Georgia's voting system implementation manager says they are counting 'every single legal vote'
Gabriel Sterling, who oversees the statewide voting system in Georgia, said election officials are still counting thousands of legal votes and they haven't seen any evidence of widespread irregularities.
"We've had reports of specific things, we sent investigators out looking for specific evidence and, the reality behind those, we always get those in every election -- it's a normal thing. We have not seen anything so widespread that it could potentially effect the outcomes," Sterling told ABC News chief anchor George Stephanopoulos in an interview Friday on "Good Morning America."
"The counties are being diligent, they are working hard, they are all exhausted. But we feel like they're doing a good job and treating everybody fairly," he added. "Our goal is to count and report every single legal vote."
Sterling said they expected vote counting to take days due to the nature of this election -- a surge in absentee ballots amid the coronavirus pandemic. There are 8,197 absentee ballots left to be counted across Georgia, as well as 8,899 military and overseas ballots that are still available to come in Friday, according to Sterling.
Biden currently leads Georgia by 1,096 votes, after overtaking Trump's edge in the Republican stronghold early Friday morning.
"When we know the outcome of this election, we're going to have an audit afterwards and we have a very good likelihood that its going to be within a half of a percentage," Sterling said. "Under our laws, whoever comes in second in this election [in Georgia], they can request a recount."
