Georgia’s ballot ‘audit’ starts today. Is it actually a recount?

ATLANTA — Georgia on Friday begins tallying — by hand — nearly 5 million ballots that were cast in the state in the Nov. 3 presidential election. But is it a recount? An “audit”? And why are they doing it? It’s all a bit confusing, but election experts say what’s happening in Georgia — where unofficial results show Joe Biden leading President Trump by about 14,000 votes — is unlikely to change the outcome. While discrepancies in the final vote count are likely, that doesn’t mean anything nefarious happened. Experts say some discrepancies are expected when so many votes are counted a second time using an entirely different method — by hand versus by machine. While Trump has been...