Georgia Election Official: ‘We Are Going to Find That People Did Illegally Vote’

Vote-counting efforts in the state to be finished Tuesday or Wednesday

An election inspector looks at an absentee ballot as vote counting in the general election continues at State Farm Arena in Atlanta, Ga., on Nov. 4, 2020. Brynn Anderson/AP Photo

Georgia’s vote-counting efforts will be done either on Tuesday or Wednesday, and the state is headed to a likely recount, said an official with Georgia’s secretary of state office.

Gabriel Sterling, a spokesman for the office, said in a news conference on Monday that 47 out of 112 counties have certified their election results. All counties’ results have to be certified by Friday, Nov. 13, and after that, the state will have to certify its results by Nov. 20, according to state law.