A federal judge has ordered Georgia counties to have a back-up paper copy of the list used to check in voters for the November elections.
The electronic pollbook issue is part of a larger, ongoing legal dispute over whether the new voting system is secure and can produce reliable results. It’s a fight that’s playing out just weeks before early voting begins across the state.
In her order issued Monday, U.S. District Court Judge Amy Totenberg wrote that the evidence presented in the lawsuit “demonstrates a system-wide problem of malfunctioning electronic PollPads” dating back to last November when six counties began using the new system in a pilot program. Problems with checking in voters also contributed to long lines in the June primaries.
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