VoterGA, a nonprofit election integrity organization, launched an effort urging voters to call on Georgia state lawmakers to call a special session and vote to unplug the state’s electronic voting system before the next election.
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VoterGA provides an online form on its website that allows Georgians to contact their elected officials to “let them know they must call a special session to unplug the illegal, unverifiable, inaccurate, unsecure, voting system.”
“Georgia voters can no longer trust voting on the Dominion voting system. It is inaccurate, unsecure, illegal, unverifiable to the voter, and an unnecessary financial burden on the counties,” VoterGA writes on its website, adding, “It is imperative that the Legislature call a special session to protect the 2024 election with security grade hand-marked paper ballots, publicly hand-counted with full audits, and ballots publicly available immediately after the election.”
The election integrity group says that Georgia’s voting system is “unverifiable to voters because it accumulates their votes from a QR code that they cannot read” and failed to produce “accurate results for Coffee County in 2020 and it declared the wrong winners in the 2022 DeKalb District 2 Commissioner race.”
In addition, VoterGA cites a U.S. District Court that found the voting system’s “unverifiability violates two Georgia laws” and a recent expert report evaluating the security of the state’s voting equipment for its reasoning to call for the voting systems to be unplugged.
“Urge your State Representative and State Senator to act now to save Georgia’s 2024 election. They must vote to call a special session and vote to unplug Dominion Voting Systems. We are almost out of time,” VoterGA adds.
Earlier this month, VoterGA called on Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to unplug the Dominion Voting Systems across the state.
Raffensperger has repeatedly claimed that “Georgia’s election system is secure,” adding that there are “layers of security protocols and procedures to physically protect ballots, the system, the software, and the results.”
However, in the wake of Raffensperger’s refusal to unplug all Dominion voting machines, VoterGA has further called on him to “unseal all paper ballots the system has produced and will produce in the future.”
According to its website, Dominion Voting Systems is used in Georgia, Tennessee, Arizona, and 25 additional states, covering more than 1300 jurisdictions, “including nine of the largest 20 counties in the USA.”
The company sued Fox News for defamation in the aftermath of the hotly contested 2020 election cycle and in April, settled with the news giant for $787 million.
“The truth matters. Lies have consequences,” a Dominion lawyer told news outlets at the time the settlement was announced, the Associated Press reported.
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Kaitlin Housler is a reporter at The Georgia Star News and The Star News Network.
Photo “Voting Machine” by uacescomm. CC BY-NC-SA 2.0.
