They knew about these glitches, there was already a lawsuit in GA about this software before the election. *****uCf8Iyih6Y
— Shell (@Shelliemarie_c) November 8, 2020
ATLANTA (AP) — With the start of early voting less than a week away and a software update being installed to address a glitch in Georgia’s voting machines, a federal judge was still considering a request by voting integrity activists to sideline the new touchscreen voting machines in favor of hand-marked paper ballots for the November general election.
U.S. District Judge Amy Totenberg is presiding over a long-running lawsuit challenging the election system the state bought last year from Dominion Voting Systems for more than $100 million. The activists argue the system places an unconstitutional burden on the right to vote because voters cannot be confident their votes are accurately counted. A bug in the touchscreen machines and a hasty software update underscore that the machines aren’t ready for use, they say.
State officials have countered that Georgia has made significant improvements in recent years to update and secure election infrastructure. They have urged Totenberg not to order any changes so close to the election, saying they would be extremely costly and difficult to implement in time. The new problem was identified through testing meant to catch such issues and was quickly addressed, they say.
The three-week in-person early voting period is set to begin Monday, and Election Day is less than four weeks away.
Totenberg said she had been ready to issue a ruling on Sept. 28 until the activists raised new concerns about the voting machines in a Friday night court filing three days earlier.
During preelection testing, county election officials discovered a problem with the display for a high-profile, 21-candidate U.S. Senate race. Under certain circumstances, not all of the candidates’ names fit on a single screen.
Lawyers for the state told the judge during an emergency teleconference Sept. 28 that it was a “very minor issue” that could be addressed with a software change.
Lawyers for the activists raised concerns about the severity of the problem and the security of a last-minute fix.
Dominion submitted the fix to a third-party laboratory, Pro V&V, for evaluation. A report from Pro V&V says the problem is not found in the new version of the software and the change was minor.
The election integrity activists submitted declarations from two computer science experts who reviewed the Pro V&V report. They said the evaluation was insufficient to verify the cause of the problem and the effectiveness of the solution.
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