Georgia awards contract for new voting machines
Source: The Hill
Georgia awarded a $150 million contract to voting equipment manufacturer Dominion Voting Systems to implement a verified paper ballot system in the state prior to the March 2020 presidential primaries, the Georgia Secretary of States office announced on Monday.
This will involve replacing current voting machines in Georgia with machines from Dominion that print a paper ballot after the voter has made their choices to further secure the vote against outside interference.
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Raffenspergers office noted in a statement that the machines will be in place by March 24, 2020, the date of Georgias Presidential Preference Primary. The Secretary of States office has already partnered with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and private cyber companies to improve election security in the state, with several Georgia counties working with DHS to provide security assessments of election offices.
The new machines are being put in place after a new law in April that requires elections in Georgia to be conducted with the use of scanning ballots marked by electronic ballot markers and tabulated by using ballot scanners for voting at the polls and for absentee ballots cast in person. The electronic ballots markers are required to produce paper ballots.
Read more: https://thehill.com/policy/cybersecurity/455211-georgia-awards-contract-for-new-voting-machines
democratisphere
(17,235 posts)So what is up with the rest of the states. Paper ballots let's go.
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)We use these:
I'm suspicious of anything more complicated than this.
brooklynite
(94,602 posts)An electronic ballot marker ensures that the ballot is readable by the scanner.
asiliveandbreathe
(8,203 posts)CentralMass
(15,265 posts)asiliveandbreathe
(8,203 posts)from 4/22/2019..but has so much info re these machines...but, what can anyone do but watch money change hands...
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/apr/22/us-voting-machines-paper-ballots-2020-hacking
Ron Rivest, MIT
Also.....
https://www.coalitionforgoodgovernance.org/news/