By law, Georgia has to count its early votes – all four million of them – by 20:00 EST (01:00 GMT), and the results are already rolling in, showing an early lead for Donald Trump.
We should be careful of reading anything into that at this stage. Small rural counties, the kinds of places likely to have strong Republican majorities, can count faster than big urban ones that are likely to lean Democratic.
If the vote is as close as expected here, it may not be until later tonight – when the counting of the in-person polling-day votes are counted – that we get a proper sense of which way this is going.
But election officials say, one way or another, we should get a result at some point tonight.
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