While every county in Georgia takes part in the massive, manual statewide recount of the presidential election in Georgia, many counties are offering livestreams to allow the public to observe the process.
This article will include links to watch for a number of metro Atlanta counties.
My colleague Mark Niesse wrote about how the recount will work. and that may be helpful in understanding what you are watching. There is no audio, and what you can generally see from the livestream is a fixed camera view. Election workers sit at tables in teams of two. For each ballot, both members of the team check and verify the voter’s choice for president. And then the ballot is put into a pile for that candidate. The process repeats.
After the ballots are sorted into stacks, the audit team will count up the votes for each candidate, write them on a form and return the ballots to their containers. Then those totals will be entered into laptops by different election workers at another table.
The recounts began Friday and must be completed by the end of Wednesday. Fulton and DeKalb counties have finished their counts.
The recount is open to the public. Anyone can watch from an observation area. Read more about the process.
Find the livestream for various metro Atlanta counties:
Gwinnett County - Additional county recount info
Cherokee County - No livestream reported. County recount info
Clayton County - No livestream reported. County recount info
Cobb County - No livestream reported. County recount info
DeKalb County finished its recount - Additional county recount info
Douglas County - No livestream reported. County recount info
Fayette County - No livestream reported. County recount info
Forsyth County - No livestream reported. County recount info
Fulton County finished its recount - Additional county recount info
Henry County - No livestream reported. County recount info
Rockdale County - No livestream reported. County recount info
Note: If you know of a metro county livestream not linked here, please email Brian O’Shea with the link.
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