ATLANTA – Georgia election officials say they’re implementing a software change to fix a glitch in the state’s new voting machines.
During pre-election testing on the new touchscreen voting machines last week, election officials in two counties discovered a problem with the display for a high-profile, 21-candidate U.S. Senate race.
Lawyers representing election integrity activists told U.S. District Judge Amy Totenberg this problem and others bolster their arguments that the voting machines are not secure and aren’t ready for use.
County election officials will then have to install the software on hundreds of voting machines, reprogram the machines and then do preelection testing, the filing says.
Election officials in one county told them that, during preelection testing, the tabulation of absentee ballots did not work at all.