Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger says he’s confident that most of the votes cast in the state will be counted by the end of Tuesday night.
Raffensperger said that early voting ballots and absentee ballots that come in by the weekend will be handled no later than 8 p.m. ET on Election Night. He made it clear that all votes cast on Tuesday will be counted by the end of the night, which will make sure that the results are released on time.
CNN host Kate Bolduan asked: “Last cycle is when the results it‘s will be known or when the race could be called in Georgia, we were looking back, I think it was last cycle that CNN made the call that Joe Biden won Georgia. I think it was maybe 10 days after we knew it was days after the election. And there was a lot that went into that we know because of the extent of reviews that were required. When do you think we‘ll know the results in Georgia?”
“This, but I do know that all the ballots have been cast for this early vote. Absentee that have received this weekend all, we be talking to reported by no later than apm. The voting that happens on Tuesday, you‘re going to get all of that before the end of the night. May the county‘s the smaller ones protected? They will be done by 10 to 11:00 at the very latest, probably 930 to 10:00, and then the other larger counties. But we‘re looking that by the end of the night, every vote that has been cast that way we‘ll be reported and up on the board,” Raffensperger said.
Raffensperger added, “Don‘t think it will be waiting for is those overseas military ballots and the absentee ballots that had come in Monday, Tuesday, which then get tabulated you don‘t post-election and maybe during the day date, this takes a little bit longer to do that. And that‘s about 10,000 ballots outstanding. But the rest of it will all be up but before the end of the night so after the 2020 race.”
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An election expert who used to say that Vice President Kamala Harris would win by a huge margin now says that former President Donald Trump will win.
Thomas Miller, a data scientist who correctly predicted the outcome of the 2020 presidential election, had earlier backed Harris to win in 2024. In September, he told Newsweek that his model showed the Democrat would likely get more than 400 electoral votes.
Based on betting odds instead of polling data, the model now says that Trump is the favorite. Its most recent estimate is that the Republicans could win 345 Electoral College votes, Newsweek reported.
Newsweek has drawn up what a possible win for the former president with 345 Electoral College votes would look like. FiveThirtyEight says that in this case, he wins all the states where Harris has a lead of less than ten points, including the South and the Midwest.
The model first said that Trump would win by a small margin on October 7, when betting odds started to move in his favor.
Miller’s model puts betting odds ahead of survey data and uses what he calls “fundamentals,” or past election trends, to balance the data. This is something that most other models also do.
