It's now been almost a week since Georgia held the Nov. 6 election, but Georgia still doesn't know who its next governor will be.
The razor-tight race is tightening even more, as county after county works to count every same-day, absentee and provisional ballot cast.
While Republican Brian Kemp has declared himself the winner of the election, his Democratic challenger Stacey Abrams has vowed not to concede until every vote is counted - even if it means filing suit.
Abrams' campaign is doing just that, announcing Sunday plans to file a federal class action lawsuit to push back the date of certification from this coming Wednesday, Nov. 14, to whenever each and every ballot has been logged.
"This race is not over," representatives vowed. "It remains too close to call."
The suit names DeKalb County, Gwinnett County and Kemp, who, up until recently, was the Secretary of State in charge of overseeing the election. He stepped down Nov. 8 during an appearance with Gov. Nathan Deal, in which he named his transition team.
Kemp's campaign representative Ryan Mahoney responded to the lawsuit saying,
"It's incredibly shameful that liberal lawyers are doubling down on lawsuits desperately trying to create more votes for Stacey Abrams. They don't want to win this election. They are trying to steal it."
In a Sunday evening press call with Abrams team, representatives said she is holding out because they claim there is no way to know how many ballots still haven't been counted because counties are not accurately recording every ballot that comes in.
They pointed to Chatham County, who they claimed had a large discrepancy between the number of people who say they requested absentee ballots and those who actually voted. They also claimed Gwinnett and DeKalb Counties were rejecting any ballot that had any irregularity on them - including errors as small as putting down the current date in the "date" line instead of their birth date.
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Currently, Kemp holds a lead over Abrams with 50.28% (1,975,806 votes) to her 48.78% (1,916,931 votes). That lead is continuing to shrink, however, as more votes are counted. In an email to supporters, obtained by 11Alive, Abrams' team said they now need, by their numbers, only 19,000 more votes to force a recount.
The board of elections called a meeting late Sunday night by teleconference to discuss the pending litigation filed by the Abrams campaign. While the public was allowed to dial in, the board quickly went in to executive session, which is confidential.
Abrams' team said even if the lawsuit drags on past the set Dec. 4 runoff date, they plan to keep going until every vote is counted.
