ATLANTA — Georgia voters are showing up at the polls, but lawmakers are looking ahead and will decide what kind of new voting machines they’ll be using during the presidential election two years from now.
Channel 2’s Richard Elliot says one may be more familiar than you think.
Seven voting machine vendors have pitched their machines so far.
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One of those is called Liberty Vote, a company that acquired Dominion Voting, so they have the current contract with the state.
And they insist that may be a very good thing.
Representatives from Liberty Vote and Knowink showed members of a joint committee their new voting system, so did a company called Voting Works.
The committee, made up of lawmakers and election supervisors, will compile all the information and make a recommendation to the full General Assembly, but they have to do it all fast.
Whichever system they recommend and pick will have to be in place by November 2028.
”But at the end of the day, we’re learning what the potential is and what the technology can do and now it can serve Georgia,” State Sen. Max Burns, R-Sylvania, said.
But Liberty Vote machines are already serving Georgia.
Liberty Vote acquired Dominion Voting, so it currently holds the voting machine contract with the state.
Their representatives told the committee that given the accelerated timeline to get these machines ready, it could do it better than any of the others since it’s already here.
But Dominion also faced an avalanche of criticism after the 2020 presidential election, even though every single federal and state investigation showed there was no voter fraud.
“We certainly have versions of a former system, and this is the next generation,” Burns said. “We may choose to say, ‘Hey, we need to keep pieces of it,’ or we may choose to say maybe we should consider changing things. But at the end of the day, we need to learn what each vendor as to offer Georgia.”
There will be one maybe two more meetings before the committee will make its recommendations.
The House and Senate has to see, hold hearings, vote, then it goes to the governor, then through procurement, then out to the counties and training for poll workers and voters.
This rollout will take a long time, and there’s not a lot of time left.
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