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Feb. 26, 2025

ATLANTA, Feb. 26, 2025 /Standard Newswire/ — Georgia Secretary of State (SOS) Brad Raffensperger has asked House and Senate Appropriations Subcommittees for $15 million to upgrade the Dominion Democracy Suite 5.5 voting system even though the upgrade will not make the system comply with Georgia law. Dominion’s Election Management System (EMS) upgrade was also shown to destroy existing election files on county EMS servers although those files must be retained for at least 22 months under federal and state statutes. [Mesa Co., forensics 1, 2, 3].

Raffensperger has continually refused calls for independent forensic analyses of county servers after vote count failures in 2020 and 2022 Georgia elections. He has now asked legislators to be complicit in the destruction of forensic evidence on those servers. The SOS told the committees the upgrade would “address any potential vulnerabilities” with the system after repeatedly claiming for years there were no vulnerabilities. VoterGA contends both claims are “patently false” in their letter to Appropriation Committee chairs listing 25 major security flaws that would remain unresolved after the upgrade.

At the same time, Raffensperger recommended legislators ignore spending $66 million to make the current system comply with a Georgia law they created! SB189 outlawed Dominion’s QR code vote accumulation system purchased in 2019 for $107 million despite being unverifiable to the voter. The law, passed last year, is effective July 1, 2026. A U.S. District Court already found in an August 2020 Curling v. Raffensperger order [pg 81-82] that the Dominion system violates two Georgia verifiability and human readability statutes. In April 2020, the Georgia Supreme Court confirmed in Rhoden v. Georgia that elections must comply with paper ballot laws that require all ballots must be marked by pen or pencil and hand counted in the precinct. Georgia’s voting system cannot comply with any of the related laws (O.C.G.A. § 21-2-2(7.1), O.C.G.A. § 21-2-300(a)(2), O.C.G.A § 21-2-379.23, O.C.G.A § 21-2-437).

VoterGA co-founder Garland Favorito explained the dilemma: “No amount of money can make this Dominion system secure. We are in a national election security crisis. Experts have identified dozens of unresolvable security issues and explained in court the Dominion system cannot be retrofitted for proper security. A simple, safe and cost-effective solution is for our State Election Board to implement a hand marked paper ballot system with publicly recorded hand counts consistent with President Trump’s recommendations to U.S. Governors. Governor Kemp’s current $47 million budget item covers it with millions in change leftover.”

VoterGA is a non-partisan, 501(c)3 registered non-profit organization created by a coalition of citizens working to restore election integrity in Georgia. We advocate for independently verifiable, auditable, recount capable, transparent and tamper proof elections.

SOURCE VoterGA

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