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The result of the US presidential election handed the battlefield state of Georgia to Joe Biden will be certified after counties met a deadline for recount on Wednesday, a Democratic campaign aide predicted.

“The current state as we understand it is that all 159 counties of Georgia will meet today’s midnight state deadline and have their results certified,” Biden campaign counsel Patrick Moore said in a call with the reporter. , Reuters and The Associated Press are reporting.

The manual recount of nearly 5 million votes resulted from an audit required by a new state law and was not in response to suspected problems with the state results or a request for an official recount. The law requires the audit to be performed before certified county findings can be certified by the state.

The deadline for counties to complete the audit is Wednesday at 11:59 pm, before Friday’s deadline for state certification. Gabriel Sterling, who oversaw the implementation of the new state voting system for the office of the secretary of state, said he expects counties to meet that deadline.

The hand count it aims to ensure that the state’s new electoral machines accurately tabulate votes and are not expected to alter the overall result, state election officials have repeatedly said.

Going into the tally, Democrat Joe Biden led Republican President Donald Trump by a margin of about 14,000 votes. Previously records countless discoveries in four counties Douglas, Fayette, Floyd and Walton during the hand count it will reduce that margin to about 12,800, Sterling said.

Once the results are certified, if the margin between candidates remains within 0.5%, the losing campaign may require a recount. This would be done using scanners that read and calculate votes and would be paid by the counties, Sterling said.

A law passed last year requires an audit but let the secretary of state choose the breed to check. Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger said he chose the presidential race because of its importance and narrow margin. Because of the close results, he said, a full-hand recount would be required to complete the audit.

In the two weeks following the election, Raffensperger was attacked by fellow Republicans, from the president down.