6 Jan 2021 Poll workers in DeKalb County, Georgia, are resorting to hand-scanning some 19,000 ballots after technical difficulties arose at the polling site, election officials said Wednesday. “Georgia’s voting system provides built-in safeguards, in the form of paper ballots, that allow us to quickly process ballots that are electronically cast,” Erica Hamilton, the director of DeKalb County Voter Registration and Elections, said in a statement. “These outstanding paper ballots are currently being scanned and the tabulation will be completed as quickly as possible, and in compliance with state guidelines,” the statement continued. A handful of counties that are Democrat strongholds, which U.S. Senate candidate Jon Ossoff says he expects to win, are still counting votes from the runoff election — which will determine the balance of power in the Senate and both branches of the legislature.