Georgia’s Ballot-Marking Devices

2021-02-01 16:09

Suppose the polling-place optical scanners had been hacked.

Then this would have been detected in the audit, and Georgia would have been able to recover by doing a full recount.

That's what we mean when we say optical-scan voting machines have "Strong software independence"you can obtain a trustworthy result even if you're not sure about the software in the machine on election day.

If Georgia had still been using the paperless touchscreen DRE voting machines that they used from 2003 to 2019, then there would have been no paper ballots to recount, and no way to disprove the allegations that the election was hacked.

I'll bet that Secretary of State Raffensperger now appreciates why the Federal Court forced him to stop using those DRE machines.

I have long advocated voter-verifiable paper ballots, and this is an example of why.

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