InsiderAdvantage has compiled the total votes– updated Saturday– garnered by Georgia gubernatorial GOP candidate Brian Kemp and Democrat Stacey Abrams:
Total Votes Reported: 3,924,658
Kemp: 1,975,162 (50.33%)
Abrams: 1,912,383 (48.73%)
Metz: 37,113 (.95%)
The Kemp Margin is +62,779 votes
Consider these other statistics:
Counties Certifying their Vote: 89
Counties Remaining to Certify: 70
Counties Reporting Total Provisional Results: 118
Original Provisional Ballots in those 118 Counties: 4,472
Total Provisional Ballots Accepted in those 118 Counties: 2,138
Percentage of Provisional Ballots Deemed Ineligible by County Officials Thus Far: 52%
In the counties that have reported official provisional numbers on the Secretary of State’s website thus far, Abrams has only a net 90-vote margin on Kemp.
Counties Not Yet Reporting Provisional Ballot Results: 41
Even with these counties not yet reporting final provisional vote results, several have already reported their ineligible provisional ballot numbers. For example: Fulton County (1,556 of 3,722), DeKalb County (646 of 3,000), Chatham County (140 of 329), and Henry County (172 of 339). By the way, Fulton caught three non-citizens casting provisional ballots and hundreds more from people who gave addresses outside the county.
Also, consider this: Maximum Number of eligible provisional votes outstanding in those 41 counties — 14,204
Maximum Possible Remaining Outstanding Military Absentee Ballots in Counties Not Yet Certified — 3,291
Total possible ballots remaining (all eligible provisional ballots + all possible military ballots) — 17,495
By the way, military ballots must have been received by 5 pm on Friday, November 9th. They are included in certified count from their respective county. If all 17,495 possible votes were verified and accepted, and were cast for Abrams, these would be the final results:
Kemp: 50.10% — 1,975,162 (current total)
Abrams: 48.95% — 1,929,878 (adding all 17,495 possible outstanding ballots)
Metz: .95% – 37,113
Total: 3,942,153
Kemp Margin: +45,284
In the words of a Kemp press release: “So even if Abrams received every possible outstanding ballot there would be no runoff and no recount. This election is over. Brian Kemp is Governor-Elect of Georgia.”
