VoterGA reports that the Georgia Senate has taken its first major step toward voter-marked paper ballots, with its Ethics Committee voting to abandon both unverifiable electronic voting and “new wave” technology that counts votes in computer-generated barcodes rather than human-readable marks. The committee's vote, which came during a hearing on Senate Bill SB403, was unanimous.
"Some ballot marking devices employ a touchscreen to create bar coded selections of voter choices that are interpreted internally by a scanner and accumulated when the votes are cast. The unverifiable bar code technology, promoted by certain vendors and the office of the Secretary of State, enables a 'new wave' of hacking possibilities and significant potential for undetectable errors," writes VoterGA in this press release.
"Some ballot marking devices employ a touchscreen to create bar coded selections of voter choices that are interpreted internally by a scanner and accumulated when the votes are cast. The unverifiable bar code technology, promoted by certain vendors and the office of the Secretary of State, enables a 'new wave' of hacking possibilities and significant potential for undetectable errors," writes VoterGA in this press release.
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