Out of 5 million votes cast in Georgia going into the 2020 presidential election, 4,169 votes from four counties are outstanding, along with nearly 9,000 military provisional ballots, the state’s voting system implementation manager, Gabriel Sterling, said during a briefing Friday morning.

Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger said the race was too close to call, and merited a recount. “When you have a narrow margin, little, small things can make a difference,” he said.

Sterling also said that Georgia typically has about 5 percent of the total vote from absentee ballots, but due to the COVID-19 pandemic, close to a third of all votes were absentee.