Secretary of state brad raffensperger has long argued that the dominion voting system machines used in georgia are more accurate than paper ballots, and now he has proof. A unique ballot-image audit conducted across all 159 counties after the november 5 elections found discrepancies on only 87 out of nearly 5.3 million ballots cast. Remarkably, all but one of these discrepancies were found on hand-marked paper ballots.
“The ballot-image audit shows again that the votes in georgia were counted accurately, securely, and quickly,” raffensperger said. “Our system works accurately and can be trusted.”
The audit covered all 1,955 races in georgia, including 295 state or federal races and 1,660 local contests. The only issue with machine ballots occurred with a write-in vote in a local race, where the vote was incorrectly assigned to a candidate already on the ballot.
Additionally, the audit confirmed that the qr codes on paper backup ballots were 100% accurate. Despite some criticism of qr codes as confusing for voters, the georgia general assembly passed legislation this year to remove them in time for the next election cycle.