Q: What was your impression of how election day had proceeded in Georgia?
A: On election day in November, our election went remarkably smooth. In fact, we meet at the GEMA headquarters, that's the Georgia Emergency Management Association meeting location. We were following wait times in line in the afternoon. Our average wait time was 3 minutes and it actually got down to 2 minutes. At the end of the day, we thought that we had a successful election from a standpoint of the administration and the operation of the election.
Rep. Adam Schiff begins asking questions of Raffensperger
Q: Secretary Raffensperger, did Joe Biden win the 2020 presidential election in Georgia, and by what margin?
A: President Biden carried the state of Georgia by approximately 12,000 votes.
Q: Mr. Secretary, as I understand it, your office to several steps to ensure the accuracy of the vote count in Georgia, reviewing the vote count in at least three separate ways. These steps include a machine recount, a forensic audit, and a full hand recount of every one of the five million ballots cast. Did these efforts, including a recount of literally every ballot cast in the state of Georgia, confirm the result?
A: Yes they did. We counted the ballots, well the first tabulation would be scan (???). When we did our 100% hand audit of the entire all 5 million ballots in the state of Georgia, all cast in place, all absentee ballots. They were all hand recounted and they came remarkably close to the 1st count. And then, upon the election being certified, President Trump, because the election was within a half percent, could ask for a recount. We recounted them again through the scanners and we got remarkably the same count. All three counts showed that President Trump did come up short.