Vote audit confirms Biden win in Georgia, but found missing ballots (Ld)

By Arul Louis New York, Nov 20 : The US state of Georgia has completed an audit of the votes cast in the November 3 presidential election that confirmed Democrat Joe Biden as the winner by a razor-thin margin even after 5,771 ballots that had not been counted or not reported earlier showed up.
Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger announced the result of the audit on Thursday evening that showed Biden defeated President Donald Trump by 12,284 votes.
Biden was ahead by 0.25 per cent of the 4.94 million ballots cast in the state on November 3, and were hand-counted for the audit.
The state’s 16 electoral college votes were at stake.
Aftert the audit Biden’s lead was reduced by 1,375 votes when the 5,771 uncounted or misreported votes discovered during the audit were tallied.
“Georgia’s historic first statewide audit reaffirmed that the state’s new secure paper ballot voting system accurately counted and reported results,” Raffensperger said.