Georgia secretary of state predicts Election Day 'challenges'
Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger held a news conference this morning from Park Tavern at Piedmont Park in Atlanta -- a polling location that had over 16,000 voters assigned to it during the June primary and some of the longest lines in the county.
Amid lingering accusations of voter suppression in the state, Raffensperger projected confidence in how the fall election has gone so far but also said there will be “challenges” on Tuesday.
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"There's never been a perfect election. This one has gone very well so far. Tomorrow we'll have challenges. The job of the counties, the poll managers, the poll workers will be to address those issues quickly. The state stands ready to help, where we can," he said.
Raffensperger said his office has secured nearly 2,000 field service technicians to address issues that may arise at the 2,400 polling precincts statewide.
Providing an update on early voting, Raffensperger said a record 55% of active registered voters have already voted in Georgia and that roughly 1.4 million "would have normally been Election Day voters."
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Gabriel Sterling, the statewide voting system implementation manager in Raffensperger’s office, echoed Raffensperger in saying that results in closer races will likely come on Wednesday and added they are expecting legal challenges following the election.
"We anticipate that in any situation where we have a close election like this in what is now viewed as a swing state, there's going to be challenges. There'll be challenges from Republicans. There'll be challenges from Democrats, and we expect them all to be going into court more than likely," Sterling said.
Former President Barack Obama is campaigning for Biden in Georgia Monday as Democrats sense an opportunity to flip the state which Trump won by 5 points in 2016.
-ABC News' Quinn Scanlan