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  • Democrat Joe Biden edge closer to victory over Donald Trump for the US presidency on Thursday, as election officials continued to tally votes in the handful of states that will decide the outcome.

  • They have millions of unsolicited ballots being sent all over President Trump, who during a long and rancorous campaign attacked the integrity of the US voting system.

  • An alleged voting fraud without providing evidence filed lawsuits and called for a least one state recounts.

  • Some legal experts called the challenge is a long shot unlikely to affect the eventual outcome of the election.

  • Biden was leading in Nevada and Arizona and closing in on Trump in Pennsylvania and Georgia.

  • Georgia's voting system implementation manager Gabriel Sterling on Thursday said there were still some 60,000 ballots left to be counted and they were still being tallied with accuracy thes 159 elections directors and employees who are here to the job of protecting democracy.

  • These people are not involved in voter fraud.

  • Thes people are not involved in voter suppression.

  • I'm telling you, they're doing their jobs every day, it is hard and we are thankful to them for it.

  • We're gonna work with him to make sure that every legal, lawful ballot is counted.

  • Trump has to win the states where he is still ahead, including North Carolina plus either Arizona or Nevada to triumph and avoid becoming the first incumbent US president to lose a re election bid since fellow Republican George H.

  • W.

  • Bush in 1992.

  • The counting and court challenges set the stage for days, if not weeks of uncertainty before December 8th, the deadline to resolve election disputes.

Democrat Joe Biden edge closer to victory over Donald Trump for the US presidency on Thursday, as election officials continued to tally votes in the handful of states that will decide the outcome.

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