Election experts in Georgia often ponder a major discrepancy – the gap between the security of the state’s election apparatus and the amount of trust some people have in it.
“I made this point back in 2020, when I went and watched an audit in our recount in Bartow County,” said Matt Mashburn, the former acting chair of the Georgia State Election Board. “What I said was the great paradox of our time is we have the most looked at, accessible, transparent, checked and rechecked election that’s ever been possible in Georgia’s history, and nobody believed it.”
Mashburn spoke as part of a series of bipartisan discussions on election protection at Georgia State University Tuesday, the first day of general election early voting in Georgia.
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