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Allow me to get into the semi-important weeds for a second:When the SOS said this is an audit, a recount and a recanvass he's right - sorta.
We don't know the full details of how counties will do it, but it incorporates methods of all three things. https://www.gpb.org/news/2020/11/11/georgia-conduct-hand-recount-in-razor-thin-presidential-race
ORDINARILY, a risk-limiting audit uses advanced statistics to determine how many ballots - and which ones (selected randomly) to examine+have confidence the right winner won. Tighter the margin, the more ballots needed! https://www.gpb.org/news/2020/11/11/georgia-conduct-hand-recount-in-razor-thin-presidential-race
The RLA has humans hand-examine the text of voter's choice.
In this case, the presidential margin of ~14,000 votes means the number of ballots needed to reach confidence level is basically... all of 'em. Hence audit is re-counting every ballot by hand! https://www.gpb.org/news/2020/11/11/georgia-conduct-hand-recount-in-razor-thin-presidential-race
In this case, the presidential margin of ~14,000 votes means the number of ballots needed to reach confidence level is basically... all of 'em. Hence audit is re-counting every ballot by hand! https://www.gpb.org/news/2020/11/11/georgia-conduct-hand-recount-in-razor-thin-presidential-race
a RECOUNT could be requested post-certification by a loser if margin is within .5%, and would be done by re-*scanning* the nearly 5 million ballots cast. So this isn't a recount per se, because such a recount would be done by machine & be more accurate! https://www.gpb.org/news/2020/11/11/georgia-conduct-hand-recount-in-razor-thin-presidential-race
So the Trump campaign could still call for a recount after certification, but it's unlikely. Also, the vote totals will slightly change, and that's because humans are involved and it's also OK!
Slightly change =/= 14,000 votes' worth. https://www.gpb.org/news/2020/11/11/georgia-conduct-hand-recount-in-razor-thin-presidential-race
Slightly change =/= 14,000 votes' worth. https://www.gpb.org/news/2020/11/11/georgia-conduct-hand-recount-in-razor-thin-presidential-race
OCGA 21-2-495 deals with recanvassing, which really has to do with the proper results coming from precincts/voting machines/scanners.
It's what Fulton did last weekend when it noticed totals didn't match, for example! https://www.gpb.org/news/2020/11/11/georgia-conduct-hand-recount-in-razor-thin-presidential-race
It's what Fulton did last weekend when it noticed totals didn't match, for example! https://www.gpb.org/news/2020/11/11/georgia-conduct-hand-recount-in-razor-thin-presidential-race
So, Georgia's risk-limiting audit is leading to a de facto hand recount of almost 5M votes that is recanvassing results of the presidential race. It's gonna be hard to pull off, stressful and needs to be done by next Friday. Any questions? https://www.gpb.org/news/2020/11/11/georgia-conduct-hand-recount-in-razor-thin-presidential-race
ADDENDUM: In the new omnibus HB 316 passed in 2019, the state certification deadline *could* be moved later if the audit's not done, but the secretary of state expressed confidence that counties would complete things by 11/20.
Georgia officials aren't just flying by the seat of their pants deciding how to run this, either. For the last yearish they've been working with @voting_works on designing the RLA process, including a pilot that I watched with Fulton County this summer. https://twitter.com/benadida/status/1326609572505690112?s=20
