With Georgia becoming the crucial battleground state to determine the presidential race as the southern state has been hanging at stake with the nail-biting battle between Republican incumbent Donald Trump and Democratic contender Joe Biden, the southern GOP ruled state is moving towards the direction of having a recount of presidential votes in the wake of the small margin between the candidates.

Amid the hard-fought battle, the crucial state is getting into the unprecedented episode of a recount and the development has come at a high time when President Trump has been pressing for the recount in the battleground states like Georgia and Wisconsin. The development has also come hours after the state judge had rejected   Trump's lawsuit of demanding the recount. 

According to Georgia's voting system implementation manager Gabriel Sterling, the presidential candidates each had 49.4% of counted ballots, though Biden was ahead by 1,579 votes as of Friday morning with 4,169 left to count. Officials said about 9,000 military and overseas ballots were still outstanding and could be accepted if they arrive on Friday and are postmarked on Tuesday or earlier. 

According to Reuters, Georgia's secretary of state Brad Raffensperger told reporters that with a margin that small, there will be a recount. The reports say that there are two ways to seek a vote recount in Georgia. A presidential candidate who loses by 0.5% of the vote or less can demand a recount by sending a written request to the secretary of state, or a candidate can ask the secretary of state to conduct a recount under the grounds of discrepancy or error in the vote tabulation. 

With such requests for a recount, the Georgia state law gives the secretary of state discretion on deciding whether to conduct a recount. Reuters said that Georgia had installed a new touch-screen voting machines this year in which after a voter makes their choices, the machine produces a marked paper ballot that's fed into a scanner that counts the vote. If the scanner cannot read the ballot, a bipartisan group of election officials reviews the situation and it would determine whether or how it should be counted. 

However, the process of recount won't differ from the normal system and the recount hasn't made any big changes in the results and it has been considered that the recount will unlikely have a big effect on the state's vote totals. Earlier, Trump's campaign has filed lawsuits in Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin, and when he demanded a recount of votes in Wisconsin, he had urged to stop the counting of votes. 

When Trump expected to have a favorable outcome, the judges in Georgia and Michigan had rejected his lawsuits, which had become a major blow to Trump. In Michigan, Trump has sought to stop the counting of absentee ballots while in Georgia, his campaign had alleged that even improper ballots are getting counted. However, Judge Cynthia Stephens in Michigan and Judge James Bass in Georgia had rejected Trump's lawsuits. 

The legal experts said the cases had a little chance of affecting the electoral outcome. Michigan judge noted that Trump's request to stop the count made little sense, given that the counting has been finished in the state. According to the Washington Post, Michigan's Attorney General's office had described Trump's request as an attempt to unring a bell. Similarly, the incumbent's threat of a lawsuit in Georgia was rejected as the Judge disqualified his efforts to stop the counting.  

However, hours after Trump's lawsuit was rejected, GOP ruling Georgia's secretary of state had revealed there would be a recount, which in a way Trump has been expecting to have a breakthrough. For both the candidates, the battleground states like Georgia, Nevada, Pennsylvania, and Arizona are important to win the presidency. According to the projections by major news agencies, Biden is setting up a decent lead in these states and he has been expected to narrow Trump's victory path through the mail-in ballots that are expected to go in favor of the former Vice-President. 

In the race to the magical number of 270, Biden is on the verge of taking over the Presidency while the incumbent is on the verge of conceding the defeat. Even if Trump has a breakthrough in Georgia's recount, he must win all the battleground states while Biden needs two states to near 300 electoral votes. Currently, Biden has secured 253 votes and Trump has got 214 votes. Even Trump thinks of sweeping Georgia, the state will less likely help him as there are thousands of uncounted mail-in ballots and the incumbent has a thin possibility of winning at least one of the four battleground states as Biden leads Trump in Nevada, Arizona, and Pennsylvania with more than 10,000 votes in each state.