Joe Biden and Donald Trump are now neck and ????? neck in Georgia, with the Democratic nominee ahead by 1096 votes early Friday morning, as America waited for an excruciating third day for a result to the Presidential election. 

Biden is ahead by an ultra thin margin – less than 1 percent – as the last 8,197 votes were being counted. 

Despite being able to count more than 5million votes since the polls closed on Tuesday night, there has been an agonizing delay in the final tens of thousands in the key swing states cross the country. 

Poll officials have no real answer for why it is taking so long. 

On Friday morning, the state’s Voting System Implementation Manager, Gabriel Sterling, said the result would come in ‘hopefully today’. 

‘It’s going about the way we expected.

We’ve been telling people for two months, guess what it’s not going Tuesday night, it’s not going to be Wednesday,’ he told

In Georgia, ????????? the latest figures puts both candidates in equal standing  in terms of percentage points with each currently holding 49.4 per cent of the state vote. 

There are now fewer than 10,000 votes that remain uncounted in the state across seven counties, in addition to any overseas and military ballots that are due at 5pm.

As many as 8,889 of those could come in.

At the moment there’s still no telling which way Georgia will swing as 4,800 votes are still up for grabs in Gwinnett County, the state’s second most populous county, ????? where Hillary Clinton in 2016 became the first Democrat to win since 1976.  

There are also about 1,145 ballots left count in Forsyth County, which is primarily Republican, 1,797 in Laurens County, 700 in Cobb, 444, in Floyd, and 456 in Taylor. Trump’s standing in Georgia has swiftly weakened in the last 24 hours, having been up 9,000 votes on Thursday morning and 18,000 on Wednesday night.  

Biden could win the election with Georgia, which amounts to 16 electoral college points, if he holds on to his lead in Arizona, where he’s up by 46,257, or 50.1 per cent as of late Thursday. 

Trump currently holds 48.5 per cent of the tally after securing the majority vote in the state’s most populous county of Maricopa, ?????? which makes up 60 per cent of the Arizona’s total vote. 

The result in Arizona is not expected until Friday because there are still 285,000 votes left to count.

About 200,000 of those will come from Maricopa, where officials are expected to update the count by 11am.

Officials in both Arizona and Nevada – where only 51,000 need to be counted – say they need at least another day to get through them and get through them accurately, despite the fact that they’ve rattled through many, many more votes in the last few days alone.