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From 2019. Note the timing.

Georgia Awards $107M Voting Machine Contract to Dominion The Colorado-based company will supply the state with 30,000 touchscreen voting machines capable of printing paper ballots. The controversial technology is expected to bring court challenges.

From 2006, so we can't say we weren't warned...

Update: Is ‘vote flipping’ an e-voting problem or user error?

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I’m gonna go with user error.

1. NEVER observed this or heard it reported in our county.

2. Hard for a poll worker to verify because legally we CANNOT observe a voter marking their ballot. It’s against the law ...

3. When you vote in GA first you check in, get validated, and then handed a little green card. The green card has NO voter information on it and ONLY contains the information to tell the touchscreen tablet what ballot to display. The touchscreen tablet is called a ballot marking device or BMD. It displays the ballot, one page at a time, you ‘mark’ you ballot using a stylus or your finger, THEN the machine takes you through the step of REVIEWING what you entered. You have the chance to make changes and corrections. Once you are happy with your ballot you print it. RIGHT NOW the printed ballot shows how you voted in printed text and also displays the dreaded QR code (the part going away.) So you have yet another chance to confirm your ballot says what you want it to say. *IF* you detect an error at that point, you can still report it to a poll worker. We will ‘spoil’ that printed ballot [it affects our checks and balances numbers so it’s work for us to do] get you a new green card, and you get to mark up a new ballot, print it and take it to the scanner. The scanner today reads the QR code. [uh oh]. It also drops your ballot (no names on it) into a bin. The scanned votes are recorded on TWO separate solid state disc drives in the scanner which are secured by lock and numbered seal. You have not voted, actually, until you scan your ballot and the vote count on its screen increments by one. Even at this point if there’s a jam or a tear (RARELY HAPPENS) we can spoil the ballot and let you do it again.

When the polls close on election day ALL the scanned paper ballots are taken from the bin and placed into secure bags or cases. The disc drives are removed from the scanner handled by a separate secure handling process. This process *MUST* be witnessed by two or more witnesses. In our county the poll manager and the assistant poll manager then transport the ballots, drives and other poll paperwork to the county office. A county deputy follows them from the poll location to the county office.

All the paper and digital records are retained I believed for 2 years. Could be more.