Raffensperger Announces Primary Runoff Risk Limiting Audit Confirms Accurate Vote Count
Atlanta - Beginning last Thursday, county election officials in all of Georgia’s 159 counties hand counted randomly selected ballots as part of the statewide audit of the June 16th General Primary and Nonpartisan General Election Runoff. The purpose of the audit was to confirm the accuracy of the results for the Republican US Senate and Democratic Lieutenant Governor’s races.
Overall, 401 batches were counted. Among the hand-counted results, there was over 99.99% alignment with the machine count, which is well within the expected margin of error for hand count.
Below is a comparison of the vote totals for each candidate for the batches that were audited:
Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger praised county election directors for their work.
“The Risk Limiting Audit is a vital part of election security and public trust, and a testament to the dedication of our local election officials across Georgia’s 159 counties,” Secretary Raffensperger said. “Our mission is to provide the public with verifiable confirmation of election outcomes, and I’m grateful to the hardworking election professionals in Georgia who continue to deliver the most trusted elections in America.”
CLICK HERE for a report with audit summary data.
CLICK HERE for a zip file with all ballot manifests and CLICK HERE for a zip file with all machine batch tallies. This includes all batches statewide, including those that were audited. You can confirm that these were the same batch tallies that we started the audit with by performing a SHA256 hash of the file and matching it to the tweet from Gabriel Sterling (@GabrielSterling) from 06/25/2026 at 3:58 PM.
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Georgia is recognized as a national leader in elections. It was the first state in the country to implement the trifecta of automatic voter registration, at least 17 days of early voting (which has been called the “gold standard”), and no-excuse absentee voting. Georgia continues to set records for voter turnout and election participation, seeing the largest increase in average turnout of any other state in the 2018 midterm election and record turnout in 2020, and 2022. 2022 achieved the largest single day of in-person early voting turnout in Georgia midterm history utilizing Georgia’s secure, paper ballot voting system. Most recently, Georgia ranked #2 for Election Integrity by the Heritage Foundation, a top ranking for Voter Accessibility by the Center for Election Innovation & Research and tied for number one in Election Administration by the Bipartisan Policy Center.