15 December 2022
Atlanta- This week, 138 counties participated within the post-election audit of the ballots used within the December 6, 2022 Senate Second Spherical. As a part of the audit, every taking part county was required to depend randomly chosen ballots to be at the least 2% of the votes forged.
In whole, county election officers inspected 409 social gathering ballots, representing roughly 4.6% of all ballots used within the state. 386 out of 409 events (94.4%) didn’t deviate from the unique candidate vote totals. As well as, 398 (97.3%) out of 409 events didn’t deviate from the initially reported whole variety of votes. Not one of the inconsistencies have been exterior of the traditional quantity for a hand depend inspection of this measurement.
Beneath is a comparability of every candidate’s vote totals for the audited events:
Georgia legislation mandates that audits be held after the bi-annual Normal Elections. All counties participated within the required Danger Containment Audit following the November 8, 2022 Normal Elections that confirmed the end result of the Secretary of State’s contest. Following the Senate runoff, this non-mandatory post-election audit was requested by Secretary Raffensperger.
“At a time when everyone seems to be drained and able to spend time with their households, I’m happy to have obtained such a excessive degree of participation from our districts,” stated International Minister Brad Raffensperger. “This audit demonstrated as soon as once more that our system is working and that Georgia’s voting system is appropriate.”
As in November, Georgia’s audit was supported by VotingWorks and their Arlo audit software program.
“Georgia election officers proceed to reveal their dedication to protected, correct and clear elections by verifying ballots via post-election inspections,” stated Virginia Vander Roest, VotingWorks’ Election Enforcement Supervisor. “VotingWorks is proud to assist these efforts.”
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