On August 15, U.S. District Court Judge Amy Totenberg issued a 153-page ruling in Curling v Raffensperger, n.d., 1:17ccv-4660. The state may continue to use its vote-counting equipment for 2019 local elections. These machines do not have a paper trail. But the state is absolutely barred from using them afterwards.
The state legislature already passed a bill to phase out the old machines and use new machines in the March 2020 presidential primary and beyond, but the ruling makes it clear that the state has a bad record on not keeping its promises. If the new equipment is not ready for the March 2020 presidential primary, then the state must use paper ballots. Thanks to Rick Hasen for the link.
Will the E-Voting biz now turn on the Terminator programme ???
See Terminator movies series.
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How USELESS are the USA Congress and ALL State legislatures ???
ALL mail paper secret ballots — Oregon etc. regimes survive.
https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/nation/2019/08/15/judge-georgia-must-scrap-old-voting-machines/39963305/
Judge: Georgia must scrap old voting machines after 2019
Kate Brumback , Associated Press Published 9:25 a.m. ET Aug. 15, 2019 | Updated 12:09 p.m. ET Aug. 15, 2019
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Next to end – GA gerrymanders ???
IE Still a need for another 1864 Union Army to liberate GA ???
@DR,
They will likely buy new machines from the same vendor.
A county may have 100s of ballot styles at an election. Smaller counties may not have anyone who can program the voting machines. If they trained someone, they would be gone by the next election, perhaps hired by the vendor. A larger county might have staff trained with a particular vendor, but would not want to retrain them with a new vendor. There will be business relationships between election officials and salesmen for vendors.
Vendors will be familiar with the legal requirements in the states they deal with.
If a county has mail ballots in addition to DRE’s, the same vendor programmed the DRE’s as programmed the vote-counting machines.
They will have a solution ready for the county, the DRE’s already display a list of candidates selected. It is easy as pie to print the list which the voter will deposit in a ballot box. Or they can print ballots on demand, which after being hand marked can be read by vote counting machines.
They will accept trade-ins from the county, while explaining that they are obsolete technology, and that they will recycle the physical materials, to prevent hackers from gaining access to the old machines.
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How many States manage to survive with ALL paper scanner ballots ???
How many BRIBES and DEATH THREATS in the STONE AGE GA regime of MORONS/HACKS
— about election stuff and non-election stuff ???
How many of the olde punch card ballot devices from the 2000 Bush v Gore chaos are still in use ANY where on Mother Earth ???