Judge in long-running lawsuit declines to block the use of Georgia's voting system

A voting machine and voters are shown at a polling location for an election
Voters cast their vote at the Metropolitan branch of the Fulton County Public Library on Election Day, Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2024.

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Updated on April 1, 2025, at 2:50 p.m.

A federal judge has declined to block the use of Georgia’s electronic voting system in a long-running lawsuit alleging that the system is vulnerable to attack and has operational issues that could deprive voters of their constitutional rights.

U.S. District Judge Amy Totenberg found that the activists and individual voters who challenged the state’s voting system didn’t prove that problems prevented them from voting, diluted their votes or kept their votes from being counted. Therefore, she wrote in a ruling Monday, they lack standing to sue, leaving her unable to consider the merits of their claims.