The final report expected this week from Brian Kemp’s Secure, Accurate and Fair Elections (SAFE) commission will recommend voting systems that experts deem unsafe. The report will recommend electronic ballot markers over hand marked paper ballots including ballot markers that embed hidden unverifiable votes in digital bar codes for tabulation. Such systems were strongly discouraged as security risks by computer scientists, Election Integrity advocates, public speakers at all commission meetings and even the commission’s own cyber security expert.
On the eve of what would turn out to be its last meeting, SAFE commission members received a draft of recommendations for the commission to make from Secretary of State (SOS) legal counsel Ryan Germany. The draft conflicted with positions of the commission’s cyber security expert Dr. Wenke Lee, reports from dozens of computer scientists, recommendations from Verified Voting and VoterGA as well as nearly all members of the general public who spoke during public comment periods.
VoterGA obtained a copy of the draft and found it contained recommendationsnever expressed by any commission member at any meeting. The report recommended that the recount trigger percentage be lowered from a 1% margin of victory to .5% but no member ever expressed that as a need. Likewise, the report stated that all forms of tabulation should be considered despite overwhelming expert and public testimony against unverifiable systems that tabulate hidden votes embedded in bar codes.
Full Article: Watchdog says Georgia Voting Machine Commission Recommended “Unsafe Voting Systems” – AllOnGeorgia.