The full audit, which is undertaken to check the accuracy of the machine count, found Biden ahead by just under 12,300 votes in the state. During the audit process, four counties — Floyd, Fayette, Douglas and Walton — found ballots that were not initially reported, either because they were never initially counted (which was the case in Floyd) or not uploaded correctly (the latter three counties). Those counties all reuploaded their results, which shrank Biden’s margin by around 1,400 votes, not enough to jeopardize his lead.

Raffensperger has been under withering criticism from members of his own party, who have alleged impropriety without providing any specific evidence. He has faced pressure from both the state’s Republican senators, Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue, to step down, while Rep. Doug Collins, a close ally of Trump, has been blistering in his criticism. But Raffensperger has stood firm and defended the integrity of the election, which election officials across the country say was secure and free from systemic fraud.

“This is not a political process. It’s really an accounting process, it’s adding up all the numbers and making sure they line up,” Raffensperger said in an interview with POLITICO on Wednesday afternoon.

It is not immediately clear whether the Trump campaign would request a recount. But unlike other states, such as Wisconsin, where the Trump campaign paid $3 million for a partial recount in two heavily Democratic areas of the state, state and local election officials would shoulder the cost burden of a recount in Georgia.

A recount, following the audit, would be exceedingly unlikely to change Biden’s victory. The recount would be a machine retabulation of the ballots, and the secretary of state’s office says the audit showed that the machines did a proper job in counting votes.

Trump and his allies have spread significant misinformation about the Georgia voting process. The president wrongly claimed that signatures could not be verified in the state, while he and his team have falsely alleged that Dominion voting systems have switched votes away from him across the country. Earlier in the week, Raffensperger’s office announced the results of an audit of a random sample of the actual voting machines, which “found no evidence of the machines being tampered.”