Board together from floyd county to basically rescan all the early votes back out of the Election Night reporting system and election Management System and then put it back in after the rescan it. Also looks like they mismanaged their provisional votes as well. So walter, can you take care of the allowing reporting for this right now . Im not sure how to do that on my appear with making a recording of this, too. They will be doing that hopefully today and another very get the board together to handle the logistics of that end up with those expecting things back into what we call the rcr, the results and tally reporting which was into the election in that reporting. Thats with that stance right knee. I mentioned yesterday which was getting lost unless we did open two investigations into Fulton County. With that we are going to lets see. We are going to be putting in new results in which will be aggregated into the results you see on the actual sos site and that will hopefully happen today. So real quick, on the chat side, are you all alone recording . Have you already accomplished that . No, not yet. We are recording on our end though. Your host. Let me do something. Doesnt look like have the ability to do that. Miles, maybe he knows about and bush. Miles, you can unmute now. At have you got . I feel very special, thank you very much. Go to your list and you have to individually allow recording for each of the participants. Theres a little series of dots you can pull and it will give you allow recording to each of us and we can all record, okay . Ari, walter the host has to do this by the way. I can do it. Sure, i will go to your window and allow you to record. Lets just let everybody on. We all want to record, thats a given. There are 80 of you right now so it will take a bit. I will start over again and i apologize, trying to get through and the nextel press conference is the kind of annoying. We get that. But think of it heads up on had to do that, miles. Us guys with gray hair do know how to do things sometimes. Let me renew myself because on under our executive assistance name right now. How do i do that next i get it yesterday before hand. A little wary for people to see her name under my name. The room, i did something technological. Good. Where are we with of you would on the recording stuff . Does anybody have it yet . Not yet. It is taking a bit. Okay. I apologize. We are all getting through these things and yesterday really had like 15 of the author we have 85 today so its a lot more but i will sort over over once we get to the process, okay . In the meantime you can be thinking of really penetrating questions you want to get to. I did take some again is running an old episode of in the heat of the night which i was worried theyre trying to bomb our thing, i couldnt tell. Not sure who that was. Ari come how are we coming . Slowly but surely. Again, we apologize. Our goal is to make elections board again. Right now it is not obviously. Hopefully we get to see the dogs play this weekend. Whereas it could cause some problems. This weekend is South Carolina and my fiance is for the gamecocks. Last year they beat us in a surprise upset. All right. Lets see. Ari, up . If you want to start through these. They move around a bit so i might miss some here and there. Its like a game of whackamole. Basically. Mute yourself up for a second or i will start over again and basically any mh more cleanly explain the situation in floyd county is being addressed. Working to pull their election board together to allow for the rescan of all of the early votes. Back out they will back up the results they had an election reporting and interrtr whi is the results tally reporting and put the new result income at that to election venturesome, pull that out and that will even out those numbers. What will happen since we have seen the raw numbers, unofficl obviously, was 14,156 was the deficit that president was facing against former Vice President biden, and there was a net pickup of 778 votes it appears on this one. Of the new defic will be ,378. It does not affect the runoff. Its the number of vot or similar withenator perdue as to what they need to avoid a runoff for when the election of four. They are tracked very close together so is about the sink differential nowhat senator perdue would have to get to meet that issue. So that is that particular in floyd county, it is being addressed, the audit work to compound the issue they were very troubled on these things. There was an additional issue with how they scanned the provisional ballots and looks likehey had two batch issues and the scant three bches which means a third more provisional ballots we porting the bishopric we dont, but those also be rescanned. I dont think a digesting it was overshadowed by the floyd county issue wasn Fulton County we are openingp specific investigations,ne was how it handled the toilet the, water liquid if you want to call it at state farm arena. What that how tt was handled. A lot of confusion around that. Secondarily how they would use with monitors and people on those lines. Its one of the specific issues whe the dissent degree within and monitors has some issues they wanted to pnt out. There were some chain of custody issues around the absentee ballots. Lets see it. They were bounced around rooms and generally bad management. Things you saw in flo were bad management we see som of things in fulton. We are investigating it. The hour and a half and looks like we wil debate of farm arena to see if theres actually a time when their scanning and ocessing when the monitor had either been told to leaver understood they were supposed to leave. We are investigating that as we. Looks like theyre violating Consent Order we entered in within a n cause more confusn on election day and prior to election day. So fulton count will continue to investigate for those anthony potentl violations Consent Order we entered into was after the june election prior to the november election. I want to go over some statistics again we saw ncerning absentee ballot and signature matching. Georgia entered a Consent Decree that essentially did o thing and one thing only. It allowed for 11 days from election instead of giving three days to inform a a voter theres an issue with her blot. Its down to 24 hours. In your within 1 days of election that is the one and only thing that Consent Order address. In any real way. Just to give you some context about this, in 2016 there were 580 that were missing or had an inaccurate posting with signature basically out of 246,000. In 2,018,000. In 2018 to were 454 out of 284,000, and in 2020, 2011 out of 1. 3 billion. They all bounced around about about. 15 so pretty consistent the numbers you are seeing some 3 rejection rat versus 5 rejection rate but they are comparing apples to oranges. The biggest chunks of ballots rejected account as rejected showed up after the 7 p. M. Deadline. That is where the majority of rejections come from. Fo signature matches always runnground. 5. 15, 2. 2 . That is a normal thing weve seen in george and also a situation where republicans and democrats alike get these lists of people who have absentee ballot secure and they send people around toelp them with the bowsprit weaw that because of his concernsuddenly showed up they had a photo id, photocopie of the photo ids, matched up so saw a lot of that cheering occurred. But it is unfortunate. We are still seen management sues. They did better but still have major issues that a ver big concerns for us. Another thing we wanted to make sure we have been talking about them working of certifying this election and then move into, we ve to do this so we can geto the ballots on saturday to follow the federal law to be 45 days up from the january 5 election. Weve got to get this thing certified. We feel we a on a good schedule now with the audit. They are following the law, following the pross and this is what i been saying from the beginning as the sector has instructed us to follow the law and it is process process process. Is is a very well defin i think we are going through. The audit was in the law. Where following that. It allows us to do handount. Let me again o the hand count, there people out there conspicy there is cities tour codis ipping. The whole point is you look at whats on the ballot. The hand marked ballot and 1. 3 million of those for the 3. 7 million from dmv. Youre looking at the name. Those are theeffen names, handing it to the person next to them and they are physically counting them as human beings to assure what was scanned is actually correct. So far we are seeing that in the vast majority of the counties. Some of them are off by one or two which you expect when human beings do the trick the audit is going well. We are at 4. 7 going at a little over 5illion votes cast. So to say, midnight into wednesday. The first step is this physical counting process. They had to get to that process and then we have a Quality Control process to make sure did you put your data entry and correct . Are your tally sheets correct . Eres a lot of moving parts but voting works if youre on the ground. We have a lot of people and helping to make sure type process, many of the counties come back spot did on that the more no more votes, no less vote and the counts counter cof the same other counties come when financing for a lot of these eleions they are perfectionistic if theyre off by three to want to forget why fear off by three. It could be a simple as if you have absentee ballots and two of them stuck together within wite machine together one time and you will never be able to know the difference on thatut those are the kinds of things use in an election. Another thing i want to make clear, there will have been illegal votes cast. We know that. In every scene election in history of mankind the would be illegal votes cast. We he not seen any evidencef 13,378 of those cast. We know there are some double voters. We dug int some of that and realized that. It was in creor by counties with the tag peoplehe wrong way. Another thing weve seen is potential ellen vote up the some of those people might be in a position where the rights are fully restored to vote. We have investigators physically trking though stanford understand w have these things as an example without a double voters in the june and august elections. We sent investigators in. We have 24 investigators, two, o specifically test for just election stuff in the state eltion board. Its going to take some time to get through all of this but again we see nothing that indicates there is a hh peentage of such a High Percentage that wld change the outcome of the vote. Our goal is that the claims ssible election and if anybody has any reports of actual regularities irregularities are investigators will investigate. Another thing iant to picture the sector islear on what everybody is we have again seen more democrats even in calirnia talk that coming to georgia and voting in our elections. Derstand if your goal is to, just to put an election, then go back to your residcy. You are violating state law. Secondarily, this is another potentl case i know may come up, its somebody moves from one stateith a cast a vote for for sin into another state to tryo cast another vote for the same body that would be seated, that would potentially violent trendy constitution because you can get two dferent sets of votes to seat body that would be seated in january. There will potentially be issue along that front as well. Our gl is to the cleaners and fairest election we cant and give people the undstanding of faith that the outcome is actually the ocome, that the winner is the winner in the person who came in second pce came in second pce. To get head at some of the other questions this and audit were doing is for the stateo move certification. Under our state law the secondplace finisher if they are within. 5 or lower percent of the vote of the firstplace finisher, may ask for a recount. That recount would follow our state election board rules and essentially weve already procured a a highspeed highcapacity central scanner for every single county because we did a pretty good job of negotiating and getting the prices down the region will do we get get our new system, bring paper to georgia. What they would do is theyould create a test deck if you would say you would have 50 trump 44 biden and ten for jo jorgeen. You a mix ofarked and hand out you run through the scanner can get the report, verifying the scan is done improperly and it will be 50 trump, 40 biden, ten for jorgenson a your clear that out. You put your tally back to zero and then you scan every single ballot again through those things. A large counts of multiples of these and one of the family to go back we are sending additial highspeed scanners to fluid can of the can get through the process of scaing were quickly than doing it all on the same scanner. Wee getting logistical part of that than to help them get t results more quickly. We want to get these things done. We feel we are on a good path. The audit is moving at face and by t fact were down t the last 300,000 or so of the hand counting we feel very good we can look for in iues can look for any anomalies, find where they mighte, correct them on the day the second corct them on a counting site and have full audit available by our deadline is wednesday at midght. Then move to the certification face going into friday. With that i will open up at your questions and the way were going t do this is walter and ari wl go through your chat, let you, unmute people one at a time but we dont want people talking over each other. Lets start off with that, okay . What have got, ari or walter . Actually its quicker if people raise their hand, use the hand. I see miles is a good raising his hand. So maybe you can unmute him. Steve come here first. He got it. Unmute stephen. I got miles. You have to unmute yourself. I just did. Can you . Yes. Excellent, excellent. Gabe, just clarify a point for me. The risklimiting audit, which became, its been called a recap really is a recount, et cetera. Youre still calling it an audit, quick . I hand audit, yes. Will the numbers you get to buy midnight tomorrow, will te anyway impact or change the numbers you certify on the 20 . The intent as you know an audit is there to verify the results that were reported to the election Management Systems. Knowing that human beings on the flawed part of this process the intent would be we would say the numbers and also state will require we go by precinct is the way to get precinct level out of the tool. We are not changing the results based on the hand count that it is verifying the results that have been recorded. That is the intent were following to follow state law and keeps us in in a clean waye to the precinct results as our final certified results. So it wont change the actual certified number . Was correct. People are still doing the floyd county thing we will do that, they have the ability to go through make sure they have all their provisional kind of thing isnt right for the most part we will see changes mood for other than the floyd county thing more than likely. Youre good at explaining this and i think the thing i heard most recently is iranian to observers as it was around the three or four counties was why are not safe verifying signatures . I tried to explain to people given my limited knowledge that that happened a long time ago and no signatures on bowels. Could you just explain and clear this up . This seems to be a lot of confusion on the secrecy of ballots and where the ballots have identification on them. Thanks for the question, miles. Essentially the process is of this. You make a request. Theres basically to make signature verifications or identification verification that happens. Thats step one and thats when the request dies. Theother item is this , you need your drivers license number and a unique pin identifier that allows us to say this is a person, this is who they are, their drivers license matches their registration form. Thats another way you can get the county to send. You make your choices, you folded up,put it in the sleeve and you put that paper sleeve and a secret envelope in the actual return envelope and on that retard envelope , it says i uphold the law and that gets sent back to the county so the county then has the new request form plus all the other signatures to compare that to and that is what the verification at that time and then they go into the other treasury systems to say this is a match, we have now accepted this ballot. They then remove the secrecy envelope from the ballot, that in the Georgia State constitution requires ballot secrecy. The actual ballot goes back to that arrest original signature because georgia law does not allow for that. They then keep those envelopes on record for two weeks. They keep those requests on record for two weeks and then to go back and look if theres anything on discovery if you look at those things, theres nothing stopping them from doing that if they show any evidence to do that. Right now its for the counties to go back and recertify signatures they already certified so i think thats an explanation of where we stand on this and one of the things we did this year with representatives of the Georgia Bureau of investigations is the county had additional training to explore signature match but one of the things the secretary wants to look at as a less subjective way to identify voters. We like the portal because you know the firm has this number, its a really good way to potentially tighten up activity of this in the long term so thank you for that question. Jean scanlon, i think this is the questionthat many others are having as well. Im pretty positive the state has been saying that the audit, the result of the audit is what would be certified so is it different now that the that going to be theoriginal . There are people in the law trying to understand the best way to follow the law and make sure weve got the results in that would be here and follow the law. Theres not really a way to have a specific thing saying the outcome will need to be certified results,we dont have that in georgia right now. We have a recount or handoff like this and it may be the final number but right now audit is going to verify the results and especially just logistically, theres no way to get those results and its at the precinct level. Going back and forth with lawyers, this is the first time weve done this in 20 years so its not like were going to go down the path and we rethought it and said theres a morse legally stable way. One quick followup, just i think based on what you said previously, i dont know if i understand correctly but sending more ballots before the county because they are not hound hand counting all the early voted ballots there. Theyre audit right now, weve discovered issues so were scanning those ballots. All the early ballots back and it looks