Georgia Election Board Asks DOJ to Probe Voting System
The Facts
- Georgia State Election Board Executive Director James Mills sent letters Wednesday asking the Justice Department (DOJ) to review and investigate the state's voting system, ballot secrecy and the preservation of and access to election records.
- The letters, dated Sept. 30, were addressed to Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Harmeet Dhillon and copied to Attorney General Todd Blanche and Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin.
- Mills asked the department to prohibit QR-code-based vote tabulation under the Help America Vote Act, set a six-month deadline for a compliant system and compel an immediate software update before the Nov. 3 election.
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The Spin
Republican narrative
Georgia voters deserve a system where the vote that gets counted is the one actually readable on paper, not a scrambled QR code no human can check. Known vulnerabilities sit unpatched even though the fix is certified and free, and a flaw that links voters to their ballots shreds the secret ballot. Officials who hide records and hand driver and voter data to outside groups should answer for it.
Democratic narrative
Nobody serious about election security waits until weeks before voting to demand a statewide overhaul of the machines their own party bought and ran for years. The Constitution gives states control of election administration, so begging federal lawyers to decertify equipment and set deadlines is a pretext for Washington to seize ballots. A board that distrusts clean voter rolls protects nothing but a losing hand.
