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31 document. And is that, Mr. Donoghue, the white paper that Attorney General Barr asked the Homeland Security folks to produce?

Right. I think Attorney General Barr in asking for a white paper was hoping for something more substantive and detailed, but they produced this one-pager with these bullet points, which was sufficient and made the point.

And, looking at the report, it says at the top: Those records were reviewed yesterday and recounted by hand. This verification, independent of the software and hardware systems in question, returned results that indicates the consistency of the systems, with a 12-vote difference from the previous final tally. That reflects what you said earlier about the fact that hand recount confirmed that the accuracy—essential veracity of the machine count?

Correct. And although it changed, I believe, 12 votes, when you added them all up within Antrim, I believe it was actually only a one-vote swing ultimately. There were different election districts, and so, when you compiled all the election districts, yes, there was a difference of 12 votes, but in the end, they canceled each other out to the extent that there was only a one-vote difference, and there were about 15,000 votes cast in the county.

Yeah. So you went from initially an ASOG report that suggested, oh, a 68-percent error rate, we may have a real problem, to a hand recount that actually confirmed within 1 vote out of 15,000, the results were accurate?

Right. And I did the math, and that's an error rate of .0063 percent, which is well within the tolerance for election equipment.

And certainly insufficient to cast doubt on the overall results of the Michigan election?

Correct.