S election remains in the balance this morning as votes continue to be counted in key battleground states.

Joe Biden is inching closer to victory after claiming Michigan overnight, with reports suggesting he'll take MAWR key states today.

But the Trump campaign is taking legal action in several areas, calling for counts to be stopped.

So far, 43 off the 50 states have declared their results with the Democratic candidate, Joe Biden, on 243 Electoral College votes on the Republican Donald Trump on 214 on the number needed toe win.

Overall, it's probably imprinted on your brain by now.

And therefore to occupy the White House is 270 Electoral College votes.

This first report today is from our North America correspondent Ben Right.

There are still millions of votes to count on this presidential race is not decided.

Looking to see in Georgia, Donald Trump kept the narrowest of leads over Joe Biden as ballots were tallied late into the night.

It was a scene repeated in the handful of states that will now decide this election.

At the moment, it's Joe Biden sounding confident he currently has more Electoral College votes than his rival and chalked up vital winds in the Midwest.

Michigan.

A Democratic gain on Wisconsin looks to have gone the same way here.

The people rule power can't be taken or asserted.

It flows from the people.

And is there will that determines who will be the president of United States?

And there will alone in Nevada, the two candidates are neck and neck, and the state will release more results on Thursday.

And in Arizona, once a Republican stronghold, Joe Biden stayed slightly ahead while election officials counted the remaining postal ballots after President Trump prematurely declared victory on erroneously claimed in a tweet to have one states he hadn't.

Republicans filed a string of lawsuits and complaints were gonna win Pennsylvania, But they're trying to cheat us out of it because they know it's there on Lee path to victory.

They know it's the only path to victory, and so we came here today.

We met with all our lawyers.

We are gonna file suit in Pennsylvania after an attempt by the Trump campaign to stop the count in Michigan, the state's chief election officer called the lawsuit meritless.

We're focused on getting this right in a way that can withstand any court challenges.

I'll also mentioned we've seen this not just in Michigan, but in other states.

Ah, lot of times court challenges or allegations were thrown around to further political agendas, as opposed to actually legal claims.

We could still be waiting a while to discover who the next president will be as an unprecedented volume of postal votes accounted.

But it's the current occupant of the White House who is trying to catch up.

Ben right.

BBC News Washington on Let's focus now on one of those key states that we're keeping a close eye on Georgia.

Our correspondent Larry Madura has Bean at a vote count in Atlanta.

This is the state farm arena in Atlanta, which is usually a place you play games.

Now there's doing very serious business of vote counting.

This is Fulton County, the largest county in the state of Georgia, and these people are working overnight is just after 2 a.m. right now, and they're trying to make sure that the last outstanding votes are counted.

The state of Georgia has told us that there are about 90,000 or so votes that are yet to be counted.

And it's so crucial.

Democrats is salivating about this state because President Trump is currently leading in the count.

But that lead is about 31,000 votes, so every single vote is going to count.

Here.

Let me talk now with the Director of elections important County Richard Baron.

Thank you for joining us on BBC World News is a very busy time for you.

Oh, yes, it is pleasure to be here, though.

So what?

How far away are you from getting to know what kind of results of closing county?

Uh, still a few hours away.

We probably have close to 30 13,000 ballots to go through.

We have toe scan them and then adjudicate them before with ballots that are posted by mail, thes air, all mail ballots yet And the ones that come in, they drop them off in our Dropbox isas.

Well, for our viewers around the world, you don't know what exactly the people behind us doing.

What are they doing right now?

They get, they get a tray of ballots, they will put it through the opener extractors and then once they get him out of the envelopes, they'll go over to these people that air flattening them that are preparing them for the scanners in the back.

Once they go through the scanners, we take a thumb drive over to our warehouse.

There's a vote review panel over there on that vote review panel will look at any of the ballots that have been flagged by the software where voter intent is in question.

And what they do is just determined how the voter was what the voters intent.

Waas.

They wanted to vote for this candidate or that candidate.

So allow these battles that are being counted here.

They must have been received by when 7 p.m. On Election Day.

Is it possible to add any balance after that to this group?

No, we closed.

All of our dropbox is at 7 p.m. On election night on.

If we didn't receive anything in the mail by 7 p.m. On election night, anything that received after that is rejected.

So you started at 140,000 with these?

Yes, approximately 142,000?

Yes, on So you're down to the last 14.

So 1000?

Yes, What is the average progress?

You're making it an hour.

We've been doing about 3500, and Howard, the last couple hours on that's actually accelerated.

Has the days gone by?

So hopefully we will push on through and get done with this by, you know, six.

AM seven AM President Trump's team is mounting a legal challenge because they think in some parts of this state that some battles were introduced after that kind of time.

Did any of that happened in Fulton County?

No way had teams that all 38 drop boxes that locked those boxes, right?

Right At 7 p.m. On anything that that was way only received ballots up until seven PM through the mail.

Anything that would have been after that, we would put in the reject pile.

I spoke with you about three weeks ago when you were planning this.

What has been most surprising for you now that it's actually happening?

Um, well, we had 25 covert infections in our warehouse since I saw you last, which pretty much devastated about 40% of my workforce out there.

Way had a lot of challenges getting ready for election day.

early voting went great for us.

Election Day actually turned out to be pretty pretty slow in.

Turn out.

All right, So good luck getting it all done.

Thank you.

Richard Barron, director of elections in Fulton County, the largest in the state of Georgia.

And we're expecting an update from the state, the Secretary of State of Georgia about the whole election in the state because the whole nation in America is watching what happens and who will be.

Especially that we know that presidential race here.