An audit of ballots cast in Cherokee County in the May 24 primary and June 21 runoff elections confirmed the county’s certified results, the county’s election department reported. The elections board initiated a risk-limited audit, conducted Wednesday and Thursday, of all early voting May 24 primary ballots at the Oak Grove precinct and June 21 Election Day ballots for the Democratic lieutenant governor runoff and the two Republican school board runoffs at the county’s Dixie, Hillside, Neese, Clayton, R.T. Jones and Teasley precincts. The precincts, other than Oak Grove, were selected at random. Elections officials initially planned to audit four precincts plus Oak Grove early voting to audit 10% of the precincts, the elections department said, but due to low numbers they added two precincts, for a total of seven audited precincts. The overall margin of error was 1.69%, with 294 votes separating the audit total and the total for those precincts as tabulated by the voting machines, Elections Director Anne Dover said. “We were very pleased with the outcome of the audit,” she said in an email. “The margin of error was 1.69%. This difference is well below the 10% mark we had set, and is below the State’s margin of error that was given to us for the November 2020 hand count, which was 5%.”
Georgia: Judge: Trump knew his voting fraud stats were inaccurate | avid Wickert/The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Then-President Donald Trump knew claims that thousands of people voted illegally in Georgia were inaccurate when he included them in a lawsuit that sought to overturn Joe Biden’s victory here, a federal judge ruled Wednesday. In a December 2020 lawsuit filed in Fulton County Superior Court, Trump claimed 10,315 dead people, 2,560 felons and 2,423 registered voters cast ballots illegally in the presidential election. He later incorporated those claims when he contested the Fulton County proceedings in U.S. District Court in Atlanta. But correspondence among his attorneys shows Trump knew the statistics were false by the time he vouched for them in the federal lawsuit. In Wednesday’s ruling, a federal judge in California found that Trump’s false verification of the voting fraud statistics in Georgia was part of an effort to delay the Jan. 6, 2021, congressional certification of Biden’s victory. He made the determination after reviewing hundreds of emails that a Trump attorney sought to withhold from the congressional committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. And he ordered some of the emails to be released to the committee. “The emails show that President Trump knew that the specific numbers of voter fraud were wrong but continued to tout those numbers, both in court and to the public,” U.S. District Judge David O. Carter wrote. “The court finds that these emails are sufficiently related to and in furtherance of a conspiracy to defraud the United States.”
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