An election official in the US state of Georgia has said President Trump will bear responsibility for any violence that results from unsubstantiated election fraud claims he has stoked.

(The New York Times)

"It's all gone too far," Gabriel Sterling warned. "It has to stop!"

He cited intimidation and death threats to workers in remarks on Tuesday.

Georgia is carrying out a second recount of votes at the Trump camp's request. Joe Biden was declared a narrow winner in the key state.

The second re-tally is showing no major changes, Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, a Republican, said on Wednesday. He said no evidence of widespread fraud had been found to support Mr Trump's claims.

Earlier Trump campaign spokesman Tim Murtaugh said his team was trying to make sure "that all legal votes are counted and all illegal votes are not".

"No-one should engage in threats or violence, and if that has happened, we condemn that fully," he said.

The plea in Georgia came after US Attorney General William Barr said his justice department had so far found no proof to back the president's claims of fraud in the election - the latest setback to the Trump camp's legal challenges in several states.

Georgia will also hold in January two run-off elections, which will determine who controls the Senate.

Mr Trump's Republican party currently has a slim majority in the upper chamber, and a victory in the run-offs would allow it to counter the Democratic administration of President-elect Biden.

However, if the Democrats win the two remaining seats, they would control half the seats in the Senate - and the vice-president would be able to act as a tie-breaker.

The Democrats already control the lower chamber - the House of Representatives.

(Lupni.com/BBC)