Georgia election official says this will be largest hand re-tally by audit in U.S. history 'Let me be perfectly clear on this. If it was 14,000 votes the other way, we would be doing the exact same thing.' Author: Jon Shirek Updated: 8:56 AM EST November 13, 2020 ATLANTA — On Friday, Georgia will start counting all over again the ballots cast in the presidential election in the state, but will be counting them individually, by hand, this time. It is a massive, laborious, and tedious task. A training video shows that the task must be done a certain way in Georgia's 159 counties: Teams of two people each will place ballots for Trump in one pile and ballots for Biden in another. They also have to set aside any mailed-in, hand-marked ballot if the voter’s mark is not clear.