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All 159 counties in Georgia are due to begin their recount efforts at 9 a.m. on Tuesday, said Gabriel Sterling, director of voter implementation in the secretary of state’s office.

Counties must complete their recount by midnight on Wednesday, December 2.

“They are due to start tomorrow morning at 9 am,” Sterling said at a new conference. “But the start could also be if they organize and line up people because we want to make sure we have a lot of notice so that we can have the monitors and the refereeing teams, especially for the absent votes first.” because these are the ones most likely to require judgment. ”

Ballots cannot be contested by party monitors on site during this process. There will be a minimum of two monitors per game at each location where the recount takes place, according to Sterling. Large counties that have more than two scanners will have an additional monitor for each part for each additional scanner.

Sterling said this tally, according to Georgia’s code, will be the final certified version of the election results.

The Trump campaign demanded the recount on Saturday, which is their right under Georgian law because Joe Biden’s margin of victory is less than 0.5%. The recount will be funded by taxpayers and will be done in every county statewide using high-speed ballot scanners.

President-elect Biden, who was declared the winner last Friday when the state certified the results, has 12,670 votes or 0.2% ahead of President Trump in Georgia.