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The Georgia Republican Party sent another letter to Republican Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger today expressing concerns with the risk-limiting audit process.
It includes several factual inaccuracies+misunderstanding about how the process works. https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/7327999-GA-GOP-Audit-Recount-Letter.html
It includes several factual inaccuracies+misunderstanding about how the process works. https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/7327999-GA-GOP-Audit-Recount-Letter.html
The SoS is not using discretionary authority to order a hand recount, ad that's not what was said Wednesday.
The parameters of the Risk-Limiting Audit and the margins of the race mean that all 4.9M ballots will be examined by hand, effectively recounting the ballots.
The parameters of the Risk-Limiting Audit and the margins of the race mean that all 4.9M ballots will be examined by hand, effectively recounting the ballots.
In an audit (or a recount!) there is no review of signatures on absentee ballot envelopes because there are no absentee ballot envelopes+applications! These are just purely ballots.
There is a lower rejection threshold, partially b/c many counties proactively worked to cure.
There is a lower rejection threshold, partially b/c many counties proactively worked to cure.
County certification happens first. Then an audit, before STATE certification on the 20th. The county certification has to happen to give results to compare to.
The whole RLA process rests on chain of custody and ballot security! You can read the documents for how this will be conducted here: https://docs.voting.works/arlo/
Anyways, if anyone wants to learn how this is supposed to work in the next week, I've got you covered -> https://www.gpb.org/news/2020/11/12/how-will-georgia-recount-5-million-votes-very-carefully
