Burst water pipe might delay the vote count from Atlanta's county until as late as Friday

We’re hearing a lot on the cable networks about how closely everyone is watching Georgia, but Ben Brasch says they might not have a vote count tonight for Fulton County — home of Atlanta — because of a burst water pipe that delayed processing of mail-in absentee ballots.

Officials: We won't have the vote count we expected tonight in Fulton County, home to Atlanta and a tenth of all Georgians. Absentee-by-mail processing at State Farm Arena was delayed 4 hours because a water pipe burst in a room. Officials say no ballots were damaged. @ajc #gapol

— Ben Brasch (@ben_brasch) November 4, 2020

Pretty massive news: the largest county covering Atlanta will have its results delayed significantly… might not have full results for Georgia until Wednesday https://t.co/5bbPJDlomQ

— Christian Datoc (@TocRadio) November 4, 2020

Fulton has scanned 86,191 of the 130,517 absentee-by-mail ballots received, which doesn't include the ballots received in today's mail, elections officials said.

One board member thinks we won't have results until Friday.

— Ben Brasch (@ben_brasch) November 4, 2020

Friday?

Of course this happens here.

— Greg Sirico (@GregSirico) November 4, 2020

Would we expect anything else in 2020?

— sharonzee (@sharonmz) November 4, 2020

Pictures or it didn't happen

— East Concord Driving Range Pro (@Garcelon) November 4, 2020

What a coincidence. A water pipe burst on election day but was fine every day before.

— Supernatural Parents (@PattiandZari) November 4, 2020

?

— Mark Riedel (@markriedel1977) November 4, 2020

Because water pipes randomly burst all the time…

— Chance (@tweeting_chance) November 4, 2020

Unacceptable. This stuff only seems to happen when Democrats are in charge.

— Jeremy Bell (@thejeremybell) November 4, 2020

So much bullshit happening

— cassidy lane (@LannyWarwick) November 4, 2020

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Update:

The New York Times weighs in on Georgia:

NYT needle: Florida – 94% tilt to Trump. Georgia – 62% tilt to Trump.

— Joe Concha (@JoeConchaTV) November 4, 2020