The Board of Elections wrapped up their work on Monday night – ahead of schedule – for the hand recount and audit of the 2020 General Election ballots from November 3, and found no issues according to Elections Coordinator Brande Coggins.

“We completed our audit on Monday night, and are grateful for the help we received from volunteers to ensure that the results we reported on Election night are accurate and complete,” Coggins said. “With the conclusion of the audit and since we have found no problems, we can begin working on the run-off elections coming up in December.”

The process that began on Friday and concluded on Monday night after a weekend break for staff and volunteers at the Board of Elections counted all 17,423 ballots cast in the 2020 vote, and confirmed the results initially reported late on the night of November 3 when the results were released.

Officials now have a December 1 run-off in the Polk County Commission District 2 race to focus on, featuring Commissioner Linda Liles and Ricky Clark. The two got the most votes out of five candidates who were in the race in to see who would fill the rest of the time that Liles was appointed to serve in through the rest of this year, but not past December 31.

Meanwhile, the Atlanta Journal Constitution reported today that officials said earlier that there are no longer plans to make the manual recount the official tally in the presidential race.

Manual counting continues through Wednesday, though the state’s voting system manager Gabriel Sterling was reported by the AJC to explain that a review of state law concludes that the hand count ordered last week by Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger shouldn’t replace the machine count of scanned ballots.

He was quoted to say that the intent of the hand count was to verify the results and keep within the boundaries of state law.

The Atlanta paper also reported that despite a discrepancy found on Monday in Floyd County where 2,600 votes were found not to have been reported on Election Night did not make a big difference in the tally that President Donald Trump would have to make up to change the results of Georgia’s overall vote in the Presidential Election.

The results of the audit are expected following Wednesday night’s deadline.