Georgia
Georgia launches election audit with roll of dice for secretary of state race
ATLANTA — Georgia election officers hosted a cube roll on the state Capitol on Wednesday to launch an audit of votes within the latest election for secretary of state.
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One after the other, individuals chosen randomly from a basket of names got here as much as a desk and rolled a 10-sided die. In all, 20 cube have been rolled, producing a quantity that was fed into a pc to find out the batches of votes counties should depend as a part of the audit.
The audit stems from a regulation handed in 2019, not from any considerations about issues or the integrity of the state’s election outcomes. An audit is required for normal elections in even-numbered years on a race chosen by the secretary of state. It should be accomplished earlier than the election outcomes are licensed.
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Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger introduced final week that he was selecting his race for the audit. Raffensperger, a Republican, beat Democratic state Home Rep. Bee Nguyen.
Officers say the aim of the audit is to confirm that the result of the secretary of state’s race was appropriate and extra broadly, to spice up confidence in elections.
Former President Donald Trump focused Raffensperger after the 2020 normal election for failing to overturn his slim loss in Georgia. In a now-notorious January 2021 telephone name, Trump prompt Raffensperger may “discover” sufficient votes to reverse Democrat Joe Biden’s presidential victory. Trump falsely blamed voter fraud for his loss in different states as nicely. State officers and federal investigators, together with Trump’s personal legal professional normal, have stated there was no proof of widespread fraud within the 2020 contest.
Raffensperger defeated a Trump-endorsed main challenger on this yr’s election contest.
As a part of the audit, each county within the state should test the outcomes recorded by vote-tallying scanners in opposition to a hand-count of ballots on the batches of votes chosen.
Gabe Sterling, a high official within the secretary of state’s workplace, stated the cube roll was a part of an effort to make the method of selecting vote batches as random as potential.
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“We cannot know upfront, so the counties cannot go, ‘I will be sure this batch is ideal and all the opposite ones are crap,’” he stated.
The counties should start the audit on Thursday. The secretary of state’s workplace is asking them to finish it by the subsequent day.
The audit ends both when election officers attain a sure degree of confidence that the result is appropriate or a full depend has been carried out.
State regulation requires 90% certainty that the result is appropriate, however Raffensperger stated final week he’s growing that to 95%, that’s to say a “danger restrict” of 5%.
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The SEC has announced the future Georgia football conference opponents for the 2026 through 2029 seasons.
Georgia will face Florida, South Carolina and Auburn every season. The SEC announced on Friday that the annual opponents will be revisited every four seasons.
Georgia football future SEC opponents, schedule
- 2026: Florida (Atlanta), at South Carolina, Auburn, at Alabama, at Ole Miss, at Arkansas, Oklahoma, Missouri, Vanderbilt
- 2027: Florida (Tampa), South Carolina, at Auburn, at Kentucky, at Texas, at Texas A&M, LSU, Mississippi State, Tennessee
- 2028: Florida (Jacksonville), at South Carolina, Auburn, Alabama, Ole Miss, Arkansas, at Oklahoma, at Missouri, at Vanderbilt
- 2029: Florida (Jacksonville), South Carolina, at Auburn, Kentucky, Texas, Texas A&M, at LSU, at Mississippi State, at Tennessee
“it’s hard. I mean, it’s brutal. And everybody’s the same,” Georgia coach Kirby Smart said on Tuesday night. “I mean, we all gotta play each other. It’s really tough, highly ranked teams, physical teams. It’s just going to continue to be a grind. I mean, looking forward with the nines coming, it’s going to be scary because you just don’t have enough. Nobody has enough depth.”
Dates for the 2026 schedule will be announced in December, according to the conference. The schedules will be flipped in 2028 and 2029 from the home-road splits in 2026 and 2027.
In its scheduling outline, the SEC made it clear it wants competitively balanced schedules, which will be determined using the entire schedule and not just the annual opponents. Tennessee reportedly will face Alabama, Vanderbilt and Kentucky in each of the next four years. The latter two are not exactly football powerhouses.
According to the SEC, the highest opponent average winning percentage for any school in the 2026-29 schedules is 55.67% while the lowest is 46.65%, a difference of only 9.02%. From 2020 through 2023 — when the league still used the divisional format — the highest winning percentage was 61.32% and the lowest was 39.76%.
In addition to nine conference games, the SEC stipulates that schools face one Power Four in its nonconference scheduling.
Georgia’s game against Georgia Tech satisfies that requirement. Georgia has future nonconference games against Louisville, Florida State, Clemson and Ohio State on its schedule for the time being.
As it stands, Georgia has 13 games scheduled for the 2025 season. The Bulldogs have nonconfernce games against Tennessee State, Western Kentucky, Louisville and Georgia Tech.
“We’re working through that right now, and a lot of that’s going to be determined as we learn when and where our schedule is going to be in the next few weeks,” Georgia athletic director Josh Brooks said. “But that’s something we’re attacking right now to see what our options are going to be in 2026. So we’re going to take it one year at a time right now. The first focus is going to be on 2026 and then 2027 and moving on. So still a lot of work to be done, and I work closely with Coach Smart and Mark Robinson and the league to kind of figure out what is that going to mean for our schedule moving forward.”
Georgia takes on Alabama this week, with the game scheduled for 7:30 p.m. ET on ABC.
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We’re back for another week of college football action and the slate is loaded, including three games between ranked opponents.
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Clemson at Georgia Tech (+3), Noon ET, ESPN: The Tigers are just 3-point favorites ahead of their first road game. It’s a sign that expectations for Clemson have been way off. With Haynes King back, the Yellow Jackets will want to keep it on the ground.
Georgia at Tennessee (+4), 3:30 p.m., ABC: Has Georgia’s offense been good enough ahead of this pivotal SEC game? Saturday is the day to air it out as Tennessee will be without its top two corners again.
South Florida at Miami (-17.5), 4:30 p.m., The CW: The Bulls are the surprise team so far this season. Can they pull off a third straight upset, or will the ‘Canes handle business?
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Texas A&M at Notre Dame (-6.5), 7:30 p.m., NBC: Aggies QB Marcel Reed has thrown for seven TDs so far and A&M’s offense has racked up 953 total yards. The Irish will surely try to get the ball to their star running backs after a subpar opener.
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