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That the new voting machines that Paulding are using are part of a field trial of the system the entire state will use in the Spring.

The counties using the new machines are are Bartow, Carroll, Catoosa, Decatur, Lowndes and Paulding.

Going to be a sprint to get the rest of the state ready in time.

Full AJC Article

Dominion, based in Denver, must rush to install 30,000 voting machines for 7 million Georgia voters before the March 24 presidential primary, the largest rollout of elections equipment in U.S. history. Most voters in Tuesday’s local elections will cast ballots on Georgia’s 17-year-old machines, and voters in six counties are testing Dominion’s machines.

The company faces intense scrutiny in Georgia, one of the most competitive states in the nation entering an election year featuring President Donald Trump and two U.S. Senate seats on the ballot. The challenge for Dominion is to seamlessly introduce computer-printed paper ballots in a state criticized last year over allegations of vote flipping, missing voter registrations, precinct closures, long lines and voter purges.
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Voters in six counties are already trying out Georgia’s new voting equipment during local elections on Tuesday.

Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger and county election officials have said there have been few problems with the initial rollout of the new voting system.

Some minor issues were reported on the first day of in-person early voting. Voter check-in computers weren’t hooked up correctly initially and election workers had trouble programming voter access cards in Paulding County. Those issues were resolved within the first few minutes after polls opened.
 
There have been zero substantiated cases of election fraud or tampering associated with the existing machines. This is another case of spending your tax dollars to appease a few squeaky wheels who cry foul every time an election doesn't go their way. The old paper punch ballots supplied everything they are requesting now. If not for the idiots in Florida being too inept to count freaking ballots this would be a non issue and would have saved millions in taxpayer dollars over the last ten years. You can't fix stupid regardless of the technology. Speaking of that one of the main reasons for using these digital machines is because we cannot wait a few hours to get election results. We are programmed to instant information/results. most of my life I remember waiting until sometime the next morning to get final voting results. Slow down people.
 
I liked the punch card system. If you were too stupid to check your ballot and make sure you had no "Hanging chads" then you deserved to have your vote cancelled, IMHO.

I was one of those that didn't like the old electronic system. Sorry, but a system that your vote goes in the machine and you have no control over what comes out *and* no record of what you really voted is useless and asking for fraud. There was no fraud ever proven with them because there was no *way* to prove fraud because of the lack of paper trail. Recounts were nothing but adding up the vote totals again as there was nothing to count. Useless.

That said, the new machines are NOT what I envisioned either. I wanted a little paper tape on the side that just printed out a summary of your vote and was slid in a box to be used to audit the vote totals *if* needed. This new system is overly complicated and wasteful of paper with an entire 8x11 sheet of paper being output for each voter. The scanner seems be a step that wasn't needed either. But it's better than what we had before.
 
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