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From the Atlanta Journal Constitution:
Election results in Georgia will come in faster than ever after polls close Tuesday night, giving the nation an early look at which way a critical swing state is leaning.
Soon after 8 p.m., early and absentee votes for president — roughly three-quarters of all votes — will be posted online and broadcast across the world. Then Election Day results will pour in, likely finishing before midnight.
The rapid results are required by a new state law that calls for all early votes and most absentee votes to be reported within an hour of polls closing.
Legislators mandated early results reporting to help address suspicions about ballots being counted in the dead of night, giving rise to the kind of conspiracy theories seen during the 2020 election.
This year, Georgia is poised to become one of the quickest-counting states in the nation. But that doesn’t necessarily mean voters will know whether Vice President Kamala Harris or former President Donald Trump won on election night.
If margins are within a few thousand votes, Georgia’s choice for president won’t be clear until all votes are counted, including last-minute ballots from military service members, overseas citizens, provisional voters and absentee voters whose ballots are received on Election Day.
“We’re going to have the results so much quicker,” Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger said. “We don’t think you’re going to have to be up to 3 or 4 o’clock in the morning. We think that’s a good thing.”
Four years ago, Trump declared victory around 2:30 a.m. on election night, long before all votes had been counted. The following Saturday, national news agencies called the race for Joe Biden. He officially won Georgia six days later.
This time, even in a close race, the outcome in Georgia is likely to be known by a Friday deadline to verify missing voter information and receive overseas ballots — and possibly on election night if a candidate builds an insurmountable advantage.
A lead of at least 10,000 votes might be too large for a trailing candidate to overcome, simply because there won’t be that many ballots left to count. Election officials expect a total turnout of about 5 million voters.
“Reporting early is a fantastic change. We’ve all learned when there’s a vacuum of time, somebody’s going to fill that with assumptions or theories of why it’s taking so long,” said Jennifer Morelli, CEO of the Elections Group, an elections consulting organization. “If the margin is really tight and every vote is going to matter, then we need to wait.”
Under a new Georgia law, within an hour after polls close on election night, all in-person early votes and all absentees returned by Monday must be publicly reported. Then ballots cast on Election Day will be counted nonstop until each county is done, says a 2021 state election law.
“We’re making sure we have everything in place to meet those deadlines,” Fulton County Election Director Nadine Williams said. “We definitely want to meet those goals.”
Results on election night are unofficial, and county election boards will certify vote totals one week after Election Day, on Nov. 12, after all votes are counted.
Overseas and military ballots will be counted if they’re postmarked by Election Day and returned to election offices before 5 p.m. on Nov. 8. Absentee ballots must be received by election offices before polls close on Election Day.
During the 2020 election, Georgia’s results came in more slowly, in large part because of a record number of absentee ballots cast during the pandemic — 26% of the total turnout.
Georgia reported nearly 80% of all votes by midnight on election night in 2020, putting it in the middle of the pack nationwide, said Charles Stewart III, a political science professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. It took two more days before 99% of the state’s votes were counted.
This year, in-person early votes are expected to account for about 70% of the turnout, and those votes will be reported an hour after polls close. Absentee ballots will make up roughly 5% of the turnout, and most of them will be reported at the same time.
Election results in Georgia will come in faster than ever after polls close Tuesday night, giving the nation an early look at which way a critical swing state is leaning.
Soon after 8 p.m., early and absentee votes for president — roughly three-quarters of all votes — will be posted online and broadcast across the world. Then Election Day results will pour in, likely finishing before midnight.
The rapid results are required by a new state law that calls for all early votes and most absentee votes to be reported within an hour of polls closing.
Legislators mandated early results reporting to help address suspicions about ballots being counted in the dead of night, giving rise to the kind of conspiracy theories seen during the 2020 election.
This year, Georgia is poised to become one of the quickest-counting states in the nation. But that doesn’t necessarily mean voters will know whether Vice President Kamala Harris or former President Donald Trump won on election night.
If margins are within a few thousand votes, Georgia’s choice for president won’t be clear until all votes are counted, including last-minute ballots from military service members, overseas citizens, provisional voters and absentee voters whose ballots are received on Election Day.
“We’re going to have the results so much quicker,” Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger said. “We don’t think you’re going to have to be up to 3 or 4 o’clock in the morning. We think that’s a good thing.”
Four years ago, Trump declared victory around 2:30 a.m. on election night, long before all votes had been counted. The following Saturday, national news agencies called the race for Joe Biden. He officially won Georgia six days later.
This time, even in a close race, the outcome in Georgia is likely to be known by a Friday deadline to verify missing voter information and receive overseas ballots — and possibly on election night if a candidate builds an insurmountable advantage.
A lead of at least 10,000 votes might be too large for a trailing candidate to overcome, simply because there won’t be that many ballots left to count. Election officials expect a total turnout of about 5 million voters.
“Reporting early is a fantastic change. We’ve all learned when there’s a vacuum of time, somebody’s going to fill that with assumptions or theories of why it’s taking so long,” said Jennifer Morelli, CEO of the Elections Group, an elections consulting organization. “If the margin is really tight and every vote is going to matter, then we need to wait.”
Under a new Georgia law, within an hour after polls close on election night, all in-person early votes and all absentees returned by Monday must be publicly reported. Then ballots cast on Election Day will be counted nonstop until each county is done, says a 2021 state election law.
“We’re making sure we have everything in place to meet those deadlines,” Fulton County Election Director Nadine Williams said. “We definitely want to meet those goals.”
Results on election night are unofficial, and county election boards will certify vote totals one week after Election Day, on Nov. 12, after all votes are counted.
Overseas and military ballots will be counted if they’re postmarked by Election Day and returned to election offices before 5 p.m. on Nov. 8. Absentee ballots must be received by election offices before polls close on Election Day.
During the 2020 election, Georgia’s results came in more slowly, in large part because of a record number of absentee ballots cast during the pandemic — 26% of the total turnout.
Georgia reported nearly 80% of all votes by midnight on election night in 2020, putting it in the middle of the pack nationwide, said Charles Stewart III, a political science professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. It took two more days before 99% of the state’s votes were counted.
This year, in-person early votes are expected to account for about 70% of the turnout, and those votes will be reported an hour after polls close. Absentee ballots will make up roughly 5% of the turnout, and most of them will be reported at the same time.
