It's word semantics. They did not audit. Calling it an audit is a purposeful lie. They recounted. That's not an audit. Legally they are very different activities. A count simply counts what you have. An audit carefully reviews how you obtained the items of count and if it was legally permissible to include them. For example, millions of ballots were poisoned outside chain of custody. Legally they cannot be counted. A recount recounted them.