Numbers. We close in on counties beginning the certification process. I know there were questions mainly concerning the military ballots, which were the last ones to come in on friday. With that, at the end of the were 18,407 military votes that were accepted and outstanding, which means they cannot come in now, but those were the out there available and ones could have come in but did not, 7786. Separate from that was regular absentee ballots. So with that, the ballots cast were 1,303,749 absentee ballots, and then theres 126,400 that were not cast. You will see that the lower number than the original request because we literally had hundreds of thousands of people show up to vote in person that had absentee ballots canceled, which is a process legal in in the state of georgia. So far, weve seen a little over 7000 provisionals had been a part of the reports that if have come in from the counties. We know at least 7300 provisionals have been accepted already and continue to work with counties to find how many might be part of the final report, but at the same time, they are working diligently to bring us the final reports. 47 counties so far have given us their certified results. I dont have the list of them here. You can go to the website to look for those counties. On the map, they will be colored orange. So then i have a few items that happened as watched over the weekend, that for lack of a better word or different terminology, fake news, disinformation, misinformation, misunderstandings, all those things that feed into the situation we see not just in george but across the country so im going to go through, and i might go through the weeds on these because i think they need to be fully understood. Upset people genuinely with outcomes and genuinely thrilled. The facts are the facts outcomes. Of thats what we are working on, getting the count accurate and right and getting Accurate Information so at the end of the day, regardless of whos side won or lost, understanding that in georgia we had an accurate outcome. So first, as you all know we used the dominion voting system. There wasnt really a report of a glitch or Software Issue or problem in michigan. There was no Software Issue in michigan in that county. What happened there was people and process issue. This will give a much into the weeds and i apologize but i want to make sure we have a full understanding of how this situation of misreporting of original result occurred and how it was corrected so it does not affect the outcomes. Essentially what happened is you a small county in the Upper Peninsula of michigan where a clerk, who happens to be a republican, was there and they had scanners i believe. 17in one scanner, she had forgotten to add a school board race. So she called her vendor which i believe is called election source on saturday and she said i need you to add this particular race back to this election so people could vote on it. They reprinted ballots because they have hand marked paper ballots for that particular precinct. So they said heres your new database. Remember, you have a new universal database for york your county, meaning you have to burn media not just for the one precinct, but all precincts. Precinct. Id the one in doing so, the tabulators themselves, the scanners saw the ballot and they got the results. Up becauseon came she has 17 scanners and one database. The database she has, only the one scanner is aligned with the database. The other 16 are not. If anyone works with an xl spreadsheet and you put in formulas and the formulas all work and then you add a column, rap. Formulas all go to c it makes no sense. The database could not recognize what it was looking. Obviously they had people getting zero results. They realized it very quickly. They took the numbers done. The scanners did everything right. It was a simple reporting issue because of an error because she forgot to change her media out. Thats not a glitch, not a Software Issue. That is a human being to make a who made a mistake under trying circumstances. The county has 44,000 people and its not great resource. Here is no Software Issue some people saw some very entertaining video of some people dumpster diving in Spalding County and looking for ballots. There were no ballots. What we found were empty security envelopes. There was nothing there that affected the outcome of the election. There was nothing there on that front. The issue with the gwinnett ballots cast being almost twice as much shown us the overall vote, the issue is many of you from georgia understand that under the National Voting rights act, we know county is the one in georgia that has to use two languages, spanish and english. In doing so, essentially there are double the number of pages on the ballots. Common sense made us realize that in the reporting, it is pages scanned. We already talked to dominion about the fact the language needs to be changed. The fact that its not exactly double is because sometimes people just turn in the front page. Just the one about president , thats it and they dont care about the rest of it and they leave it behind. So there is no double votes counted in gwinnett. Why is it going slowly . Their results were all uploaded tuesday night. They had a situation where they try to make something work better and ordered an additional adjudication module. Case, therticular adjudication module was not being used to figure out to discern a persons vote, it was being used to get the right ends off of the dmv ballots. Theres no way to get off the scanner. You have to go to the adjudication module because in a president ial race we have certified writein vote candidates, so you have to have those for the final count. Truly ae they have, configuration issue, not a software glitch, they had a single adjudication server and that server was going to multiple workstations. Now to send out the ballot images on that they have to use , something called microsoft q. Done in quickly. Dominion said they messed up, our fault. That is what harold held them up. That slow down the server. The secondary part is because they had so much more data on the ballots because they had the. Information on theres a lot more whitespace on the standard ballot because they dont have much printing on. It requires much more memory. It slowed everything down. Through onwent sunday really well after an engineer optimized the server. The spalding call pat issue were someone supposedly called or showed up, or it was a man or a woman or a person named crystal, because the story kept on moving these are what we know. According to the log files, nothing touched the pull pads after october 31. That was the last update. There was nothing that was done to the system after that date. The night before, nothing was happening to the system. Saturday night, which was so much fun after the georgia game, i got to drive to state farm arena because Fulton County found an issue. We did not know what it was but we made sure immediately we had the monitor on site. Carter jones was there. We had an investigator on site immediately. The secretary dispatched to the scene as well. Again, anybody who has grown up in this state, in this area, knows the system, and we know National Media and the campaigns were wondering whats going on so we wanted to have boots on the ground to keep an eye on the situation. What happened there was again , bad process. They uploaded results on friday. They did the reconciliation after. In general when you are about to , tell the world these are the numbers, when everybody around the world and the countries look at them, you probably want to do reconciliation prior to uploading them. They did not. And unfortunately, the gamble did not pay off. They figured out hours later at that the reconciliation did not match. Of, andg to the tune forgive my math, i think 484 total votes that were off, and it was all inside the provisional bucket. They went back about 3 00. And inside that, the first thing they discovered is 126 of those provisional ballots that were scanned into the absentee module. What that means is in the region original reporting, the absentees were 126 higher and the provisions were 126 lower. That was the first thing they found. While they were onsite in state farm arena, they discovered there was a box of 358 damaged ballots. What happens is when you go to provisional, you have to put it in a provisional envelope with an explanation of the issue, signatures by people to identify it and figure out whether it be verified or counted. They put that through the automatic opening machine. Knifeasion, the little will slice the ballot. It cannot scan a damaged ballot. The normal process is you take those and replicate them on a bmd and scan those. Those should have been on friday. It was not. When they discover these, they did the replication. Republican and democrat monitors were there in the room. Like i said, our monitor was there. The processes, it went on a very long time. They got there at 3 00. They got people in and out, there were always people onsite. I got there around 10 30 myself. The process took a long time. I dont have a good answer as to why, but it did. They went through the process and scanned ballots and added it to the totals. Put the new ones back in. Even at the end of the day, doing reconciliation one last time, they were seven ballots short. They could not find seven. Someone said, did you look in the spoiled ballot been . And sure enough, they found the they were able to get to a full seven. Accounting of all those ballots. The problem we have is when people dont follow the procedures, it undermines peoples faith in the overall outcomes. Its the silly little thing sometimes but these details are very important, and Fulton County unfortunately has a history of some of this stuff. They did so much to clean up their act from the june election. I want to note a couple other things. Then theres been sort of a description, georgia suddenly flipped from republican for years to democrats. Again, anybody who has been your here is aware of the fact that none of this was sudden. There was a very close race for governor in 2018. We saw people getting elected as democrats in gwinnett and cobb countys the last few years. None of this is sudden or surprising to the pundits who track whats going on in georgia. It is not a massive flip when more thanleads was 10,000. I have not done the math since but it should be similar now. The other thing we discovered is there was a lot of ticket splitting. There are many people who did not vote the president and did vote for david perdue or Kelly Leffler or bubba mcdonald. We saw a lot of ticket splitting. All of this tracks with the political environment we have seen. All of it has to do with ticket splitting. This is the one thats a little bit, for lack of a word, crazy town, which is the hammer and scorecard issue. Frankly it doesnt make a lot of thee but will quote director of the Cyber Security infrastructure security agency. He uses the words, its flatout a hoax and nonsense. We cant have people putting those words out there from the people protecting Cyber Infrastructure in the country. So dont buy into these things. Find trusted sources. Another thing i want to point in this state, this time, the selection, on election day was an amazing success. Had annt average we average of two minute wait time. That is unheard of in the state. The people in georgia did a very good job of adopting the action plan and mood moving voting behaviors to really voting. We had 2. 7 million early in person votes. We had about a little over 1. 3 million absentee votes and 975,000 in person election day votes, which goes back to what many people thought we would have 50 to 60 male in and absentee vote. Georgians culturally enjoy voting in person. Thats why the vast majority of the earlier in person or in person on election day, thats what we saw a lot of, was people defaulting to type. They liked being there and seeing the ballot and putting it into the scanner. What i dont like is people trying to undermine the system put together so hard by the secretarys office and county elections directors. Let me be perfectly clear on another point. We are going to find that people did illegally vote. That will happen. There are going to be double voters. There will be people who did not have the qualifications to register to vote. That will be found. Is it 10,353 . Unlikely. Every election, as i have said every day at this podium, it is imperfect. The issue now is with margins where the winner for the close in the country of. 2 , when the margins are this tight, every little thing matters. This office will thoroughly investigate and work to find ways. We know the system work properly. We know the ballots were counter properly and we know that. We have an audit to prove and looks like more than likely the president will ask for a recount to reaffirm that. But on the front end, we need to make sure that the absentee ballot process is tight as it can be so we can stop illegal voting and prevent double voting now and in the future. With that, i will take any questions yall might have. [inaudible] we have not seen that at this time but i do believe we have reports of it, so investigators will be looking into it. I do not have specific information. [inaudible] with 47 certified so far, we have 112 more to go which is not insignificant. Some of them are larger counties. Richmond is already certified. Certified. Already but it will be a process as they continue to wrap up the provisionals. We feel like most of the uploads were done over the weekend and you will find the ticket techie things for their reconciliations, all the ballots were uploaded. We are trying to do them as fast as we can so we can do our risklimiting audit. And no the decision has not been , made which race that will be done. But the outward bounds again are to certifiedhave by this friday and on the following friday, the state has to be certified. Again, is because that is outward edge bound where we have to get the balance of military and overseas voters on saturday , november nothing . 21st. Ok. [inaudible] can you step forward so i can hear you . [inaudible] no. What else . We also heard from allegations of the president saying that there were missing military ballots. Washe only thing we have approximately 7000 that did not make it here in time legally. I will go over those numbers again. 7786 of them did not make it here to the county in time. I wouldnt call those missing. Those are people who either didnt vote or they got lost in the usps or any of the number of ways why they didnt get there. Id andyou talk about the process . We are working to get the deadline for the counties to get ballot manifest into the state is today. The audit itself until we get certification from the counties. That gives us our final count of ballots which is input into the system where a Nonpartisan Group helps us organize the risk limiting audit. Again, we are at the mercy of the last county to come in before we get everything going. I believe, and its either tuesday or wednesday, i think, the secretary will make announcements which race will be audited. I just remember tuesday or wednesday and i will try to get the answer to you. Yes, sir. [inaudible] frankly, the secretary ran for this job. We took these jobs. The pressure is more integral internal and external to get it right. Our job is to get it right for the voters and people of georgia and for the people of the United States to make sure the outcome of this election are correct and trustworthy and at the end of the day, no matter which side of the aisle, no matter which candidate you supported, you can have trust and believe in the outcome of these things. Listen, we understand that theres one side of this country that is a brilliant, ecstatic, and the streets partying. I guess covid is over. Then you have the other side which are extremely upset. They are angry. They in their heart of hearts no thatin their guts something terrible happened and their guy lost and its not fair. When you are this close and the emotions are running this high, it is understandable. The president to a strong degree has the responsibility to the 72 Million People or so who voted for him to say i will go through all the legal means to make sure your vote is defend. We understand that. Our job in the state is to follow the law of the state. If a judge tells us to do something else, we will do that but our job is to follow the law. [inaudible] are there still overseas ballots . I couldnt answer right now, it is down to the county level. I know they are working diligently. [inaudible] well, this is it. It was configuration issue on a single machine, one of those things where you try to get extra machinery to help the process. This is one of those things that says my dad calls help until it helps. This did not help. We are looking into it so in the future we do have the extra step of verification before we deploy it and we are looking for of theseay for all adjudicated ballots to put the one side here and the rest can be uploaded. The process is taking longer than it should have. Wait a second. She has been patient. [inaudible] im unaware, i have heard some of the rumors but i dont have anything specific. I would think normally that would be handled under the state constitution of election security, the responsibility of the county sheriff. They should be the one providing lead security for anybody. Nobody should be threatened for doing what is a Great American job to volunteer and work hard in these elections. How confident are you [inaudible] we are very confident. We never had a recount so we dont know what will happen, especially with this much paper that is and marked. Hand marked. With a recount and everything happening could you describe , what the recount process takes . This is where we get into the fun geeky level but but i know essentially what it is, we have a call for an audit statewide. The decision was made internally months ago with something called risklimiting audit. In doing that, you have to make a few decisions. You have to decide what it will be and the rules around that to decide the easiest for efficacy to achieve. There are many other things to feed into it so i will not presuppose with the secretary may or may not choose. Functionally at the county level, they have things called ballot manifest. We have ballot manifest spirit sided dice, 10 like from dungeons and dragons. You put those into the software. Those will give you a randomized version after put in all the ballot manifest. The computer will say in Spalding County, you pulled one ballot from batch three and Fulton County, two. In dority county, one ballot from batch 17 around the state until you get to the scientific number that says once you run these things through and a human being reads these, they write them down, they put the results into the system, it will give you a percentage of confidence that the outcome is correct. That is how that works. If it doesnt get to that percentage of confidence, it will do it all again for another round and add and add on till get to a confidence level. A recount is thats similar but very different. There are rules around that is well defined by the state election board. Every county would have to get there ballot prepared. We did do the investment to provide a highspeed, highcapacity scanner for every county, regardless of size. Big counties had multiple. I miss spoke slightly today. They will not take actual live ballots, they will create a test deck that they know the outcome for it. 42 for the president , 58 for joe biden or 56, and two for jurgensen. They run it through the scanner and say, thats the outcome we expected and then you clear the votes off because you know the scanner is operating properly. Then you take all the ballots regardless of where they came from, the absentee which is early vote or the bmd on alltion day, and they get the central scanners. The intent is, that count will be similar to the other one. Let me caution everybody, it is going to be a little different. It always is for every recount in the history of mankind. People look at machines differently. Not bentally, it will off, it will always be a little bit different. That is not suspicious. That is normal. Another thing is all the ballots that were adjudicated a different panel of human beings. That is another reason. Every one of these processes involve people. The least reliable part of these processes are people. Because we all make mistakes. If i have 1,000 votes will come up. If it is a computer count, it is the way it is. We kind of accept that. Doesnt mean there are things going. And we have to know that at the end of the day. What else we got . [indiscernible question] the investigators and we get all those all the time and think are very busy with those making these claims. My girlfriend said she sent me one at the dollar general. Every single one that comes in we are going to investigate. Doesnt mean things happened or not happened. We have to find evidence. And that is the main goal of our investigators when they go out there. Have you seen any evidence at all to back up claims of fraud . Fraud is a large, kind of thing. If there is evidence. Fraud is emotionally fraught word. To the people out there who are irritated with people talking about fraud, they should be now. Ly vote both are false and im telling you that because that is the truth. That illegal voting is going to happen. Its a minor part of this thing and putting safeguards that it doesnt happen now or in the future. Guess what, its going to happen and do everything we can. The software, the scanners, all of those worked exactly well. Human beings have to interact. 214 polling locations. Staffed by ten s of thousands of poll workers who had five million casting votes. Mistakes will be made. Thats going to happen. You have to be relate particular about that. And there is a highlight because of the sheer tightness. Anybody else . [indiscernible question] i wouldnt say there was mayhem but processing. In this state it is different. We do not send out unsole is ted ballots. Ugh to make ar request and there is first stop point on that. Then it has to be matched on the back end. In this state we know there will be some issues but nothing in the absentee and vast majority they voted in person. Anything else . Thank you all very much. Use your mobile devices, laptop or phone to follow the results. Balance ever power in congress, latest video on demand. O to c. Org election. 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