Press Release: VoterGA.org
ATLANTA, August 24, 2021 – VoterGA today announced joining with State Rep. Philip
Singleton in a legal petition to ban Georgia’s Dominion Democracy Suite 5.5 voting system. The
voting system has already been declared in violation of Georgia law by the U.S. District Court of
Northern Georgia.
Georgia law requires a voting system to “print an elector verifiable paper ballot;” and “…produce
paper ballots which are marked with the elector’s choices in a format readable by the elector”.
After reviewing extensive evidence in the Curling v. Raffensperger case, Judge Amy Totenberg
concluded: “Plaintiffs and other voters who wish to vote in-person are required to vote
on a system that does none of those things.”
Petition Seeks Temporary and Permanent Injunctions
The petition seeks temporary and permanent injunctions against the state’s use of the new voting
system on grounds that its unverifiability to the voter makes it illegal. The Dominion Democracy
Suite 5.5 system uses a touchscreen Ballot Marking Device (BMD) to print voter selections with a
QR code on a sheet of paper. The scanners ignore the printed voter selections and read the QR code
to determine candidates selected and to tabulate election results. The QR code is not human
readable, even with a QR code reader and is thus illegal under Georgia law.
Attorney Todd Harding of Maddox and Harding filed the petition in Fulton County Superior Court.
Harding is also representing VoterGA petitioners in the Fulton County Ballot Inspection lawsuit.
Details of both cases can be found on the VoterGA.org. Legal tab.
Petition Highlights
The petition contends that recommendations provided by VoterGA to the Secure, Accurate, Fair
Election Commission (SAFE) warned that any new system must tabulate human readable vote
marks that can be verified by the voter. It also contends that VoterGA co-founder Garland Favorito
and Madison Forum President Michael Opitz warned Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger about
the unverifiability of QR coded voting systems like the Democracy Suite when he was a runoff
candidate in 2018. Raffensperger did not heed the warnings and purchased the new Dominion
system for over $100 million in 2019.
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