See the bolded portion above. That is exactly what the risk limiting audit was about. The SoS chose to order a 100% hand count of the paper ballots. But realize, Georgia insisted on the paper ballot for exactly this purpose. It worked just exactly as intended, and I don't see a lot of light to jam a knife into the results where it concerns Dominion in the state of Georgia. It looks like for the 2020 election PROCESS that just as the SoS said, the election was our best ever. I can't really argue that as regards the voting system. I think where we would find problems would be in the absentee ballots.
Here is what the SoS had to say concerning the Absentee Ballots. Realize that in Georgia you had to request an absentee ballot to vote by absentee ballot. There were a tightening of regulations where ID was required to request a ballot electronically. I believe there is controversy in the requesting by mail, as the absentee ballot was granted without significant verification measures (I think signature matching at this point of the process was not required to process the ballot request). Then we have the processing of the received absentee ballots. The largest grievance here is access to observe how all of this was done and the rejection of invalid ballots. Note the SoS's statement regarding that.
Okay, fair enough. I think we agree that the GA SOS ordered something that was meaningless in the grand scheme of detecting election fraud in its myriad forms. Perhaps what his “risk limiting audit” did was successfully verify the Dominion machines operated as expected, although I’m still not entirely convinced and won’t be until a forensic audit on the code happens. The whole lack of an audit log intrinsic to these machines worries me as do anecdotes about election officials scanning weird barcodes on the Dominion-printed ballots. We’ve held elections without computerized gadgets for most of our history and should not fix or obfuscate what isn’t broken.
Dominion is what it is. With so much other crap going on in GA and elsewhere, I’ve always found this line of attack to be unnecessary, unwieldy, and a bit too far-fetched to be effective under these time-sensitive circumstances (not impossible to conceive of, however). There are clear and provable Constitutional violations created by rogue state government actors; these should be the focus. This is why I prefer Lin’s lawsuit to Sidney’s. At this point, I don’t think we need to prove Trump got 80 million votes; all we need to prove is when the LEGAL votes are counted he received more than Biden in a few of the contested states.
How are you feeling about the legitimacy of the GA Senate runoffs? They are definitely a source of angst in my mind.