Georgia recounted, with the secretary of state saying his Fellow Republicans "let me find a way to throw away the legitimate votes."

Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, a Republican, said Nov. 16 that he had come under increasing pressure in recent days from fellow Republicans, including Senator Lindsey O. Graham. He said the men questioned the validity of the legally cast absentee vote in hopes of reversing Trump's feeble defeat in the state.

In an interview about many issues in the election, Ravensperger expressed outrage at a string of baseless allegations made by Trump and his allies about the honesty of the election results in Georgia — including their claim that Dominion Voting Systems, a maker of voting machines used in the state, is a "leftist" company with ties to Venezuela that it has left thousands of Trump votes out of the count, according to the Washington Post.

Ravensperger said Senator Graham also asked him once during a conversation about the state's signature matching laws and "whether political bias would prompt polling workers to accept ballot papers that don't match their signatures." Graham also asked Ravensperger "whether he has the right to throw away all mail-in ballots in counties where non-matching signature rates are found to be high." Ravensperger said he was shocked that Graham appeared to be suggesting that he find a way to discard the legitimately cast votes.

Graham confirmed the conversation to reporters on Capitol Hill, but said it was "ridiculous" to say he pressured Ravensperger to drop his legitimate absentee vote. Graham said he just wanted to know more about the process of verifying signatures because what happens in Georgia "affects the whole country."

Georgia is laboriously recounting about 5 million votes by hand. Biden leads by 14,000 votes in preliminary statistics. Ravensperger said every allegation of fraud would be thoroughly investigated, but there is no credible evidence that the fraud occurred on a scale enough to influence the outcome of the election. Earlier, Ravensperger said it would have county officials cooperate as required by state law to complete a recount by Friday to confirm the results of the statewide election.

Ravensperger said he and his wife, Tricia, have received death threats in recent days, including a text message to him that read, "You'd better not screw up this recount." Your life depends on it. ”

Ravensperger said the recount would "affirm" the initial vote count. He said hand-arithmetic audits that began last week will also prove the accuracy of the machines; some counties have reported that their hand-arithmetic results are completely consistent with previously reported machine statistics.

According to U.S. media reports, Earley County and Bacon County in Georgia have completed the recount, and the results are not different from before. A total of 5217 people in Earley County voted, of which Trump received 53% of the vote and Biden received 47% of the vote; Bacon County had a total of 4668 votes, Trump received 87% of the vote, and Biden received 13% of the vote, which is exactly the same as the initial result.

However, Floyd County's recount found more than 2,600 uncalculated votes. The Capitol Hill and Atlanta Constitution newspaper said that Trump will get about 800 net votes. Gabriel Sterling, manager of the Georgia voting system, said the accident was man-made, not a device problem.

The ballots were not previously included in the state's initial statistics because they were not uploaded from the storage medium of the ballot scanner. The secretary's office said the ballot papers were likely to have been spotted and had asked the county's election director to resign. However, the US media pointed out that the increase in these votes does not seem to change the expected outcome of the Georgia election.