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The centre was founded in 1982 by former President Jimmy Carter and his wife Rosalynn Image caption: The centre was founded in 1982 by former President Jimmy Carter and his wife Rosalynn

The Carter Center has announced that it will monitor the manual recount of ballots in Georgia, the first time in its history that it will deploy its monitors for a US election.

It said it wanted to increase confidence in US democracy.

"As an independent, nonpartisan monitor, The Carter Center will assess the postelection audit and related processes to help bolster transparency and confidence in election results," it said in a statement.

President-elect Joe Biden is currently ahead in Georgia, but earlier this week its secretary of state announced a full hand recount of the almost five million votes cast because of the narrow margin between the two candidates.

Donald Trump has made numerous allegations of election fraud since the vote without providing any evidence.

The Carter Center has observed more than 110 elections in Africa, Latin America, and Asia since 1989, but never before in the US.

The organisation stressed that its involvement would be limited to Georgia's post-election audit, adding that the decision was "not part of a broader assessment of the election as a whole".

Earlier this year, the Carter Center announced that it would be turning its attention to the US by launching a campaign "to strengthen transparency and trust in the election process" amid increasing polarisation.