Officials: Georgia audit confirms secretary of state winner - Danbury News Times

"This audit shows that our strategy works and that our region predetermination officials conducted a secure, close election,” Raffensperger said successful a statement.

The audit stems from a instrumentality passed successful 2019, not from immoderate concerns astir the integrity of the state’s predetermination results. An audit is required for wide elections successful even-numbered years connected a contention selected by the caput of state. It indispensable beryllium completed earlier the predetermination results are certified.

Raffensperger announced earlier this period that helium was choosing his contention for the audit. Raffensperger bushed Democratic authorities House Rep. Bee Nguyen.

In 2020, helium chose the statesmanlike contention successful Georgia betwixt Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Joe Biden for the risk-limiting audit. Biden won that contention by a constrictive margin, prompting a manus tally of each votes formed to corroborate the accuracy of vote-tallying scanners.

In risk-limiting audits, the smaller the borderline betwixt candidates successful a race, the larger the illustration of ballots that indispensable initially beryllium audited.

Trump, who falsely claimed fraud outgo him the 2020 election, targeted Raffensperger for failing to overturn his constrictive nonaccomplishment successful Georgia. In a now-notorious January 2021 telephone call, Trump suggested Raffensperger could “find” capable votes to reverse Biden’s statesmanlike victory.

Raffensperger defeated a Trump-endorsed superior challenger successful this year’s predetermination contest.

For this year's audit, Georgia predetermination officials hosted a dice rotation astatine the authorities Capitol to assistance find the batches of votes that counties had to number by hand.

In total, region predetermination officials reviewed 328 batches of ballots. More than 85 percent of the batches had nary deviation from the archetypal campaigner ballot totals. Of the remaining batches, each but 1 had a discrepancy wrong an expected borderline of mistake for a manus count, the Secretary of State's bureau said.

The audit counted 156,832 votes for Raffensperger and 67,486 votes for Nguyen. A instrumentality number of the aforesaid ballots had Raffensperger's ballot full astatine 156,811 and Nguyen's full astatine 67,504.

Officials had said specified a quality was expected due to the fact that of quality mistake during the manus counting process.

State instrumentality requires 90% certainty that the result is correct, but Raffensperger said helium was expanding that to 95%, that is to accidental a “risk limit” of 5%.