Paragraph 74 is what was burned into my brain, but I now see that was just for “some counties.” GIven this, seems like yet another Equal Protection argument can be woven into disparate recount techniques across GA.
I’m not positive on the definition of a hand RECOUNT vs. a hand AUDIT (what the SoS called “risk minimizing audit” or something like that). What I think happened was closer to the hand audit side of things than to a hand recount as the average person understands it (i.e. seeing, touching, and counting literally every ballot again). Most likely, they randomly selected a statistically meaningful number of ballots from each county/precinct/whatever and hand checked those (I still don’t think they verified signatures or ensured envelopes matched the ballots - illegal). If enough of those turned out to be acceptable - under whose watchful eye, I do not know - then the entire county/precinct/whatever was declared acceptable as well, and the entire batch of original ballots was re-counted with the machine. Some of this is speculation on my part based on what I read and heard around the time of the “hand recount” in GA. Correct me if I’m wrong.
I see where Powell claims some counties did a machine recount instead of a hand recount audit. I will wait to see those, but I would offer that this may be for local races where a recount was done. That would have been done by machine, just like the recount that Trump requested after the certification in Georgia will be a machine recount.
The SoS office has this article regarding the hand recount audit and even has links for downloading the results. SoS of Georgia re: Hand Recount Audit
Can you read a QR record? No; not likely.
Dominion Voting Systems ImageCast X, where you sit or stand, to mark your votes electronically, prints (via a connected laser printer), a “voter record.”
You see on the printed “voter record” areas (circle/ellipse/oval or such) that are filled according to your votes.
But, the Dominion Voting Systems ImageCast X also prints a QR code on your “voter record.”
You next take your ICX paper “voter record” over to a Dominion tabulator and feed your record into the tabulator.
The Dominion tabulator reads the QR record, NOT what you saw in the “fields” (cirle/ellipse/oval).
In order to *hand count* or *audit* such a “voter record”, the “voter record” must be fed into a scanner, so that the person and persons responsible for handling and observing this “voter record” can verify that:
a) what you saw on your “voter record” - the fields, filled
b) matches with the QR code THAT YOU CANNOT DECIPHER VISUALLY.
Ref. on the matter of how the Dominion ImageCast X works:
In the following setup, a Dominion system:
- creates a QR record that represents the marks made by the voter
- prints out an ICX paper “voter record” that the voter then takes to a Tabulator
The ICX paper “voter record” is NOT a paper ballot, unless the program in the machine is set up to print voter’s choices on an official paper ballot.
Dominion Voting Systems ImageCast X
https://verifiedvoting.org/election-system/dominion-imagecast-x/
ImageCast X Configuration #1 – Ballot Marking Device Only
When configured exclusively as a ballot marking device (which is how most jurisdictions deploy it), ImageCast X does not have scanning or tabulating capabilities. Accordingly, after reviewing choices on the summary page, the voter selects when to print a paper record of their choices. The paper record lists voters’ choice(s) in each contest (rather than all options, like a traditional format ballot), and ImageCast X encodes the voter choices in a non-human readable QR code.
To cast the vote, the voter must insert the paper record into a separate scanning tabulator. The scanner most commonly used with ImageCast X is the ImageCast Precinct.
Dominion tabulators for the ICX paper records always count votes by reading the computerized QR code, NOT the human-readable text that the voter sees.