Bulloch County moves on with its part in statewide election recount

Local election supervisor thanks all for support through difficult time

Bulloch County Elections and Voter Registration Supervisor Pat Jones, far right, oversees pairs of poll workers hand sorting and counting votes as the Presidential recount gets underway on Friday, Nov. 13. Nearly 30, 300 ballots were cast in Bulloch County. Bulloch County election workers completed their part in the state-ordered “audit” recount of presidential election results Wednesday morning, with the effect that President-Elect Joseph R. Biden picked up five votes, current President Donald J. Trump picked up one vote, and four qualified write-in candidates were credited with a total of 19 votes in Bulloch.

Bulloch County Elections and Voter Registration Supervisor Pat Jones, far right, oversees pairs of poll workers hand sorting and counting votes as the Presidential recount gets underway on Friday, Nov. 13. Nearly 30, 300 ballots were cast in Bulloch County. Bulloch County election workers completed their part in the state-ordered “audit” recount of presidential election results Wednesday morning, with the effect that President-Elect Joseph R. Biden picked up five votes, current President Donald J. Trump picked up one vote, and four qualified write-in candidates were credited with a total of 19 votes in Bulloch.

A crew of six experienced poll workers started sorting ballots into Biden and Trump stacks and counting them at 9 a.m. Friday. By 5 p.m., they had Bulloch County’s part in Georgia’s state-ordered hand recount of votes in the presidential race about half completed.