 I think we'll get started. Good morning everyone and thanks for attending the Vermont 2020 General Election Audit. As most of you probably know and are aware, we had to postpone this from December when it was previously scheduled because of COVID. And part of it was that we were having the surge, but so was the Boston and Massachusetts area. So we consulted with Dr. Levine at the Department of Health and the decision was made to postpone it. Despite the challenges posed to our election process in 2020, Vermonters rose to the occasion voting and record shattering numbers during a global pandemic. Our decision to mail a ballot to every active registered voter resulted in new records both for early voting and for total turnout. Vermonters were able to vote safely and securely without needing to decide between putting their health at risk, the health of their communities at risk, or exercising their constitutional right to vote. The audit of the 2020 General Election results will be, we will be performing today, is a best practice and has been required by state statute since 2006. The purpose of today is to verify the accuracy of the official results reported in November. It is an important administrative process which serves to build trust in the integrity and security of the Vermont elections process. We conduct the audit transparently, open to all members of the public who wish to attend, whether in person or virtually. Thanks to Orca Media, this audit will be live streamed, allowing us to make the process even more transparent for those who cannot attend in person, but who do wish to watch from home today or at a later date. Audits are again, are a best practice utilized across the country following the general election, while the specific process by which an audit is performed may vary from state to state. There are several characteristics which all reputable audits will share. One, transparency, which I've just mentioned. Two, independence. We are proud to partner with our trusted vendor, ClearBallot, to conduct this audit. ClearBallot has a national reputation for excellence and years of experience, including conducting our previous two audits in 2016 and 2018. The equipment being used today is completely different from the work, from the, and independent from the equipment that we used in the 2020 general election. These are not the same scanners, they're not the same systems. And that's an important aspect for auditing any system. Third is security. By law, every ballot cast in the 2020 general election must be sealed and secure ballot bags and stored by the town and city clerks in Vermont in their vaults for 22 months. This is a federal mandate. The bags are sealed with tamper proof tags and there is a chain of custody and getting them to the polling place today. We can authorize the clerks to open a ballot bag if, one, they sealed the original entrance checklist in the bag by mistake. Or two, they sealed the tabulator memory card into the bag. Or three, an SOS authorized audit such as this. And for any other reason, it would require a court order. Recounts are overseen by the courts so that opening bags for a recount is done by court order. Fourth, we have statistical confidence. The method by which we conduct this audit produces a very high degree of statistical confidence in the results. We will be verifying today the results for every ballot and every race in all seven towns. Prior to 2000, I think it was 12 or 14, we only did two races, a federal race and a state race and those were the only two races that we did. We now do every race, every ballot in the towns that have been randomly selected. Our random selections this time around are Brandon, Pownal, Randolph, Topsam, Warren, Worcester and South Burlington's Chittenden 7-4 district. The ballot bags are delivered either directly here, there are two towns that brought them today right here to this location or they are delivered to the custody of our office and our elections team took control of them. Today, one at a time, and I stress one at a time, we will break the seals and open those ballot bags and using the distinctly different tabulators that we have here today, conduct a full count of every ballot cast which shall be inclusive of every race on that ballot. We will then compare the audit results to those certified election results and we have copies of those over here reported to us by the town clerks in November. In the years since we started doing this, we have never seen any significant abnormalities between the audited results and the official results. In fact, in most cases, we find that the tabulator town counts are more accurate than hand count and that's not a knock on hand count, it's just the truth. Of course, if anything is unusual is found, that would trigger the need to investigate and determine the cause and that would be done if we've received anything like that, we would take the initial look at it but turn it over to the Attorney General's office. We never expect that to be the case but it's important to understand that state law does govern the steps to be taken if there are significant unexplainable discrepancies. We will have a chance to review the results of the audit in real time on the screen above as we move between towns. Once the audit is complete, the ballots will be resealed in the ballot bags and returned as per the statutory retention requirements and returned to the towns. Before we begin, I wanna quickly introduce our Vermont Secretary of State election staff and our independent auditing team. So we have Chris Winters, my Deputy Secretary of State, Will Sending the Vermont's Director of Elections, standing up there. Our fearless team of election administrators, Lori Bjornlin, who organized much of these proceedings for today, JP Isabel and Lelani Oatway right over here. I have to say, I wanna give a little bit of a shout out to my elections team. We have the smallest election team in the country with five people. They are truly our election rock stars. We also count as part of our, fortunate of our team is our town clerks and city clerks from around the state of Vermont. We could not do an election process without those town clerks and city clerks. They are really the backbone of our election system. And lastly, my chief of staff, Eric Covey. Everybody worked round the clock during the 2020 election cycle so that Vermont voters could vote safely and securely. And that starts with the town clerks, they're boards of civil authority, right on up through to our team here. From Clear Ballot, we have Keir Holman, who's Vice President of Technical Services, James Rundlett, National Sales Manager, Jay Ballenbacker, Audit Program Manager, Ira Margulis, where's the Regional Account Manager and Dylan Sleith, the Field Support Technician. He's hiding behind his laptop over there. I also wanna extend a huge thank you again to Orca Media for being here today and for helping assist our mission to deliver government transparency to the people of Vermont. It is only through this open and transparent process that we can continue to build the public's faith in the integrity of our election system and its institutions. The 2020 election was the most divisive election I have ever experienced in my lifetime. And before you give me a hard time about my age, I'm not that old, but I am old enough to have experienced a fair number of elections. This was also the most secure, most heavily scrutinized election in recent US history, if not ever. And that goes across this country. Election officials worked tirelessly under a microscope in the midst of a pandemic to do what is a very difficult job in a normal year. We consider it a great year if there's no news, so other than the results. However, some individuals with personal or political agendas continue to use misinformation, disinformation, and unfounded conspiracy theories to erode public confidence in the 2020 elections. The right to vote is the very foundation of our democracy. When it comes to elections, the truth matters. All we can do as election officials is respond with facts and evidence. Post-election audits are one important way, one important tool that states can respond to for these unfounded allegations by openly, transparently, independently, and securely affirming the accuracy and integrity of our election results. So it's time to get started. Here. Did you wanna add a few things? I will, very briefly. As Secretary Tondes mentioned, my name is Keir Holman. I'm the Vice President of Technical Services with the Clear Ballot Group. First and foremost, I wanna thank Secretary Kondos and his staff for what we see as a real partnership. Our company got started by being able to audit other systems' election ballots, and it's really an important tradition that we carry on. We've gotten into a lot of other aspects of elections around the country, but we still consider audit where we started and an important part of what we do. So thank you, Secretary Kondos and your staff. You are great to work with, and we certainly see you as a partner. On a personal note, this, I believe, is our third audit here in the state of Vermont, and I have yet to witness one, so I was excited to get here and personally very grateful to be able to be here. From a technology standpoint, as Secretary Kondos mentioned, in the world of audits, it's important to be independent. We don't, election systems don't audit themselves, and that's really where we started our business. As Secretary Kondos mentioned, we don't typically find major counting issues, but what we do find gives our clients some insights into their own process, maybe helps them think of things they might wanna do in the future, and really gives the public a level of confidence in their election that they voted in and that they entrusted their public officials with. And again, we are grateful to be a part of that. From a technology standpoint today, we will be scanning all of the ballots from the municipalities that the Secretary mentioned. We'll do those one municipality at a time. Our scanners will scan several thousand ballots an hour between them, so with that kind of throughput, we should be able to finish today without an issue. We'll be displaying results up on the screen that I believe are gonna be live streamed as well, and we will be available for any questions that anybody might have about our system. We certainly look forward to answering those, and again, very grateful to be here, and I speak for the entire clear ballot team that is here. It was interesting to know Secretary Kondos has the smallest election staff in the country. That is great, because I don't care how big a state is, administering elections is a big job, an important job, and I know they do a great job here, and we're happy to be a part of it. So thank you again for allowing us to be here, and we'll get started. Good morning, everybody. Can folks hear me even if I leave my mask on for now? I think I'm gonna, and let me know. My name's Will Senning. I'm the Director of Elections for the State of Vermont. While I'm talking here, my team is gonna start moving forward with the audit. The first town that we are going to audit is the town of Worcester. That's Worcester, for those of you out of state, looking at the spelling on the screen. Actually, the folks from Mass should know that plenty well themselves. Let me see, there are 803 registered voters on the checklist for Worcester, and there were 632 ballots counted at the general election. What you're gonna see, for those of you watching on the live stream, the three elections division staff are gonna open the ballot bag for the town of Worcester and remove the voted ballots. There are some other materials that are required to be sealed in the bag, so you may see the team removing and setting aside those other materials. There should be a ballot of defective ballots, an envelope of defective ballots, and an envelope of replaced ballots, if there were any of those in the town of Worcester. Copies of the entrance checklist. By rule, under the audit rules for the state of Vermont, only staff from the elections division or their designees can handle the ballots, so primarily it will be my staff handling the ballots. If we do need to designate anyone, we may designate a clear ballot team member or two. You're gonna see the team put the ballots in manageable stacks for the scanners, and as soon as they're ready, the scanners will start scanning them. You'll see at a pretty high rate. And as Kier mentioned, we're gonna display the results on the screen above, and you'll be able to see those results being tallyed over time. All the ballots in Vermont are printed on the same tabulator readable card stock, regardless of whether those towns hand count their ballots or not. Worcester does use a tabulator. And a couple things now to note, the elections division team keeps the ballots in the same order that they're fed through the scanners as they're coming off the scanners, which would enable us, if we needed to, to go back and look at a certain ballot. We'll be able to see the images of the ballots when the process is complete. But that would also let us go back and isolate that actual individual paper ballot and compare it to the image we're seeing. They do do the ballots in batches so that if there were any jam or need to go back, we don't have to go back and do the entire town, but you can go back and just start at the most recent batch that you've done. Are you doing 50 or 100 in a batch? Just a good chunk. That was a process that we instituted after the first year, so that you didn't have to go back and do the entire town again. You could go back to one of the break points. I'll vote visualization real quick. Sure. Just to see what we have. While we wait. You want me to kind of explain what that is? So this is actually what we call our vote visualization. So some of the ballots that we scanned, this top portion up here is actually, we have the 100 ovals of least confidence, meaning they're not filled in as much as the other ovals. So starting at the very bottom right, that is the least confident vote, but it's still registered as a vote because it meets the threshold of the system. And if we scroll down a little bit more, Ira, and then we'll bring up any overvotes that we find that can be visually inspected, maybe the voter did make a mistake. So we could adjudicate that if need be. And then any ballots that were non-votes and then maybe any marginal or question mark. So that's a little bit of what the vote visualization is. So you kind of get an idea of what your voters do. Yeah, sure. So, can you back up real quick, Ira? Went a little fast for me. So if I hover over any one of these ovals, just any one, it actually gives you a clipped image of that contest. But if I were to go ahead and click on the oval, it's gonna bring up the entire ballot so it can be inspected. And this is front and back. And then on the left-hand side, we show how the ballot was actually counted or what we counted for the ballot. Yeah, that is a very good ballot for a voter. And we see all different types of things. Keir mentioned before about process for your voters. Sometimes what the elections administrators will do is use this as a tool to better educate the voters, you know, this is why it's important to fully fill in the oval. So, okay. Now, I'd say if our route was to refresh the screen, everything is being processed in real time. So as they're scanning ballots, we can actually go in and look at additional ovals and things like that if need be. So for this audit, the scanners that you see being used are actually off-the-shelf scanners. They're commercially available. It's just the software behind it that the, once it scans, the data is put into the system. So I just wanted to make sure everybody knew that as well. So we're gonna check out the results here that we just got for the town of Worcester. As an initial matter, we counted 632 ballots, which was the same number of ballots counted on the Worcester official return of votes. I have the official return of votes for the town of Worcester here. We have hard copies available for anybody who's here listening. And there are also public documents that are available online. And we'll make all these results available online. We'll make a nice spreadsheet that compares election night to the audit. For now, I'm resigned to reading through the totals from the official return of vote here that I have in front of me. And like I said, again, we had 632 ballots counted on election night and we had 632 ballots counted today, which is great. And as a testament to the election workers in Worcester who were nicely cleanly packing and organizing their ballot bag. In the race for president and vice president, can you go back to the PDF? These are the audit results you're seeing on the screen right now. And I'm gonna read the results from the official return of vote. And we'll compare the two. For the purpose of this presidential race, I am just gonna read the names of the people who got votes. Because there are so many there with zeros. Actually, I'm gonna stick with the top two. I'll go through all of them, that's all right. Joe Biden, I don't have the vice presidential candidates on the official return of vote. So I'm just gonna read the presidential candidates. For Joe Biden, we had 464. Howie Hawkins had five. Joe Jorgensen had five. Allison Kennedy had one. Christopher Lafontaine had three. Gloria Lariva one. Keith McCormick one. H. Brooke Page, six. Donald J. Trump 125. Kanye West three. Ten right in votes. No overvotes, eight blank votes for a total of 632. I believe that was a total match, wasn't it? I only have one set of eyes. In the rep to Congress race, Peter Becker had seven votes. Miriam Barry 117. Christopher Halele 11. Marcia Horn 10. Sean Orr two. Jerry Trudell six. Peter Welch 457. Total right in votes of three and 19 blanks. Is that a match also, I think? In governor's race, again, just the candidates with votes. Charlie Dickerson two. I'll read them all. Wayne Billidoo zero. Michael DeVos zero. Charlie Dickerson two. Kevin Hoyt six. Emily Payton two. Phil Scott 362. Aaron Haslett Whitney one. David Zuckerman 239. Nine right in, zero over and 11 blank. Excellent. You'd think these tabulators were made to count votes. Wayne Billidoo five. Ralph Corbott as Lieutenant Governor three. Chris Erickson 19. Molly Gray 385. Scott Millen 196. Nine right in votes. No overvotes 15 blanks. So we have 385 on the ORB. You guys had 386. Yep, then Scott Millen. We have 196 for Scott here and 195. Yep. I'll keep going for now. We'll come back and take a look at that. Was that Lieutenant Governor? Yep, State Treasurer. Carolyn Whitney Brannigan at 119. Chris Erickson had 30. Beth Pierce had 429. Alex Wright had 22. Two right in's, no overvotes, 30 blank. Extra right in on the, somebody note that one too. Again, I'll say at this point, having had two in a row here, it's not uncommon for us to see shifts of one or two votes between candidates or between the blank column and candidates. And we'll see, we usually can figure out what's going on when we go back and take a look. Secretary of State Jim Condos 429. Chris Erickson 24. H. Brooke Page 123. Pamela Smith 27. Zero right in, zero over 29 blank. For auditor, Chris Erickson at 85. Doug Hoffer had 468. There was one right in. And this is what I noticed before I made the announcement and was talking about over here before reading these votes. It appears that the clerk in Worcester mistakenly recorded her blank votes in the overvote column. She had 78 overvotes indicated and no blank votes for a total of 632. For Attorney General T.J. Donovan at 457. Chris Erickson 36. H. Brooke Page 99. No right in's. One overvote, 39 blank votes. Very common, thanks Lori. Where was I, State Senator? Ken Alger 140 and Cummings 397. Andrew Purchlick 358. Anthony Polina 396. Don Marie Tamasi 149. Dwayne Tucker 136. Paul Valorand 37. Three right in's, no overvotes, 280 blank votes. And for State Rep, Shanara Johnson 132. Tyler Machia 125. Avram Pat 437. David Yacovone 439. Total right in's, three, one overvote, 127 blank votes. And last but not least, Ty Bailiff, we have Mark Pullin with 190. Asa Skinder with 360. No right in's, no overvotes, 82 blank votes. We're not gonna do JPs today. We don't have the official returns and vote for the JPs and stuff in the Comparative. So the ones we were taking a look at, can somebody help remind me? It also had a shift for him, right? Right, it did. Open that ballot up too. Yeah, can you open that ballot? So you can see on this ballot, that's how the person voted was by X's, which is the opto scan that we use doesn't necessarily pick that up. And that would have had to have been looked at physically by a Board of Civil Authority member. Which is done. They review the ballots after they're run through the tabulator for markings like these that might show voter intent but might not necessarily have been picked up by the tabulator. It's hard to tell what they decided on that night. They may have decided that those votes were being read. When they weren't. Oh, not as well. This was the other way. We had 196. Well, we're there and it's still, it was one, it was more and one was less. Yeah. Thank you guys. I'm wondering if Molly's, the vote we looked at on Molly's, on the Molly Gray vote, actually got picked up. And what we might be seeing here is a transposition on that ORV. It could be. Yep. Giving one to the other and one to the other. A Molly Gray vote just mistakenly pushed in the Scott known column. Yeah. Who that matched. Yeah. We're pretty happy with one vote. Descrepancies around here. Quick, so we can move on to self-prompt. As these guys said again, from a voter education perspective, it's the same ballot in both races. That was that least confident mark. And you can see it's kind of an outlier among the Worcester ballots. And it's why it's so important to fill in the ovals completely. I say we go. Yep. Again, I'll reiterate that we'll be posting the full results with any deltas between election night and the audit on our website as soon as possible. James, do people use this? And then actually do a special education. Yeah. So you can free these. We'll get the same thing here. Sure. Yeah. We can save all those. We can put a lot of them. Yeah. We can transfer them to the day. The first bag that the team opened from South Burlington turned out to contain the defective ballots from South Burlington. So they're not included in the count on election night. And so they're not scanned as part of the audit, of course. And so they had to replace the seal on that defective ballot bag and move into the voted ballots. So in South Burlington, they have a significant number of overseas and military voters. Those voters return their ballots typically on non-card stock paper. They're ballots that they've printed out in the location where they are. And then handmarked them and mailed them back. Those ballots are transferred. The votes on those ballots are transferred onto a tabulator-readable ballot. No, you can commence on election day by two election officials in South Burlington so that the ballots, instead of hand counting the flimsy regular paper ballots that come back, that allows the clerk in South Burlington to run those ballots through the tabulator. She just explained to me she does that last, which makes sense. So they clear out the ballot bin from underneath the tabulator and run through just the ballots that have been transferred on the tabulator-readable ballots. That allows her to then take those out of the box underneath the tabulator and attach them back to the ballot that was sent back from the voter to show that they were accurately transferred by the election officials. And so she stores them separately in the replaced ballot envelope with the original ballot attached to the tabulator-readable ballot that the election officials filled out. And so in order to audit those same ballots that were read by the tabulator, we are detaching the tabulator-readable ballot from the original that was returned from the voter so that we can send them through this great scanner. We had to redo the first batch of ballots that we did for South Burlington that were scanned before the tolerance on the scanner had been changed. And so it allowed for a few to be double-fed to go through without being read. So we picked up some more there that have gotten us closer to the number we were looking for. And then we are going to redo the last batch that we did because it looked like they had picked up an additional count. It was 53. So after we scanned this small batch of 52, we should be ready to go. So Jim, you can help us here. There were four ballots in this batch of South Burlington ballots that were unreadable by the clear ballot system. And I'm now remembering we have done this a few times before with the system. I couldn't remember. But so we're going to go through now collectively as a group and adjudicate these ballot status to the totals. No, no, the count is OK. These weren't readable, so they weren't tabulated by the clear ballot system. For some reason, and James was giving me a few examples of why that happens sometimes, ballot status. Yeah. Joe Biden, Peter Welch, Phil Scott, Molly Gray. Anybody stop us if they disagree? Blank, blank, blank. Keisha Rom. Nope, Keisha. And don't worry about the JPs. Space between the timing marks and the edge of the paper. Mata couldn't read the timing marks. Again, space between the timing marks and the edge of the paper. So we've got Joe Biden, Peter Welch, Phil Scott, Molly Gray, Beth Pierce, Jim Condos, who's that guy? Doug Hoffer, TJ Donovan. Now Baruth, Chittenden, Ellers, Long. Yeah. That's probably why you didn't read it. So this is the wrong ballot. That's the wrong ballot. Which also explains why we have one more ballot, right? Yes. So however, you can read that to the wrong ballot. No, because the tabulator read that ballot for all the other races. But her count was the same on the tape. Doing running these through the scan. So we probably have an extra ballot. So that's a little search for that. Yeah, that's why we have one more. So what? No, I know. Yeah. So we can tell this to the left. Right. And we'll be back to hopefully more. We're waiting in those. Oh, right. No, she transferred it. You can see what happened with this one. The corner was folded over, and it was better on it. Folded corner meant that couldn't read the tab. Should we? Kai, I could start going through these. Should I start going through? Yeah, I could scroll through. And we'll probably need to check these stuff out, because there's some variations here. Anything you want to look at? Jim, I'm going to go through these. And South Burlington, there's some stuff to look at. So we're going to take a look at the results from South Burlington while the election team is packing up those bags. Now I'm going to start with the race for president. You can see the results from the audit up on the screen. And I'll read the results from the official return of vote on election night. Biden had 2,093. Carroll had three. Brian Carroll. Richard Duncan had two. Hallie Hawkins nine. Joe Jorgensen 23. Allison Kennedy one. Kyle Kapipke one. Christopher Lafontaine seven. H. Brick page two. Brock Pierce two. Jerome Siegel one. Gary Swing two. Donald J. Trump six, 17. Kanye West 14. And total right ends of 11. One over vote and 33 blank. Trump the right end and the blank, which I think should begin to make sense if we start looking at them. You had four more for Trump. Likely those bottom four were not read by the data leader. The interesting thing about our system is the way our system works. It takes into account the way the whole ballot is marked. So that's why we can end up picking up some ballots that may be more picked up by another system. Because our system is smart enough to say, OK, they seem to have marked the whole ballot the same way. This is how they mark it. So take a quick look for me, Kai, at the... What was the blank number? Your under vote. And we have 33. So there's four of those, four of those right there. Can you take a quick look at the right ends? South Brownington only had 11, which is likely because of some that are written in that weren't picked up. Their total right-incant was 11. And moved to blank. Yep. Can you look at all the right ends? Is that all of them? No, it shouldn't. Fictitious. Let's keep moving. No, let's see if we can get a pattern. Rep to Congress. Peter Becker, 38. Miriam Berry, 554. Christopher Halali, 27. Marsha Horne, 23. Sean Orr, 7. Jerry Tradell, 32. Peter Welch, 2018. Total right ends of three. One over vote, 119 blank. We had 2018, you had 2019. Right, so that's all right. The check mark ballot. Yeah. But the votes, I rest, we're at the secretary's point. No, but Berry had one additional. In Berry, though. Not Miriam Berry, not Halali. Oh, okay, I was looking at the whole list. Yep, 54. Check the right ends. So you're going to tell me that check. Yes, right. Just take a peek at the right ends in that one for me. That's why these guys had two more right ends. Yep, and both of those were moved into blank for our ORB. So we can keep going. Governor, Governor. Dilladoo, 12. DeVost, 8. Dickerson, 3. Hoyt, 14. Payton, 17. Phil Scott, 18.03. Whitney, 9. Suckerman, 8.71. 7 right ends, 0 over 78 blank. No, that's a human. That's at least two of them there. Lieutenant Governor, Dilladoo, 30. Corbo, 34. Erickson, 75. Gray, 15, 61. Milne, 991. 6 right ends, 0 over 125 blank. Should go to Molly. That might not be why, though, too. Yeah, I don't see Molly. You look at her race. It's the same two ballots again. Probably went to blank. Yep. Oh, hers was higher. Yep. You want to look at that whole ballot? Marking like the whole way. And it looks like your counters actually got it for Molly. I was talking to Donna, her counters. Right. Treasurer, Brannigan, 661. Erickson, 97. Pierce, 16, 46. Right, 180. Total right ends of 1. No overvotes, 237 blank. Secretary of State, Condos, 1873. Erickson, 77. Page, 529. Smith, 143. No right ends, no overvotes, 200 blank. You had two more each, Brooks than us. Down to 1 again. Auditor of accounts, Chris Erickson, 329. Doug Hoffer, 2033. 7 right in, 0 overvote, 453 blanks. Try the right ends, just curious. Blank, no vote. That's 3. Get this down to 3. Attorney General, ORV DJ Donovan, 2069. Erickson, 91. Page, 481. 11 right ends, 0 over 170 blanks. No vote. Yep. And last, no we'll be up to, so State Senate. Baruth, 1276. Bowen, 705. Chaston, 670. Chittenden, 1731. Ellers, 418. Hollingsworth, 501. Long, 559. Lyons, 1453. Pearson, 901. Rom, 1338. Redick, 598. Rowland, 538. Sorotkin, 1482. 7 right in, 4 overvote, 4,751 blank. You're generally too fewer. So it's those two ballots again. They're all within one or two. Can you look at the blanks? And those counts are really close. State Rep, towns in 2292, 27 right ends, 503 blanks. And she's got five more blanks, exactly. It's, again, difficult with the six. Oh, that's not the six. Hi, Bayloth. Gamlin, 2115, 12 right in. No overvote, 695 blank. Probably. So it would look like a couple lightly marked or uniquely marked ballots, throwing those off by a little bit. And then instances where there was either no name or a fictitious name put in the right in spaces are counting for most of those differences. Overall, good job, South Burlington. And you guys already packaged that up, right? So other than lunch, we can move on to the next town. I'd like to keep going. Yes, that's a blog in. Number of balance matches, at least. 656. Way to go, tops them. I'm going to go through tops them. Right. OK, well, you're completed scanning the ballots from tops them. And ballot count matched. 656 ballots counted on election night. And 656 audited today. And so I'll start with the race for president. Biden had 273. I'm reading from the official return of vote, filed by the clerks. Biden had 273. Carol, two. Hawkins, two. Jorgensen, four. Lafontaine, two. Lariva, one. McCormick, one. Page two. Trump, 356. West, one. Two right ends. No over. Ten blank. Pretty close on all of that, huh? You counted one less, Biden. We have 273. Most likely a light mark. So if there's not any of the kind of typically obvious reasons, transfers, I want to note and remind everybody that tops them is a hand count count. So we're not dealing with tabulators here. And one or two vote differences could be the result of human error in adding up the totals from the summary sheets, tally sheets to the summary sheets. May not have been counted. It missed the oval a little bit there. Yep. But again, it's not a machine. So you're talking about human analysis. And those might not have been counted. Or actually, so we were three above on Trump. Yours wouldn't have counted those. You're right. And those hand counters probably would have. Yep. Let's go wrap the Congress. Becker 10, Berry 280, Halali 8, Horn 14, Or 1, Tradel 3, Welch 317. No write-ins, 23 blank. So Governor, we've got Biladu 2, DeVost 4, Dickerson 7, Hoyt 17, Payton 3, Scott 494, Whitney 3, Zuckerman 105, three write-ins, 18 blanks. Spot on for the counters at the top. Lieutenant Governor, Biladu 7, Corba 1, Ericsson 7, Gray 238, Millen 382, three write-in, 18 blank. Same one. Again, I'm not going to over-analyze these with the hand count, but where was I? Secretary of State. Treasurer, Brannigan 306, Ericsson 20, Pierce 268, Wright 15, no write-ins, 47 blank. Yeah, because you had, what, 18? Look at the blanks, 18, 18 to 15. Yep. Secretary of State. Condos 271, Ericsson 13, Page 300, Smith 32, no write-in, 40 blank. They really missed the old one. Should we look at auditor? Ericsson 86, Hoffer 467, four write-ins, no overvote, 99 blanks. One more for Hoffer. Attorney General, Donovan 320, Ericsson 27, Page 272, no write-ins, no overvotes, 37 blank. State Senator, Benning 297, Cho 178, JT Dodge 88, Kitchell 242, Wilson 216, one write-in, no overvotes, 290 blanks. Kind of two more. Look at Benning, you counted one less for Benning. We have 297, one of those. There is. Yep. They may have counted that. Can you look at that ballot? They've made it. From Charles Wilson, but that's a two. That's a two. Oh, I see it. They gave that to him. State rep, Parsons 393, Root Winchester 231, 32 blanks. Two overvotes. No, but that was that big. That's that ballot where they were crossing out whole boxes. Oh, in case all of them are correct. That's a two free, two different on each candidate that different directions could be reporting. And finally, High Bale of 544 for Con Toys, 8 write-in, 104 blank. They call that one. That's where you get that one overvote. For the record, good job. Topsham and counters in general. Pretty right on. Topsham. Each of the ender cards for each town. The ender card is what tells the machine that you're done running the ballots through, and they can tabulate the totals. It can only be used once. And so we destroy those as we go along. That's what you saw, one of the election staff crumbling up or ripping it so that we don't mistakenly use that same ender card twice. Just like we found in South Burlington, there's a number of ballots in the bag for Brandon that were printed and sent back probably from voters overseas and or voters with disabilities voting from home using the ballot marking system. And so they are each clearly marked by the clerk and another election official as having been transferred to a tabulated readable ballot. So we'll pull these out any with a note on them that say that they've been transferred because we wouldn't want to count those votes twice. They have not, but they are included in that 2023. So we want to reduce that number by one because this has been transferred to another one. Oh, yeah, we could make this a non-ballot. Make it a non-ballot. Okay, so, Dylan, you can make this a non-ballot. Non-ballot. Yeah. Oh, yeah, don't even do that. Just go to non-ballot on your radio button. There you go. There's a clear note on this ballot that the votes have been transferred to a separate ballot that was also counted. So that's accounting for one of the additional ballots we counted today. And so we're not going to include the votes on this ballot in the count. Jim, are you okay with me going through them? Yes. Before they find it, yeah. So I'm going to go through these already. The audit team, we ended up counting two additional ballots over the number that was reported on the official return of vote. We are pretty confident in assuming that those are ballots that were, the votes were transferred onto a tabulated readable ballot, but were still included in this count because this bag had five or six. Or how many did we pull out? I think eight. Eight, nine on our own that we found. Five. I think eight. It was five plus the three that JP found. And so it's likely that there were additional ones that we might not have caught that got counted during the audit. These guys are looking through the images to see if we can find any of the images with that similar note on it that the ballot had been transferred. Also the clerk noted to Lori when she was dropping the ballots off that she would be quote, off by one. We're not sure what that referred to exactly, but that could explain that she may have found an additional ballot after the count that was in the bag. She said she was off by one. That's all she said to us. So we think that might be an additional ballot that was found later too and included in the bag. So with that said, expecting there to be two additional votes on the audit side. I'll go through the totals. Starting with president, Biden had 1213. Blankenship had three. Carroll had two. Collins had one. Duncan had two. Hawkins had three. Jorgensen had 19. Kennedy four. Lafontaine nine. McCormick three. Page nine. Siegel one. Gary Swing two. Trump eight, 96. And West 11. Six write-ins. One over vote, 24 blank. I know that's the thing. It's hard to dig in because we know we're off by two ballots anyway. And those are both within that two ballot margin, the change that I can see there. So I think I'll just read through these while you guys are looking. And as long as we don't see any that are wider than two, we will assume that that's the issue. For Rep to Congress, Becker, 139. Barry, 688. Halale, nine. Horn, 15. Or eight. Tradell, 14. Welch, 1251. Write-ins of two. Six over votes, 77 blank. Those are all right, but in that one or two ballot margin. Governor, we had ability with five. DeVos with four. Dickerson, seven. Hoyt, 46. Payton, 22. Scott, 15, 44. Whitney, 12. Zuckerman, 507. 25 write-ins, two over votes, 35 blanks. Lieutenant Governor, ability at 27. Corbo, seven. Erickson, 32. Gray, 921. Milne, 1144. Writing, seven. Over votes, nine. Byg votes, 62. 921. 921. 1144, sure. With that marking. So can you un, can you roll that back? Okay. They did find another ballot with the marking that it had been transferred. That was one of the ones she penned in so it didn't even have the little sticker. Those are even harder for us to catch because they're just penned on the back. Worse than it may be the one that she was talking about that she had an additional, but if you don't mind. Yeah, I mean, I'll take that. Nah, nah. Let's do that. For State Treasurer, Branigan, 847. Erickson, 87. Pierce, 1026. Wright, 107. Two write-ins, 140 bank. Secretary of State, Condos, 1095. Erickson, 58. Page, 784. Smith, 127. One write-in, two over votes, 142 bank. For Auditor, Erickson, 305. Offer, 1573. 13 write-ins, one over vote, 317 bank. For Attorney General, Donovan at 1245. Erickson, 84. Page, 745. Write-ins of three, one over vote, 131 bank votes. For State Senator, Cavacas, 223. Collamore, 883. Corsale, 451. Cox, 611. Hooker, 947. Jennings, 82. Lynchus, 34. Schenck, 632. Taranzini, 788. Williams, 664. Eight write-in, nine over vote, 1295 bank. And State Rep, Jerome, 1228. Shaw, 1386. Salia, 843. 12 write-ins, zero over vote, 949 bank. And last but not least, Hyde-Bale, if Bixby, 1377. Humphreys, 385. 28 write-ins, zero over vote, 419 bank. So the results that you just saw on the screen from the audit are all going to change by at least one vote in each race because one ballot will be backed out that we found was marked, haven't been transferred. And they're looking for a second as we speak. If they don't find another. Right now, yeah. It'd be 1210 versus her 1209. One off, which may be the one that Sue was telling us about. You guys let it run, but I think we can pack these up. Yeah. This is $2,000 of ballots, right? So you can count for that one too. They just said that reviewing the images, they did find another of the ballots with a notation by the clerk and another election official that it had been transferred to a tabulator readable ballot. That means it should not have been included in the audit scanning and brings the numbers in line. And so when you see the official audit results posted on the website, the ballot counts will match and the numbers that I read or that you saw on the screen as a result of the audit will both be slightly different by two ballots. So I'll say again. They couldn't back it out. But I had a printed version. And I don't think it was reflected up there. Right away. So we're looking at the town of Randolph. And as a number of ballots counted, the audit today counted 2,637. Whereas on the ORV, the total ballots counted was 26,28. So that's nine less. However, the candidate vote counts are all within the same kind of one or two vote margins that we've seen all day, if not exact. And so we'll see where the discrepancies are as we go through, I would say. And that is gonna require some followup with the clerk. It appears that there were a, how many, a number of ballots hand counted and added to the totals on the tabulator tape, which might account for the difference in ballot count that we're seeing. But for now, I'm just gonna go through the candidate vote totals from the ORV. And we can compare them to the vote totals in the audit. Biden had 1685, Blankenship 2, Carol 1, Collins 5, Duncan 2, Hockens 11, Jorgensen 23, Kennedy 4, LaFontaine 8, McCormick 2, Brooke Page 10, Brock Pierce 1, Gary Swing 1, Donald Trump 801, West 17, 13 right ends, three overvotes and 39 blank votes, 36. So the right ends, they had 26, 13, 13. We typically see that those right ends move up in the candidate totals if they write in a candidate. Stella, that's my daughter's name. I'm gonna keep going. We'll go to Rep to Congress. Becker 58, Barry 694, Halale 32, Horne 58, Orr 9, Tradell 13, Welch 1687, right ends of five, three overvotes, 69 blank. For governor, we have Billidoo with eight, DeVos with six, Dickerson 13, Hoyt 19, Payton 17, Scott 1866, Whitney 11, Zuckerman 628, right ends of 15, no overvotes, 45 blank. Let me know if anybody wants to stop and look at any. That does seem to be the blanks to me. Also, which are consistently running higher on your side. Lieutenant governor, Billidoo 31, Corbo 9, Erickson 53, Gray 1237, Milne 1227, six right ends, zero overvotes, 65 blanks. Lieutenant governor, Billidoo 31, Corbo 9, Erickson 53, did I just do that? 1237, I did, 1227, 6, 065, I apologize. State treasurer, Branigan 789, Erickson 87, Pierce 1443, right 147, right ends of two, one overvote, 159 blank. Secretary of State, Condos 1514, Erickson 65, Page 706, Smith 197, zero right ends, zero overvote, 146 blanks. 11 additional blanks, right? That's what I'm saying too. Auditor, Chris Erickson 364, Hofford 1918, right ends of 10, no overvotes, 336 blanks. Yep, those are what I'm curious about. So we may have had some just blank unvoted ballots mixed in with the voted ballots in her bag. And that's the circling. Okay, I'm gonna keep moving through. Almost done, Attorney General, Donovan 1640, Erickson 105, Page 706, six right ends, zero overvotes, 171 blanks. State Senator Huff, 1109, McDonald 1395, right end, one overvote, 123 blank. State Rep, Deering 223, Hooper 1594, Reed 550, Roach 459, Russell 708, Sackowitz 1002, six right ends, two overvotes, 712 blanks. And High Bail, if you have con toys with 2044, 30 right ends, three overvotes, 551 blank. Even more. Yep, and that's, to me, that is most likely that we may have just had some blank ballots mixed in the bag along with the voted ballots. Okay, so we're gonna take a look at the results from the town of, town of, I thought we were still in Randolph. On election night, on the official return of vote, the clerk reported 1792 ballots counted. Today we counted 1793, so that's close. There's a possibility that a ballot from the test deck used to test the tabulator ended up with the voted ballots. But we're gonna go ahead and compare the results. So in the president's race, Biden has 892 blankenship to Carroll 2, Collins 1, Duncan 2, Hawkins 5, Jorgensen 21, Kennedy 2, Copic K1, Lafontaine 7, McCormick 2, Page 2, Scalf 1, Siegel 1, Trump 831, West 5, one right ends, six over votes, eight blank, very close across the board. You wanna take a look at Trump's, just for fun, the least confident Trump, because you had one additional and we did have two, you counted, we counted more blank, three right in. You wanna look at the right ends too, I'm just curious. They do and she had Leonard, so they missed the two right ends somehow. Okay, let's keep going. Rep to Congress, Becker had 89, Barry 658, Halali 4, Horn 32, Or 16, Trudell 4, Welch 902, one right in, five over votes, 81 blank. I'd say that was like Mark's win. Yep, Governor Billidude 7, DeVost 7, Dickerson 7, Hoyt 208, Payton 22, Scott 999, Whitney 32, Zuckerman 457, three right ends, two over votes, 48 blank, then five. Yeah, and that's again where you guys had two more than us, Lieutenant Governor, Billidude 55, Torbo 9, Erickson 42, Gray 766, Scott Millen 828, four right ends, two over votes, 86 blank. Let's go to Treasurer, Branigan 733, Erickson 60, Pierce 762, Wright 111, two right ends, one over vote, 123 blank. It's those two again, I'm Branigan I'm sure. Secretary of State, Condos 790, Erickson 52, Page 707, Smith 133, zero right ends, three over votes, 107 blank. So Auditor, Erickson 324, Hoffer 10129, five right ends, two over votes, 332 blank. And Attorney General, Donovan 837, Erickson 93, Page 744, zero right end, one over vote, 117 blank. State Senator, we had Campion 704, Hall 422, Hanson 570, Hoyt 264, Sears 838, three right ends, one over vote, 782 blank. State Rep, are you looking at him? What are you looking at? It's the light ones again. It's a good consistent pattern there. State Rep Brownell had 1190, 246 right ends, sheesh, zero over votes and 356 blank votes. Hi, Bailiff, Frederick Gilbarre, 1412, 16 right end votes, zero over votes and 364 blank votes. And that's a very good job to the town of Townell. And that gives me a chance while we wait for the Warren ballots, I just wanted to make the comment that I, for those watching in those here, as we've gone through these, as the Director of Elections, I am very satisfied and comfortable with the deviation that we've seen between the ORBs and the audit. For the vast majority of these races, we're confirming the vote counts on election night. And I think it's indicative of the accuracy of the tabulators and the election officials who are reporting the results. So for President, I have Biden with 1039, Collins with one, Duncan with one, Hawkins with three, Jorgensen with 17, Lafontaine with one, Page with two, Swing with two, Trump with 179, and West with four, 15 right ends, and six blanks between what two, 1039 and 179 versus 176. It's three short, too. Which would be six? For Rep to Congress, Becker at 14, Barry 180, Halale 14, Horn 19, Orr 4, Trudell 4, Welch 981, right ends of two, three over votes, 49 blank, 12-7. It's gonna be variable, though. Governor, we have Billidoo with one, DeVos with three, Dickerson with five, Hoyt with 16, excuse me, Hoyt with one, Payton with 16, Scott with 761, Whitney with four, Zuckerman with 458, one right in, 20 over votes, zero blank. Ten in Governor, Billidoo at 12, Corbo 8, Erickson 21, Gray 812, Milne 371, no right ends, no over vote, 46 blanks, State Treasurer, Branigan 227, Erickson 50, Pierce 833, right 54, no right ends, no over votes, 106 blank, Secretary of State, Condos 866, Erickson 38, Page 206, Smith 80, two right ends, zero over votes, 78 blanks, Auditor, Erickson at 168, Hofford 902, six right ends, no over votes, 194 blanks, Attorney General Donovan at 929, Erickson 54, Page 189, one right in, 97 blanks, no over votes. State Senate, we had Alger with 213, Cummings with 857, Perchlick with 593, Polina with 718, Tamasi with 213, Tucker with 189, Valorand with 103, six right ends, no over votes, 918 blanks, State Rep, Dolan 964, Grad 892, 48 right ends, eight over votes and 628 blanks, and for High Bailiff, Poolin 313, Skinder 760, nine total right ends, zero over votes, 188 blanks, five is the biggest delta on any, and if you had 1263, we were looking for 1269, that's six, it's only six, but six ballot difference that we were looking for, so I would expect them to be around within five. I will follow up with the Warren Clerk about any idea about under counting, the low number of ballots that we found today from the ballot bag, God, sorry, I'm looking at the 48 right ends in the rep race. Secretary Contas is a good example while we're trying to get them to not have to report all those names. That concludes the audit for the 2020 general election. If anybody out there on the live stream has any questions, please feel free to follow up with me, my office. Otherwise, thanks for coming, thanks for being here, thanks for watching, and I don't know if Jim wants to say anything, but otherwise, thanks again. So I think the important takeaway from this is that we have a simple, safe, and secure elections process. We follow the rules, our clerks follow the rules, and we are fortunate to have hardworking town clerks, hardworking election staff, and we're thankful for our voters for turning out this past year and setting the new record for voter turnout. We are now in the top 10 for voter turnout in the country, and we're very excited about that, thanks.