ready for a number of rural counties to report their tallies.
“The 4 largest most populous counties which kinda can swing the vote come what may by themselves are actually coming in fairly fast,” he instructed CNN Tuesday, however added that the race is so shut within the state, that the smaller counties actually matter.
“However it’s so shut, you recognize, these counties which have 10,000 votes, 4,000 votes — they usually’re going to go 80% for Walker. They will carry on coming in,” he added.
With the intention to add votes, ballot employees usually need to drive by way of the county to ship tallies, generally on reminiscence playing cards, Sterling mentioned, pointing to Fulton County for example, which is about 90 miles lengthy.
“We had a automotive accident with one automotive carrying one of many playing cards,” he instructed CNN. He mentioned each employees are okay they usually had been in a position to retrieve the voting data and get it to a county headquarters.
“That is the sort of stuff that occurs on Election Day as a result of you may have hundreds of individuals out there doing their jobs,” Sterling mentioned.
He mentioned the state noticed document turnout at the moment — together with a document variety of individuals each voting in-person and by absentee ballots in a runoff election.
However there’s nonetheless many extra ballots to rely, saying, “It’s going to be an extended night time”
