We had asked that we will be doing a risk limiting audit. Ive said since tuesday night is all about, this process and following the law as written. This is one of those scientific things where you can use math to get to a confidence level that the outcome of the election is correct. Case, therticular decision was made to do the president ial election. Haspress that many times said this is caving to trump in the campaign. This could not be further from the truth. We knew there was a specific purpose for an audit and the law. It was to instill confidence in the outcome of this election. If we were going to do it easier risk limiting audit, it would have probably undermined confidence in the outcome of the president ial election. Was 14,000 votes the other way, we would be doing the exact same thing. This is very important to understand. Right now, there are voters in this state and across the country that said those machines cheated or miscounted or somebody hacked them or something happens because there is no way that back i want are ost. Won or l anything you see that feeds your believe you believe. That is why we have chosen to do this audit in this way. This will be the largest hand retaliating retallying in the united states. There is an audit and there is a recount. Two separate sets of rules. Do this audit to to instill confidence. We have told you for over a year that you can trust accounts of these electronic machines. This audit will bear this out. Is there risk involved . Of course there is. Human beings are the most flawed part of this process. I guarantee you the numbers will be slightly different. We were doing a manual recount on all ballots. The marginal difference was about 100 in 2. 5 million. In this particular situation, we are in a better situation because usually we see changes on hand marked paper ballots. That is where human beings tend to make mistakes. We have hired some outside groups to help with the logistics. Either they are going out right this minute or we had our first call. I believe it was about an hour and a half. We got a very good understanding of this. They are to begin tomorrow at 9 00 a. M. And end on wednesday the 18th. These will be auditors. You have to contact the county if you want to be an observer. You can contact your state party to be an observer. This will be open to the public. There will be observers from both parties. As the audit teams are going through the ballots and making their stacks, they will compare the ballot. If they cannot discern the voters intent, it will be handed to an adjudication team. A highot anticipate number of those. There were not a lot statewide. Majority were in the senate contest. In the president ial contest, there were very few. This goes back to the misinformation and disinformation situation we are seeing in georgia and across the country. Whoe are 25,000 people chose to skip the president ial race. That is not surprising. People are talking about a differential. If you go county by county, you see different differentials. These things will even out. There is nothing very odd or ambiguous about that. Roles hadters on the a change of address. Federal law prohibits in massive list maintenance during an election year. There is nothing we can do. If senators can go look at this and help states clean their lists, it will help. Electronicned the Registration Information center that will allow us to do some more consistent cleaning. That is the beginning of the bedrock of the foundation of trust. I know there are many other parts of misinformation out there. Scorecard that i was quoting when i talked about director ofwas the the cyber and Infrastructure Agency under homeland security. This is him talking. Hoax. Nonsense and a if anything is being claimed is being claimed that something is being flipped by a secret computer, that is nonsense. There will be multiple audit teams. We will have observers from both parties. Of this will be the certified result. I will take any questions. Does your audit distinguish between those votes . They already do that. Keptbsentee ballots are separately in smaller batches. We will already know those. The batches should be able to do that. We can separate those out. Are you inviting a second recount from the Trump Campaign . Anyone whoe law, comes in second by less than half a percent can ask for a recount. The firstery close to time, there is a possibility of a computer recounting. The concern is everybody wants this count to be done accurately and on time. Do you have faith that they will be get it done in a timely manner . We are confident. We have done those before. They have the expertise in this. We are working with the counties to make sure they have the manpower in place. We are aiming for the 18th. Be releasing new result counts as they come in. We will be releasing the senate ballots that got through. When you are looking at batches, it will be similar to what we saw before. We will start with absentees. They are the most problematic. On day one, we will look at each other and say, i dont know if we can make those. But as time goes, the speed will pick up. We are moving to the ballot marking devices. They are a lot easier. There are procedures in place. We will have to have sanity checks to make sure nothing is going off the rails. We have timelines set for everybody. The big counties have resources. We brought in a Logistics Firm to help some of these mediumsize counties. To make sure they have the ability to do that. The costs will be borne by the counties right now. We can help take some of that burden off of the counties. Is the process of challenging ballots in the audit the same . There is no process of challenging ballots in the audit. Is that the same . These rules are different. I do not know the recount rules that well. Can you describe the measures in place to leave a paper trail . Everyone one of these has to be sealed. Even when they are doing the ballot checks themselves, they bring in every person who will be moving ballots. When the auditors get there, they will have a valid tally heet. Ballot tally s they will reseal the boxes on the way back out. The only difference is that they go to adjudication. Those will go to the adjudication teams. They will be kept in separate envelopes and tied back to that original box of ballots. Ll of this is documented we brought up double loading. Voting. Well the audit be able to identify and weed out any of those . No, this is an audit of the ballots that came out legally. If anyone has cast their ballot who is dead, that is a violation of the law. There is no way to tie this back to individual human beings. I will get you a better mask next year so you dont have to go through all of this. You are considering specific ballots. We start again with a new count. In some counties, the ballots match. N sum, they dont there will be a cleaner way to get to a final result. Will it change some . I have said in every conference, yes. The outcome will change slightly. We have bigger issues to worry about. We want to get it right. It is not happening. This is a rationale for the audit to begin with. Is the secretary of state quarantined . I will not speak to the Health Concerns of family members of anyone elected or on our staff. I think they can speak for themselves. I will probably get tested. To confirm. Place we are talking about voting. , we have athe case wide staff. The work of this recount is being done at the county level. That is where the boots on the ground are. The men and women who stood behind him at that conference are the ones who are doing the real work. They have to make sure they have the tables ready to go. Are asking them to stream this thing live so people can see the process as it happens. We are working every day to be as transparent as we can. My hope and prayer is that we cannot move deadlines. We have a federal dropdead certification deadline. [indiscernible] no need to rescan qr codes. You are looking at the name. That is what they are stacking. The whole point is if you can counted out, it comes out the same, it speaks for itself. That is the whole point of the audit. [indiscernible] there are two ways to do this. If you go back and listen to this,cs who discovered you have to go to a full hand read tally. Retally. We could have set it at zero. But lets get some perspective. You havet it at 10 , to pull 1. 5 million ballots. Easier totionally and do them all. If we want to, we can set it to zero. You get past 15 , you may as well do the whole ring. We would have chosen to do this if biden was the one behind by 14,000 votes. All of the people yelling right now about these machines in these margins being close, if the situation was reversed, the same thing would be happening on the others. The yearsen that over as social media puts us into our own bubbles. It always seems to be ratcheting up that way. There are people in your position in other states that have received death threats. In an abundance of caution, we will make sure that our office and employees are secure. Was a situation yesterday with a reporter and a cameraman that were put in harms way. That should not happen. Put out the idea that it is ok to intimidate people. This gives voters the right and accurate results. Regardless about him. [indiscernible] it will be difficult. We have a lot of safeguards in place. A lot of processes in place. All cybersecurity begins with physical security. We have to have a unique user id, password. We get that data to check people in. The election Management Systems used never touch the internet. Four Voter Registration systems. It is always changing every day. This office spends a lot of time making sure that the equipment involved is secure. With the counties, training people. The dense decentralized nature of voting in georgia is safe itself. Gone from 50 state targets to one. We fully anticipate that the potential threat level in the state will increase. To the nature of our law when it comes to registration. To come and help georgia do the right thing. Vote in georgia, you have to be a georgia resident. You cant be a canvasser for bloomberg or the koch brothers. It is a felony. Georgiaant to move to to be part of the number one state in america, we are happy to have you. But if you are here solely for politics, if you voted for senate in one state and another state, that could potentially go before the courts. Dont game our system. The secretary of States Office will stand with the Attorney Generals Office if you are gaming our system. [indiscernible] no. [laughter] the final instructions just went out. It would be difficult. We have given them a lot of things they have to print. We know there will be observers. They need to make sure they are there. I feel confident that our counties have exit did everything so well. Frankly, 95 of them did a great in june. 70 of the issues in june were in one county. To go myself because they uploaded the results without doing the reconciliation. It is silly things like this that undermine confidence. It is boring and tedious but it is vitally important. [indiscernible] they will be the weak link. All you can do is try to mitigate it. By doing the batches and keeping the sanity checks in. Ofthere is something out place, we will try to address that. They will make mistakes. Whoe are people out there will not believe the outcome. What happens if the counties missed their deadline . That is a hypothetical that does not pertain to us yet. All counties will begin counting tomorrow . The office shall begin tomorrow at 9 00 a. M. We dont want people waiting until monday. We went to get the show on the road. We are turning daylight every hour. That has movedt to the point of a hand reta llying. It is not a recount, because that is a separate statute. Thank you. Use your mobile devices, laptop, or phone and go to our website for easy access to election results. Video, live and ondemand. The Federalist Society is hosting a discussion this a former Justice Department officials on the rule of law. Watch live coverage. Also online or on our radio avenue app