So did Professor Wenke Lee of the Georgia Institute of Technology (the commission’s only cybersecurity expert). So did Verified Voting, a well-respected nonpartisan national election integrity group. In the past week alone, 24 highly regarded election experts, including many experts in election cybersecurity, advised the SAFE Commission to reject touchscreen barcode systems and instead move to hand-marked paper ballots and scanners for most voters.
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That recommendation thumbs its nose at the advice of every independent cybersecurity expert who has weighed in on the issue of how to improve Georgia’s voting system. The SAFE Commission was assembled by Kemp in response to that failed legislation, and its recommendation is expected to carry weight during the current legislative session. This is also the type of system that triggered substantial controversy during Georgia’s last legislative session, when Republican lawmakers tried and failed to pass a bill that would have enabled Kemp to buy ES&S’s barcode balloting system back then. This is the type of voting system that Governor Brian Kemp (R) and the state’s current voting machine vendor, Election Systems & Software, LLC (ES&S), promoted during a pilot study in Rockdale last year, when Kemp was secretary of state. Ignoring the advice of independent cybersecurity experts, Georgia’s Secure, Accessible & Fair Elections (SAFE) Commission on Thursday recommended that the state purchase controversial new touchscreen ballot-marking devices that use barcodes to capture and count voters’ selections.
The state of Georgia, still reeling from reports of multiple election security breaches over the past two years, has moved one perilous step closer to replacing its 16-year-old F-rated touchscreen voting machines with yet another glaringly vulnerable touchscreen voting system.
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