Trial gets underway for constitutional challenge to Georgia's election system

In this Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2019 photo, a touchscreen voting machine and printer are seen in a voting booth, in Paulding, Ga. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart)

Updated at 4:24 p.m.

Jeff Schoenberg wants to have “reasonable confidence” that the votes he casts when he goes to his polling place are accurately counted — and he doesn’t believe he gets that from Georgia’s election system.

He and other voters, along with an election integrity organization, have sued state election officials, alleging that the system is vulnerable to attack and has operational issues that amount to an unconstitutional burden on citizens’ fundamental right to vote and to have their votes counted accurately.