The Atlanta Division of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia is hearing the case of Curling v. Raffensperger, where the plaintiffs are asking to switch from electronic voting machines to paper ballots.
Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger and State Election Board members were first sued by the Coalition for Good Governance and several individual voters in 2017.
David Cross, a lawyer for some of the individual voters, issued a statement saying "We look forward to presenting our full evidence at trial and obtaining critical relief for Georgia voters." Cross continued to say "But we hope this decision will be a much-needed wakeup call for the Secretary and SEB, and finally spur them to work with us on a negotiated resolution that secures the right to vote in Georgia." When the lawsuit was first filed in 2017, it challenged the paperless voting machines that Georgia was using at the time.
After Georgia purchased the current system in 2019, the case shifted to those voting machines, saying that they also have vulnerabilities.
In June, a nearly 2-year-old redacted report was finally made public by Totenberg, showing that Dominion voting machines had significant vulnerabilities, which led the Department of Homeland Security's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency to issue a public advisory last year based on the findings.
The broader voting system could be attacked if bad actors have the same access to it as certain county-level election officials, the report also concluded.
The MITRE report said the Halderman report findings were "Operationally infeasible" when considering adherence to strict security measures, normal voting practices, and scale considerations.
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