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By Allan Smith
Many people, including Democratic Senator Nikema Williams, were arrested Tuesday during a protest held in the Georgia Capitol Building in Atlanta, where slogans "count every vote" broke out among the protesters , announced the forces of order.
The protesters demanded that the counted ballots not counted from last week's midterm elections be taken into account, as the run for governorship between Republican Brian Kemp and Democrat Stacey Abrams remains too tight. Kemp holds an advance on Abrams of less than 58,000 votes as of Tuesday.
The Georgia State Patrol told NBC News Tuesday that 15 protesters had been arrested for unlawfully disrupting "the orderly conduct of official business". A state patrol said the protesters had been taken to Fulton County Jail.
Williams told the Washington Post that she was arrested "because I refused to leave the ground of this building where I am a senator," adding that the protest was peaceful.
As the fight between Abrams and Kemp continues one week after polling day, Georgian officials continue to compile ballots not counted during the race. Earlier on Tuesday, a federal judge ordered Georgia to protect itself against the abusive rejection of provisional ballots and wait until Friday to certify the election results.
Abrams hopes to reduce Kemp's lead to impose a mandatory recount or a run-off – the higher of the two hurdles.
The law of a state requires that a candidate obtains more than 50% of the votes to be able to win the victory, and Kemp currently holds 50.3% of the vote.
Abrams did not concede the race, despite pressure from Kemp, who declared victory.
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