Another showdown set this week over Georgia voting machines A long-running legal battle over Georgia's voting machines gets another court hearing this weekATLANTA -- Voting integrity activists will try this week to convince a federal judge that Georgia should scrap its brand new touchscreen voting machines in favor of hand-marked paper ballots. A lawsuit filed in 2017 against state and county election officials that originally challenged the state's old, outdated voting machines has morphed to target the new machines and election system that Georgia bought last year for more than $100 million. They asked Totenberg to order a switch to hand-marked paper ballots for the midterm elections. Totenberg told both sides during a conference call that she didn't consider herself a “guarantor” for Georgia's election system roll-out. Switching to hand-marked paper ballots would be easy because that's already the backup in place in case of emergencies, like equipment failures, they argue.

Source: ABC News September 09, 2020 11:28 UTC