Golden Eagle, how do you suggest to audit the machine count without hand counting the ballots? The risk limiting audit was carried out by hand counting the entire universe of paper ballots. The two "counts" were compared and the Dominion voting system passed the requirements to be considered validated in the state of Georgia.
Note that after the audit and Georgia certified the election, the Trump campaign then requested a recount. That is a different matter than the risk limited audit of the voting system. Nevertheless, the totals of ballots and who they were cast for was produced by the hand counting of the paper ballots and they were compared to the machine counts produced by the Dominion system.
Please also note that my posts deal with allegation of machine fraud in Georgia. You asked the following:
There's well established evidence these electronic voting companies have foreign ties, including foreign servers of their own that are involved in vote tabulation. Dominion has its headquarters in foreign country, for example. You really think that is acceptable, and beyond reproach?
In the Georgia 2020 election, none of the above had any impact on the Georgia election. Apparently Georgia's order of the Dominion system allowed us to have confidence in the system by producing paper ballots that could later be compared to the machine counts. That was a wise choice since we were able to demonstrate this confidence.
You also asked this:
So you still support Raffensburger, even knowing he made a secret under the table agreement with Democrats, to try to conduct the election in a manner that violated GA state law. Interesting.
Do you know what was agreed to here? I believe that this is in reference to signature matching on absentee ballot REQUESTS. I'm not extremely happy about it, but I think it was better than sending ballots to everyone.
I have been a Kemp supporter and I still am. I never had any opinion or really otherwise supported Raffensburger before the election. However I do think that his claim of being thrown under the bus is true.
You're still mixing distinct terms. A hand recount, is a type of recount. Recounts are a portion, but only portion, of an "audit." "Validate" (or invalidate) the machine count, would be a more appropriate term in this context, to avoid confusion.
But regarding the question, it simply can't be done easily or practically. The system that was used is flawed, to only use a machine code to count the ballot, when it is actually being counted. Unless the machine code itself, can be counted by something other than the machine that printed it, there is insufficient evidence to conclusively prove what vote was actually counted.
risk limited audit
This is another major flaw in the current process. There should be no limits placed on the audit. There should be a "full audit" which is a known and typical process. The Gov and SoS could order a full audit, but they won't. The question is why, since this is the proven best way to determine if fraud occurred. Instead, they want to conduct 2 basically meaningless recounts, and try to pass them off as "audits" when they are actually very "limited audits."
In the Georgia 2020 election, none of the above had any impact on the Georgia election.
Powell's suit filed last night provided documented proof from an expert witness that the GA machines had connections to foreign locations. Maybe you haven't seen that yet?
Apparently Georgia's order of the Dominion system allowed us to have confidence in the system by producing paper ballots that could later be compared to the machine counts.
We've already been over this. Until the QR codes themselves are validated or invalidated, by something other than a Dominion machine, you haven't actually recounted what was actually counted.
I never had any opinion or really otherwise supported Raffensburger before the election.
So you weren't aware of the lawsuit that was filed against him previously over the purchase of the Dominion machines? And in that lawsuit, Dominion exec stated under oath that the machines aren't to be modified unless they are re-certified, but it's now been admitted they did modify the code without recertification?
You also didn't address the under the table deal he made with Democrats, to violate state law in their favor, that I mentioned to you previously. How about his refusal to conduct a "full audit" of the vote, especially in light of these revelations?
There's even a new accusation if not lawsuit regarding his potential misappropriation of millions of dollars of some sort. Becoming a new media star on CNN doesn't inspire confidence either. But I'm sure you've got good long winded excuses for all that too, correct?