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Democrat Joe Biden is headed toward victory in Georgia in the 2020 US presidential election after the state's second recount, Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger said on Wednesday, rejecting false claims of fraud in the race.
"It looks like Vice-President Biden will be carrying Georgia, and he is our president-elect," Raffensperger, a Republican, said at a news conference after noting that no substantial changes have been seen in a second recount demanded by Republican President Donald Trump's campaign.
County election officials have until noon on Friday to finalise their vote counts, said Gabriel Sterling, who manages the Southern state's voting systems and also appeared at the news conference.
Raffensperger said multiple investigations in Georgia have found no evidence of widespread fraud, as alleged by Trump.
Raffensperger, a Trump supporter, noted the findings so far in Georgia were in line with comments by Attorney General William Barr that the US Justice Department has found no evidence of widespread voter fraud.
Raffensperger sharply criticised Trump for fomenting false claims.
"Even after this office request that President Trump try and quell the violent rhetoric being born out of his continuing claims of winning the states where he obviously lost, he tweeted out 'expose the massive voter fraud in Georgia,'" Raffensperger said.
"This is exactly the kind of language that is at the base of a growing threat environment for election workers who are simply doing their jobs."
State officials in Georgia have launched new investigations into voter registration efforts before Jan. 5 run-off elections for the state's two US Senate seats, which will determine whether Democrats or Republicans control the upper chamber. Republicans currently control the Senate.
Raffensperger said officials are looking into whether voting rights groups were trying to register people who have moved out of state or are deceased.
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