Georgia election board will not immediately move ahead with GOP plan to fix flaw in election system
The board adjourned without voting after Republicans said the change could burden counties and risk uncounted ballots.
- On Thursday, the Georgia state election board adjourned without voting on a Republican Party proposal to require officials to shuffle ballots at polling sites before they are cast.
- As Election Day approaches, a 2022 software flaw discovered by researchers allows ballots to be reordered, potentially letting observers match ballots to voters using publicly available data.
- Republican board members Janelle King and Carolyn Roddy criticized the proposal, citing potential burdens on officials and lost ballots; Roddy argued the plan 'does more harm than good' this close to voting.
- Election security expert Ben Adida warned that software updates shortly before an election could cause bigger problems, prompting the board to instead vote for a resolution urging officials to upgrade voting software.
- The approved resolution calls on the board's executive director to seek assistance from the Trump administration, as Georgia remains a key presidential battleground state with a highly watched Senate race this year.
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SEB proposal to manually ‘shuffle’ ballots at the polls fails
A last-minute proposal that would have required poll workers to manually “shuffle” ballots before scanning them in an effort to prevent bad actors from identifying how Georgia residents voted failed to advance Thursday at a special-called meeting of the State Election Board. Election workers and advocates said the proposed rule would be impossible to implement […]
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Georgia election board will not immediately move ahead with GOP plan to fix flaw in election system
Two Republicans on Georgia’s state election board are criticizing a proposal by their own party to address a flaw in Georgia’s voting equipment that can allow voters to be matched to their ballots.
Proposal requiring Georgia election workers to ‘shuffle’ ballots at the polls fails to find support - Now Georgia
Proposal requiring Georgia election workers to ‘shuffle’ ballots at the polls fails to find support (Georgia Recorder) — A last-minute proposal that would have required poll workers to manually “shuffle” ballots before scanning them in an effort to prevent bad actors from identifying how Georgia residents voted failed to advance Thursday at a special-called meeting of the State Election Board. Ele…
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