Georgia election officials hosted a dice roll to launch an audit of votes in last week's election for secretary of state.
Saturday, November 19, 2022 3:18AMMillions of Americans are heading to the polls Tuesday to cast their votes in the pivotal 2022 midterm elections.Georgia election officials hosted a dice roll at the state Capitol on Wednesday to launch an audit of votes in the recent election for secretary of state.One by one, people chosen randomly from a basket of names came up to a table and rolled a 10-sided die.
Officials say the goal of the audit is to verify that the outcome of the secretary of state's race was correct and more broadly, to boost confidence in elections. Gabe Sterling, a top official in the secretary of state's office, said the dice roll was part of an effort to make the process of choosing vote batches as random as possible.
"We won't know in advance, so the counties can't go, 'I'll make sure this batch is perfect and all the other ones are crap,'" he said.
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