Georgia officials kicked off an audit of this month’s election. What does that actually entail?

They may be rolling dice, but when it comes to election integrity, Georgia’s top officials say they are taking no chances.

The secretary of state’s office opened its doors to the public Thursday to kick off a statewide risk-limiting audit, a process that has been used in Georgia since 2020 to help verify election results across the state. 

Twenty participants each got a chance to roll a 10-sided die to generate a 20-digit number. That number was used to select a random batch of ballots, which election workers in each of Georgia’s 159 counties will use to double-check their results ahead of next week’s election certification deadline.