Georgia Senate runoffs: DeKalb County to manually scan 19,000 ballots due to technical issues
Poll workers in Georgia's DeKalb County will have to manually scan 19,000 ballots after the polling site experienced "technical issues," election officials said Wednesday. "Georgia's voting system provides built-in safeguards, in the form of paper ballots, that allow us to quickly process ballots that are electronically cast," Erica Hamilton, the director of DeKalb County Voter Registration and Elections, said in a statement. "These outstanding paper ballots are currently being scanned and the tabulation will be completed as quickly as possible and in compliance with state guidelines." A handful of counties -- many Democratic strongholds where Senate candidate Jon Ossoff says he is confident he will win -- are still tabulating votes from