I chose the above to respond to. To claim that counties did not hand recount would be admission to breaking the law. They hand recounted because they had no other way to count the ballots. The video you linked is 5 hours plus long. If someone in that video says they didn't hand count, why didn't observers out them at the time? I'll look at it if you find where in the video I should look.
So in response to the above, the claim of the certification numbers are easily explained. Here is the process first for discussion.
1. Hold the election and produce the results.
2. Certify the results.
3. Conduct any requested and allowed recounts.
However, in Georgia, there was something else placed between 1 and 2. That was the RLA which was the 100% hand recount. That was not part of the process but rather a check or "audit" of the voting system hardware purchased by the State of Georgia.
The RLA turned up errors in certain Counties. Those errors should have been turned up in the initial counting of votes. I believe in the cases where votes weren't counted and votes incorrectly counted, they fixed the results. Otherwise, the hand recount checked the results done with the Dominion system.
Not unexpectedly, the hand recount came up with different final totals than the machine counts. However, the differences were not very much and in every case reported as part of the audit. The result of Biden having more votes was confirmed by the audit.
In the cases where there was a difference between the machine count (step 1 of the process) and the audit (the injected audit step of the process) for a County, the SoS office said to report and certify the machine count. So yes, the hand count totals were not used in reporting the vote counts, but that made no difference in the election outcome. If you are interested I can post up the sum total of all the differences by County that the RLA turned up. But to do step 2 of the process above, the machine counts were used and not the hand counts. That is because the hand counts verified the machine counts to be very accurate. Hate to say it, but that is the truth as far as counting goes.
I pointed out the first testimony on the video.
She does say there was a hand recount. I’d have to hunt around for the ones which made reference to feeding the ballots through the scanning machines to come up with their numbers for the handcount. They were clearly using a very modified definition of ‘handcount’.
Here is the testimony on the video in regards them matching:
Latham was asked if the hand recount matched the machine count in Coffee County, GA? She responded by saying, “The big difference came in the re-certification when we had to do the recount,” explaining “The problem was, is they could never re-duplicate what happened on election night,” adding, “and every time they ran the numbers, they got another number.” Latham told the Committee members that of the 15,000 votes, they couldn’t get the same number of votes any of the five times that they recounted them. She explained that the variance of the unmatched number of votes all five times was “around 50.”
Latham told the Committee that none of the machine counts of the votes matched the hand-count or election night results.
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Latham added that all of the supervisors in these [6 of 8 counties whose election officials she spoke with] counties are willing to sign affidavits to confirm that they were forced to certify their votes [even though the 6 did not match].