ATLANTA - Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger defended the state’s elections system Friday, one day after President Donald Trump and his Republican supporters accused the secretary of state’s office of mishandling absentee ballots.

With more than 22,600 military and overseas absentee ballots as well as provisional ballots remaining to be counted as of late Friday, Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden had pulled ahead of Trump in Georgia by 4,235 votes. Biden had trailed the president in the Peach State from the time vote counting began after the polls closed on Tuesday night until the wee hours of Friday morning.

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