Over 1,450 Voters Demand Reexamination of Georgia's New Voting System

[diva77]

Voters, five organizations challenge system certification

A petition was filed Monday on behalf of over 1,450 registered Georgia voters from 100 counties requesting a mandatory re-examination of the Dominion Voting System recently selected by the Secretary of State. The contract for the new voting system was announced on July 29, 2019, and certified by Secretary of State Brad Raffensberger on August 9. According to the petition, the voting system fails to meet the requirements of Georgia Voting System Certification Rule 590-8-1-.01, and fails to comply with the Georgia Election Code. According to Georgia law, the Secretary of State is required to re-examine the machines upon proper request from ten or more citizens.

“The new barcode balloting voting system is fundamentally flawed, cannot meet Georgia’s Election Code and violates voting protections of the US Constitution,” said Marilyn Marks, Executive Director of the Coalition for Good Governance, “Voters will no longer tolerate unauditable electronic voting systems in Georgia, and are taking back control of their elections through actions like this petition that officials cannot ignore.”

“It appears the Secretary of State cut some corners to rush the certification of a new voting system,” said Susan Greenhalgh, Vice President of Policy and Programs for the National Election Defense Coalition. “For years the Georgia Secretaries of State have ignored the calls for secure, auditable elections provided by paper ballots. The new $100 million voting system was rushed through certification and still fails to provide voters with a trustworthy, auditable voting systems.”

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This is from a press release sent today, 8/19/19 by:
Coalition for Good Governance
Marilyn Marks, Executive Director
704 292 9802, [e-mail]
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The Dominion "voting" machines are Ballot Marking Devices (BMDs)

[Wounded Bear]

1. Sunlight is the best disinfectant...

[diva77]

2. Absolutely. And time to crack down on ALL SOS's -- they all certify voting systems

that are completely non-transparent.

[Wounded Bear]

3. It varies from state to state...

In fact, ours is a Repub IIRC, but she seems to actually do her job in a non-partisan way.

But much light needs to be shined on voting shenanigans nationwide.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

5. What state are you in?

[Wounded Bear]

6. Washington. We have vote by mail...

so at the very least we have paper ballots.

I think a lot of the problems could be helped a lot legislatively. In some states, it looks like the SoS has too much ability to affect the outcome.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

7. Agreed

Especially in places like Georgia when Kemp was the SOS running for a higher office. Or Katherine Harris in Florida. Or Kobach in Kansas. I don't even understand how/why it is a partisan office. It actually should be an independent office IMHO.

[Wounded Bear]

8. Yeah, but there is a problem with that, too...

We have numerous "non-partisan" offices on our ballots every cycle. Frankly, I don't really like it.

I agree that many offices "should" be non-partisan, but what it seems to do is give partisan hacks a back door into some jobs they shouldn't be in. Or at least it seems to.

The framers kind of screwed us by ignoring politcal parties when they wrote the Constitution.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

9. I didn't think about that

but you have a point. Frankly, I don't care about who is SOS as long as they are following the rule of law and acting in accordance with it. There are too many partisan hacks controlling elections in states and it's ruining our election system.

[diva77]

11. what is "Repub IIRC" ?

[Wounded Bear]

12. She is a Republican if I recall correctly...

[diva77]

13. Thanks!

I did try to google that but was still unable to figure it out b4 I asked

[blm]

4. Don't trust any company with Dominion in its name

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[diva77]

10. Amen to that!