Secretary of State says two-count system was 99.999% effective in latest election

[R Street Institute’s] Marc Hyden said Georgia would be forced to count ballots by hand in order to follow the letter of Georgia’s new election law.

“If you want to know who wins an election before Thanksgiving, this is not for you. And if you have to wait this long to count all the votes, that’s going to undermine confidence in our electoral systems, and we do not want that,” Hyden said.