A Federal Judge Predicted Election Day Chaos In Atlanta — Georgia Republicans Deserve Blame – By Shipwreckedcrew (Red State) / Nov 10 2020
That said, the GOP voters of Georgia and the Country should not be made to pay the price for Georgia state politicians — led by the Secretary of State — ramming through the use of a new voting electronic voting system that was identified months in advance of having operation deficiencies, vulnerabilities, and the inability to have a meaningful post-election audit or recount of ballots in the event of a razor-thin outcome.
On October 12, 2020, District Court Judge Amy Totenberg issued an Order denying a motion for preliminary injunction sought by various voting rights groups that would have prevented the Georgia Secretary of State from using a new electronic voting system which it contracted with Dominion Voting Systems to provide.
This case was originally filed in 2017 — it has nothing to do with COVID-19, mail-in voting, or changes to Georgia election laws by any judge. In 2019, Judge Totenberg held that Georgia’s existing voting system was unreliable and used software vulnerable to outside penetration that posed problems for election security and integrity. She found that the experience of Georgia voters in the 2018 midterm elections confirmed that continued use of the existing system violated state and federal constitutional rights of Georgia residents to free and fair elections, and ordered Georgia to replace the outdated “electronic touch” voting machines with either a paper-marking balloting system or an electronic balloting system that generated a paper ballot that the voter could review prior to the votes being cast.
The Georgia Secretary of State, the defendant in the litigation, entered into a $105 million contract with Dominion Voting Systems (DVS) to provide electronic voting equipment and tabulating system in time for use in the November 2020 general election.
