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And yet, if you note what the observers had to say about the "recount", Georgia is having to deal with voting and auditing processes which are FUBAR and need to be replaced with actual paper ballots. The "recount" was completely unscientific [thenation.com] and, for the literate, a shocking incident. Whether people are happy with the results or not does not affect the importance of ensuring a reliable and sound process. That'st just not happening. Instead the states have methods which don't actually work and, depending on which "side" won, take turns alternately attacking or defending the undeniable need to fix the process itself.

This week, thousands of Georgians sat at tables in rooms large and small across the state’s 159 counties and counted nearly 5 million paper ballots by hand, in what officials called a statewide audit of the general election outcome. Though the process ended by confirming President-elect Joe Biden’s lead, certified by the state on Friday, expert observers across the nation familiar with the state and its history with election technology looked on, feeling what one described as “horrified.”

These observers included computer scientists, cybersecurity analysts, an adviser to Congress on election integrity, and the statistician who invented the method of auditing elections that Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger said the state was carrying out.

Their reactions to the noble efforts of exhausted election workers were not, they underlined, due to evidence of wrongdoing, or fraud, or challenges to the election’s legitimacy. Their concerns owed to the process being used, what state officials were calling it, and what this could mean for future attempts to build public trust in election results—including on January 5, when voters in Georgia will once again be in the national spotlight, as a special election decides the balance of power in the US Senate.

That whole article is worth a read, there just too many mistakes being made, mostly on purpose, to summarize in a short quote. Remember, there are still two US Senate seats to fill in January there.