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Election workers resumed counting votes Wednesday morning as they scanned hundreds of thousands of last-minute absentee ballots in Georgia's primary, leaving the final result of races&nbsp;.The time it takes to count so many paper ballots was expected in an election where a record number of Georgians — over 1.1 million — voted from home during the coronavirus pandemic.&gt;&gt;RESULTS:&nbsp;&gt;&gt;PHOTOS:&nbsp;But the uncertainty left voters and candidates waiting. It’s unclear whether counting would be completed Wednesday, but officials have warned the process could take a few days.After voters waited in&nbsp; Tuesday, most in-person votes cast on the state's new&nbsp; were counted late Tuesday night. Those votes, cast on printed-out paper ballots, were stored on optical scanning machines, making them easy to tabulate after polls closed.But opening, scanning and counting absentee ballots takes longer. Absentee ballots will be counted if they were received by election officials by 7 p.m. Tuesday. Those received late will be rejected.Voters whose absentee ballots are rejected will be contacted and given an opportunity to&nbsp;, such as missing information or mismatched signatures. Those votes would then be counted.None of metro Atlanta’s four core counties — Cobb, DeKalb, Fulton and Gwinnett — reported complete results Wednesday morning.Candidates won’t officially be declared as winners until election officials certify results. County election officials have 10 days to finalize their results, and then the secretary of state’s office has seven days after that to certify state results.Races in which no candidate received more than 50% of votes will head to&nbsp; to be held Aug. 11.About the AuthorEditors' PicksThe LatestFeatured© 2022 The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. All Rights Reserved. By using this website, you accept the terms of our , , , and understand your options regarding .

Election workers resumed counting votes Wednesday morning as they scanned hundreds of thousands of last-minute absentee ballots in Georgia's primary, leaving the final result of races&nbsp;.The time it takes to count so many paper ballots was expected in an election where a record number of Georgians — over 1.1 million — voted from home during the coronavirus pandemic.&gt;&gt;RESULTS:&nbsp;&gt;&gt;PHOTOS:&nbsp;But the uncertainty left voters and candidates waiting. It’s unclear whether counting would be completed Wednesday, but officials have warned the process could take a few days.After...

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