Democrats and Republicans in Georgia have found common ground, calling on the state elections board to phase out electronic voting machines and switch to paper ballots.
The two political parties in the state It is called According to 11Alive News, the Georgia Board of Elections is calling for the state to switch from using Dominion Voting Systems’ electronic voting machines to using hand-written paper ballots, citing how easily hackers could “rig the election.”
Following the 2020 presidential election, Dominion filed a lawsuit alleging that Fox News suggested the company rigged voting machines, leading to former President Donald Trump’s loss to President Joe Biden.
“The reality is, it’s insanity to put a system in place and have every vote depend on it,” Morgan County Democratic Party Chair Jean Dufort said in a statement.
Dr Rich DeMillo, founder of the Georgia Tech School of Cybersecurity and Privacy, said the “series of breaches”, particularly in cybersecurity over the past “two years”, had “revealed one after another” of “systemic vulnerabilities that had been ignored”.
“The series of global breaches of cybersecurity systems over the past two years has shown example after example of systems vulnerabilities being ignored,” DeMillo said in a statement.
The outlet also noted that security cameras showed Trump supporters “entering the secured area of the Coffee County elections office” and copying election software.
“We believe what the experts say: bad actors, both domestic and foreign, have an interest in subverting or interfering with the outcome of our election,” Dufort added, “and we believe they now have very good tools to do so.”
