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(Still) Counting Votes in Florida and Georgia
Ari Berman, senior reporter at Mother Jones and author of Give us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America (Picador, reprint 2016), discusses the potential recounts in Florida's gubernatorial and senate races, as well as the tight gubernatorial election in Georgia, where votes are still being counted in the race between Georgia's former Secretary of State Brian Kemp and Stacey Abrams.