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morning folks we are still assembling people who are logging into the risk limiting audit for 2021 for the Secretary of State's office will give folks a minute or so to join and then we'll get started with our with our proceedings.
Morning folks, my name is Christopher Beal, I'm the Deputy Secretary of State for the state of Colorado and welcome to the risk limiting audit of 2021 to four are coordinated election.
Before we get started I wanted to hand it off for welcome and remarks from our Secretary of State Jennifer as well.
Thank you Chris welcome everybody, nice and early.
We really appreciate you being here today for our bipartisan risk limiting audit on I'm so proud that Colorado is and save the state in which to cast a ballot, a ballot voter verified paper ballots combined with bipartisan post election risk limiting
audit verify election outcomes and help instill voters with confidence that our elections are secure and accurate.
Colorado was the first state in the country to require style statewide bipartisan or las Jarvis limiting audits, which provide a high statistical level of confidence that the outcome of an election is correct and reflects the will of the voters.
Today we are here to initiate the risk limiting audit of the 2021 coordinated election.
At today's meeting a 10 sided dice will be rolled establishing each digit of a 20 digit random seed, the divisions voting system team, then we'll enter the 20 digit random seeds into a pseudo random number generator incorporated in the Secretary of State's
office, open source are alike software.
This 20 digit number will serve as a guide post two counties that will randomly select which ballots to audit.
After all the ballots have been tabulated bipartisan election judges made up of everyday Coloradans are tasked with pulling the random sample of ballots and reporting the markings on the ballot.
If what the bipartisan election judges report matches how the voting system tabulated the ballots, the audit concludes this process is both truly random and replicable, and it ensures that integrity and statistical validity validity of the audit.
With that, I know you guys are all waiting for the dice roll. So let's get started.
Thank you, Secretary.
And for those of you watching in the screen that looks like some sort of weird COP is a camera pointed at our dice roll castle, that our board game aficionados have brought into the office are our voting systems team will be sending 20 dice dice through
that capsule, I will call out the number that is generated from that dice roll that will be one digit in our 20 digit number we will do this 20 times to acquire a 20 digit number.
So, Eddie, why don't you start.
I see that Eddie as a zero.
The next one I see as an eight.
I feel like I'm doing that, that looks like a seven Eddie, it's a little fuzzy.
Let's make sure to zoom into the number before we go to the next one. There we go. We got a seven.
And there's another seven.
I feel like I'm doing a lottery calling.
And that would be a two.
And that is a four.
Yes, thank you.
And that is another seven.
If we are in Las Vegas.
That's a three
to.
Let's hold for a minute.
So there's a couple of comments that we need to pin Eddie screen is that from not being in gallery view, and he can you say you folks just need to go into gallery view.
The gallery view. Okay, if you go to him the screen you'll be able to see it. Okay, perfect. So that's the gallery view and then I've pinned the Eddie's camera.
Thank you.
That would be a number nine.
And just for the benefit of everyone we're actually rolling 20 different dyes dice.
That would be a number six.
That would be a number nine.
And another nine.
I believe that is one. Yes, one.
And that would be a number eight.
And that would be a number nine again.
And a number seven.
And a number five,
and a four
zero.
And I have written down 0877247 329-699-1897 540.
That is our random seed, which will be input into our risk limiting audit software, which will then generate the ballot selection for our risk limiting on a ballot counting, that will be done by our counties, based on the races that the Secretary published
last week.
For our risk limiting audit.
And I think that concludes our festivities for today. I know there are some news media on the webinar, we do not have a function that allows news media or folks to ask questions, and you'd be perfectly appropriate for you to email or text your questions
to our communications director, any Orloff, who will be able to follow up with you if you have any questions.
So thank you, everyone. Thank you, Secretary. Good job, Eddie with those die roll dice roll. We need to consult a dictionary to make sure we have the plural of that word.
Both of us dice.
Chris, great job calling it out in the chat I said you're the Vanna White of the Secretary of State's office, she give her a run for her money.