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Nov. 19 (UPI) — Georgia announced Thursday that its manual recount of ballots reaffirmed President-elect Joe Biden as the first Democrat to win the state in nearly 30 years.

Results Of Georgia Recount 2020

2020 elections Georgia’s chief election official announces hand recount of presidential results Joe Biden leads Donald Trump by 14,111 votes out of nearly 5 million cast. Georgia Secretary of State. The result of the six-day hand recount of the state's 5 million ballots had been widely expected, despite baseless allegations from Trump and his allies that Georgia's vote tallies were suspect.

The audit results showed Biden won the state with 2,475,141 votes to President Donald Trump’s 2,462,857, a 12,284-vote margin. Under the initial count, Biden won by a 12,780 margin, giving Trump a gain of 496 votes in the recount.

Most electoral recounts typically vary by a few hundred votes, experts say.

“Georgia’s historic first statewide audit reaffirmed that the state’s new secure paper ballot voting system accurately counted and reported results,” Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger said. “This is a credit to the hard work of our county and local elections officials who moved quickly to undertake and complete such a momentous task in a short period of time.”

Raffensperger ordered the recount last week, saying it was necessary because the margin between Biden and Trump was less than a half-percent.

Results Of Georgia Recount For President

Close to 5 million Georgians voted in the 2020 election.

Included in the new tally were about 5,800 uncounted votes that were discovered on memory cards in a few counties — about 3,600 for Trump and 2,200 for Biden.

“I don’t believe at the end of the day it will change the total results,” Raffensperger told CNN on Wednesday, adding that no evidence of voter fraud has been uncovered.

Biden was projected as the winner in Georgia by most major news outlets. He is the first Democrat to win in the state since then-candidate Bill Clinton in 1992. The state awards 16 electoral votes.

State law calls for Raffensperger to certify the election results by Friday. Once he does so, the certified results will be sent to Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp for his signature. The Trump campaign can then request a machine recount of the ballots using high-capacity scanners.

The announcement came as judges in three states rejected lawsuits filed by the Trump campaign and the Republican Party while Trump’s re-election campaign also rescinded a case in Michigan.

The suits are part of a litigious effort by the Trump campaign to challenge election results in the battleground states of Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Georgia, Nevada and Arizona. Many have been dismissed or withdrawn.

Repeated claims of fraud by the campaign have been consistently refuted by experts and election officials, many of whom say they are a clear and direct threat to American democracy.

“There’s nothing inherently legitimate about filing these lawsuits,” Harvard University law professor Nicholas Stephanopoulos told the Harvard Crimson Thursday. “There’s simply no evidence to support the allegations of fraud, non-compliance with state law, faulty software or glitches, etc.”

“A fair number of lawsuits are frivolous, in the quite technical sense that it would [be] appropriate for a judge to impose sanctions such as fines on the [attorneys] who filed them,” added Harvard Professor Emeritus Mark Tushnet.

What is the status of Georgia election recounts?

Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger joins 'The Daily Briefing' with the latest.

More than 2,600 ballots in Georgia’s Floyd County that have not been tallied were recently found during a recount in the state for the 2020 presidential election, according to reports.

Georgia’s Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger blamed the problem on Floyd County election officials failing to upload votes from a memory card in a ballot-scanning machine.

Georgia began recounting its nearly 5 million ballots by hand on Friday after President Donald Trump and the Republican Party requested a statewide audit.

Cobb County Election officials handle ballots during an audit, Monday, Nov. 16, 2020, in Marietta, Ga. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart)

The 2,600 previously uncounted ballots in the county marked the most significant issue so far uncovered in the recount process. Floyd County Republican Party chair Luke Martin called the mishap “concerning” but insisted that it “doesn’t appear to be a widespread issue.”

“I’m glad the audit revealed it, and it’s important that all votes are counted,” Martin told the Atlanta-Journal Constitution.

Other counties so far have not found uncounted ballots, with recount figures closely matching their original numbers, Raffensperger said.

Though President Trump has decried alleged voter fraud, the accounted ballots will likely do little to close the 14,000-vote gap with President-Elect Joe Biden. If Biden does emerge victorious, he will have clinched the Peach State's 16 electoral votes -- flipping a historically-red southern battleground.

Gabriel Sterling of the Secretary of State’s office told WSB-TV that the newly discovered ballots will hand Trump an additional 800 votes – which still leaves Biden in the lead.

At a Monday evening news conference, Sterling called for Floyd County’s elections director to step down.

“The secretary of, since this was such an amazing blunder and they had issues in August, would like to see that elections director in Floyd County step down from his position,” Sterling said.

Fox News reached out to the Floyd County Board of Elections and Voter Registration for comment but did not hear back.

The states' 159 counties and thousands of county and poll workers have a deadline of Wednesday, Nov. 18 at midnight to finish the recount.

Fox News' Julia Musto contributed to this report.