Bartow County Election Workers Complete Audit Of Jan. 5 Runoff

Election supervisor Joseph Kirk said the county decided to perform the voluntary audit to discredit the “mountain of misinformation” that was spread leading up to the election.

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Bartow County election officials released a report Thursday from a voluntary audit confirming the results of Georgia’s Jan. 5 Senate runoffs.

The audit found an 89-vote discrepancy from the original tally, a 0.2% difference, which Bartow election supervisor Joseph Kirk attributed to human error in the counting process.