Georgia secretary of state selects his race for election audit

Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger has chosen his personal reelection race to be examined within the state's biyearly election risk-limiting audit.

State legislation in Georgia requires the secretary of state's workplace to pick out an election to be audited each even-year normal election, with Raffensperger selecting his race within the curiosity of transparency. His choice comes solely two days after he gained reelection for Georgia secretary of state in opposition to Democratic state Rep. Bee Nguyen on Tuesday, in line with WXIA.

"I consider in transparency and accountability to voters, and that is why I've chosen this race," stated Raffensperger.

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The state conducts the audit by sampling random batches of ballots in an election, counting them by hand, and checking to see whether or not the outcomes principally align with the election outcomes from poll machines used within the election. The outcomes of this audit will have to be a minimum of 95% just like the outcomes of voting machines, and the intent is to complete the audit by Nov. 18, in line with officers.

The outcomes of this audit can be revealed on the secretary of state's web site, officers stated.

"The audit will, with statistical confidence, present that the end result of the election was appropriate," stated state Director of Elections Blake Evans. "It can additionally present that the machines that tabulated the votes labored correctly."

Audits had been instituted in Georgia code in 2019, and the 2020 presidential election between then-President Donald Trump and Democratic candidate Joe Biden wbecause the state's first, Georgia's Secretary of State workplace informed the Washington Examiner. As a result of how shut the election was, the state had the entire ballots within the state hand-counted.