Late Friday, U.S. District Judge Amy Totenberg denied a motion by Georgia election officials to dismiss a case that claims the state’s electronic voting system is insecure.
The Curling v. Raffensperger suit was initially filed in 2017 by Democrats who want the state to ditch its electronic voting machines in favor of hand-marked paper ballots. The plaintiffs argued that the paperless touchscreen voting machines had major cybersecurity flaws that amounted to a violation of voters’ constitutional rights in the Peach State. The suit was amended in 2019 to challenge the new Dominion election system, with claims that the new voting system had similar vulnerabilities.
Since 2019, Georgia has used Dominion’s election equipment in all 159 counties, which includes 34,000 ballot machines and several thousand scanners.
The suit maintains that the voting system, “as currently designed and implemented, suffers from major cybersecurity deficiencies that unconstitutionally burden the plaintiffs First and Fourteenth Amendment rights and capacity to case effective votes that are accurately counted.”
Georgia’s Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger and the Election Board had…
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