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Judge weighs ordering switch to paper ballots in Georgia
Kate Brumback, Associated Press
Updated 2:53 pm CDT, Saturday, July 27, 2019
ATLANTA (AP) Georgia allowed its election system to grow "way too old and archaic" and now has a deep hole to dig out of to ensure that the constitutional right to vote is protected, according to U.S. District Judge Amy Totenberg.
Now Totenberg is in the difficult position of having to decide whether the state, which plans to implement a new voting system statewide next year, must immediately abandon its outdated voting machines in favor of an interim solution for special and municipal elections to be held this fall.
Election integrity advocates and individual voters sued Georgia election officials in 2017 alleging that the touchscreen voting machines the state has used since 2002 are unsecure and vulnerable to hacking. They've asked Totenberg to order the state to immediately switch to hand-marked paper ballots.
But lawyers for state election officials and for Fulton County, the state's most populous county that includes most of Atlanta, argued that the state is in the process of implementing a new system, and it would be too costly, burdensome and chaotic to use an interim system for elections this fall and then switch to the new permanent system next year.
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Judge weighs ordering switch to paper ballots in Georgia (Original Post)
Judi Lynn
Jul 2019
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elleng
(130,865 posts)1. Isn't it always 'too costly, burdensome and chaotic'
to do the right thing?
Judi Lynn
(160,516 posts)2. We have learned NOT doing the right thing is far more costly, etc., just the way they want it.
The way the right-wing wants it incurs a horrendous expense affecting many aspects of our lives, and it's paid by the vast majority of us.
Sad they keep getting by with it.