Georgia is considered one battleground this year in the presidential election.
Georgia is considered a key battleground this year in the presidential election, after it went blue for the first time in decades in 2020.
The winner in the state will net its 16 electoral votes.Polls are now closed in the swing state.State significance
In 2016, Georgia went for Donald Trump over Hillary Clinton, but by a smaller margin than for previous Republican candidates. In 2020, President Joe Biden flipped the reliably red state blue by roughly 12,000 votes of more than 5 million cast.
Trump challenged the 2020 results, but a first-ever risk-limiting audit, which entailed counties recounting by hand every vote cast, reaffirmed Biden’s victory.
