DeKalb County reports ‘technical issues’ with 19,000 votes left to count

A heavily Democratic county in Georgia said Wednesday morning that it was having technical issues with thousands of ballots in the razor-close U.S. Senate runoffs.

DeKalb County, a largely Black suburb of Atlanta, says its remaining 19,000 ballots will have to be manually scanned.

“Due to technical issues, the remaining 19,000 ballots must be manually scanned in order to be tabulated and added to the total vote count,” Erica Hamilton, the county’s voter registration and elections director, said in a statement.

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