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Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson said a lawsuit from the Trump campaign aiming to temporarily halt vote counting is "meritless, frivolous."

"I see this as a meritless, frivolous lawsuit that's just an attempt to sow seeds of doubt in our election process, which is quite secure, quite accessible," Benson ABC News chief anchor George Stephanopoulos in an interview Thursday on "Good Morning America."

"As an election law attorney for the better part of two decades and former dean of a law school, I'm very familiar with how to ensure our procedures comply with the law," she added. "We've worked hard to make sure every single vote counts."

The lawsuit, filed Wednesday in Michigan state court, demands vote counting to stop until courts can enforce rules that permit campaign observers to watch the ballots being opened and counted. The Trump campaign has not produced any evidence of cheating but has alleged that poll watchers were being denied close-up access to observe vote counting at locations in Detroit.

Benson said counting is now finished in her state and the results will be released soon.

"So right now, we are in a position where the unofficial tabulation in Michigan is complete, the final touches are being made before it is uploaded and put on our website," she said.

With 99% of the expected vote reporting in Michigan, Biden currently leads with 51% of the vote while Trump has 48%.

"The results you're seeing out of Michigan now are quite near complete, if not fully complete," Benson said. "I don't expect any major changes in any of the totals."

Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., said the American people shouldn't be concerned that some states are still counting ballots.

"These states that are late counting, we expected this. Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, they don't start counting until the day of the election," Klobuchar told ABC News chief anchor George Stephanopoulos in an interview Thursday on "Good Morning America."

"We have to allow democracy to work," she added.

As the election continues to unfold and it appears Democrats will keep control of the House of Representatives while Republicans will hold the Senate, Klobuchar said she has already reached out to a number of GOP senators in an effort to help bridge the "big divide" in the country.

"There's already talk about can we get pandemic relief package done immediately when we go back. I think those are the kinds of things we should be working on to give Americans faith that people can work together," she said. "It wasn't an easy election for anyone. But the fact that a record number of Americans have voted, it just shows you that, to me, people want change, people are focused and they expect a government that works for them as hard as they work every day."

Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs said she doesn't expect there to be a recount in her state.

"Our recount margins are very narrow," Hobbs told ABC News chief anchor George Stephanopoulos in an interview Thursday on "Good Morning America." "So I don't think we're going to get to that territory."

A recount in Arizona is automatically triggered if the margin is within 0.1% of the total number of votes. A recount also is triggered, according to state statutes, if the margin is 200 votes or fewer and the total is more than 25,000, or if the margin is 50 votes or fewer and the total doesn’t exceed 25,000.

There is no set deadline for the completion of an automatic recount. Recounts may not be requested.

Hobbs said there are just under 350,000 votes left to be counted across Arizona, including 300,000 in Maricopa County, which accounts for nearly two-thirds of the state's registered voters.

"We have said from the beginning that this takes time, and we're going to focus on making sure every valid vote counts," she said. "It's not looking like today, probably closer to tomorrow that we'll be closer to getting through all those ballots."

With 86% of the expected vote reporting in the Grand Canyon State, Biden is leading there by 50% with 1,469,341 votes compared to Trump's 48% with 1,400,951 votes.

As the Trump campaign files lawsuits to stop vote counting in Georgia, Pennsylvania and Michigan, Hobbs said she doesn't see any "legal path" for them to bring a challenge in Arizona.

"There's nothing wrong with continuing to count ballots after Election Day. We've never finished counting ballots after Election Day," she said. "I'm not really sure what they would challenge legally."

Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger told Atlanta ABC affiliate WSB-TV on Thursday morning that there are 50,000 to 60,000 ballots left to be counted statewide.

Earlier, Raffensperger had said there were under 25,000 outstanding votes and that they would be counted by Thursday afternoon. With the revised figure, it's unclear if that timeline has changed and, if so, by how much.

Trump currently has 49.6% of the vote in Georgia, while Biden has 49.2%.

The outstanding votes include mail-in ballots from population-dense counties in the Atlanta metro region, which lean Democratic. Biden is outperforming Hillary Clinton's 2016 showing in those counties, including in the more upscale suburban reaches.

A Democratic presidential candidate has not won the battleground state since 1992.