On Monday, Aug. 19, the Georgia State Election Board (SEB) — which has a majority of Republican members — will have a final opportunity to vote on a proposal to move the state to hand-marked ballots. It’s a proposal that a group of bipartisan activists say could save the state’s election from high risk and potentially avoid some of the issues that plagued the 2020 election.
Moving to paper ballots is the type of proposal that former President Donald Trump has expressed support for on numerous occasions, including at a recent Atlanta rally in which he said moving to “paper ballots” would be ideal. He reiterated his support for hand-marked ballots during an event on Thursday at his Bedminster golf club, where he said, “We should have one-day voting paper ballots.”
The Federalist inquired with the Trump campaign as to whether the former president supports this particular proposal in a state in which he narrowly lost a race that was fraught with irregularities and miscounts. We did not receive a response at the time of publication.
Georgia voters currently cast their vote on a touchscreen, which then prints out a paper summary that includes a QR code. But the system is vulnerable according to experts — and it’s a problem that Republican Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger has been aware of for at least three years.
Since the vulnerabilities have yet to be fixed — and won’t be until after the November election — a group of bipartisan activists have
