Overview

• Georgia's voting system is under scrutiny in a federal trial, with plaintiffs arguing that the state's touchscreen voting machines are vulnerable to hacking and infringe on voters' constitutional rights.
• Plaintiffs, including the Coalition for Good Governance, argue for a return to hand-marked paper ballots, which are used by about 70% of voters in the rest of the country.
• Georgia's current system, made by Dominion Voting Systems, prints a ballot with a barcode after voters use touchscreens, which a scanner reads to record each voter's choices.
• Georgia is one of few states to use touchscreen voting machines for all of its nearly 8 million registered voters.
• The outcome of the trial could potentially lead to Georgia voters choosing candidates by pen and paper in the 2024 presidential election.