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Trial gets underway for constitutional challenge to Georgia's election system
Read full article: Trial gets underway for constitutional challenge to Georgia's election systemThe trial in a long-running legal challenge to the constitutionality of Georgia’s election is getting underway in federal court in Atlanta.
Is Georgia's election system constitutional? A federal judge will decide in trial set to begin
Read full article: Is Georgia's election system constitutional? A federal judge will decide in trial set to beginElection integrity activists want a federal judge to order Georgia to stop using its current election system.
Constitutional challenge to Georgia voting machines set for trial early next year
Read full article: Constitutional challenge to Georgia voting machines set for trial early next yearThe question of whether Georgia’s electronic voting system has major cybersecurity flaws that amount to a violation of voters’ constitutional rights to cast their votes and have those votes accurately counted is set to be decided at trial early next year.
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Judge orders Georgia to have paper pollbook backups
Read full article: Judge orders Georgia to have paper pollbook backupsShe also urged the secretary of state to ensure that poll workers are well trained, along with accurate paper backups, to keep voting lines moving. She also ordered that efforts be made to ensure that county election officials and poll workers are trained on using paper pollbook backups and emergency ballots and that a sufficient stock of emergency paper ballots be maintained. Totenberg’s ruling follows a three-day hearing earlier this month in a long-running fight over Georgia’s voting machines. Totenberg’s ruling deals primarily with the issue of paper pollbook backups. State officials have argued that Georgia has made significant improvements in recent years to update and secure its election infrastructure.
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Lawyers spar over Georgia voting machine glitch, planned fix
Read full article: Lawyers spar over Georgia voting machine glitch, planned fixATLANTA – Georgia election officials say they’re implementing a software change to fix a glitch in the state’s new voting machines. During pre-election testing on the new touchscreen voting machines last week, election officials in two counties discovered a problem with the display for a high-profile, 21-candidate U.S. Senate race. Lawyers representing election integrity activists told U.S. District Judge Amy Totenberg this problem and others bolster their arguments that the voting machines are not secure and aren’t ready for use. County election officials will then have to install the software on hundreds of voting machines, reprogram the machines and then do preelection testing, the filing says. Election officials in one county told them that, during preelection testing, the tabulation of absentee ballots did not work at all.
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Judge weighs ordering changes to Georgia’s election system
Read full article: Judge weighs ordering changes to Georgia’s election systemLawyers for election integrity advocates, who filed a lawsuit challenging Georgia’s election system, are asking U.S. District Judge Amy Totenberg to order the state to abandon its new voting machines in favor of hand-marked paper ballots, among other changes. They say Georgia’s current election system does not allow voters to have confidence that their vote is accurately counted, which they argue is an unconstitutional burden on the right to vote. The lawsuit originally filed in June 2017 targeted the outdated, paperless, touchscreen voting machines Georgia had used since 2002. The state last year bought a new election system that includes touchscreen machines that print a paper ballot that’s read by a scanner. As evidence of insufficient “hardening” of election hardware, McGuire pointed to testimony that games were found loaded on election computers in multiple counties.
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Another showdown set this week over Georgia voting machines
Read full article: Another showdown set this week over Georgia voting machines(AP Photo/Mike Stewart, File)ATLANTA Voting integrity activists will try this week to convince a federal judge that Georgia should scrap its brand new touchscreen voting machines in favor of hand-marked paper ballots. A lawsuit filed in 2017 against state and county election officials that originally challenged the state's old, outdated voting machines has morphed to target the new machines and election system that Georgia bought last year for more than $100 million. They asked Totenberg to order a switch to hand-marked paper ballots for the midterm elections. Totenberg told both sides during a conference call that she didn't consider herself a guarantor for Georgia's election system roll-out. Switching to hand-marked paper ballots would be easy because that's already the backup in place in case of emergencies, like equipment failures, they argue.

Federal judge bans outdated voting machines in Georgia
Read full article: Federal judge bans outdated voting machines in GeorgiaATLANTA - A federal judge has ordered Georgia to stop using its outdated voting machines after this year and to be ready with hand-marked paper ballots if its new system isn't in place for the presidential primaries. U.S. District Judge Amy Totenberg's 153-page ruling Thursday is not a complete victory for either side. Voting integrity advocates and individual voters had wanted an immediate switch to hand-marked paper ballots. Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger has certified a new voting system and said it will be in place for the March primaries. The ruling means the state can keep its plans to use the old system for special and municipal elections this fall.

Server image mystery in Georgia election security case
Read full article: Server image mystery in Georgia election security caseScreen of an electronic voting machine during testing at the Kennesaw State University Center for Election Systems in Kennesaw, Ga. The FBI data is central to activists challenge to Georgias highly questioned, centrally administered elections system, which lacks an auditable paper trail and was run at the time by Gov. Under a new law signed by Kemp, Georgia plans to buy a voting system by years end that uses electronic ballot-marking devices. State election officials are also defendants in a lawsuit filed by an organization founded by Stacey Abrams, the Democrat he narrowly defeated last year. Judge Totenberg has found merit in the plaintiffs arguments that Georgias current touch-screen voting system represents a threat to democracy, an opinion backed last year by a distinguished panel of voting security experts.