Georgia’s Secretary of State office is facing a lawsuit over its use of an all-electronic voting system with no paper ballot verification backups, one of five states that currently use such a system. The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia is holding proceedings for Donna Curling v. Brian Kemp. Plaintiff attorney David Cross said his clients are asking the judge for a preliminary injunction to stop Secretary of State Brian Kemp from using Georgia’s current all-electronic voting system in the November elections. The lawsuit stems from the alleged 2016 discovery of cybersecurity vulnerabilities in Georgia’s Direct Recording Equipment (DRE) voting system. The plaintiffs claim that the Secretary of State’s ignored repeated warnings from cybersecurity experts and told them, in essence, to go away, according to a copy of the amended complaint. The complaint asserted that there is an “incompatibility between the functioning of the current electronic voting system and the voters’ right to cast a secret ballot and have that vote accurately counted.”
The group behind the report is the Coalition for Good Governance, a North Carolina-based nonprofit that describes itself as a defender of individual rights, especially those in the First Amendment.
Cybersecurity researchers were able to peer into personal information submitted by Georgia voters, as well as access key components of the state’s electronic election system without entering a password, the complaint alleges.
Full Article: Nonprofit Sues Georgia, Seeking to Prevent Voting on All-Electric Systems in November.