An important aspect of the rules are procedures for maintaining the integrity of the touchscreen ballot-marking devises, known as BMDs. The rules require county poll managers to test each BMD before every election to ensure that voters’ selections will …

“I demonstrate that these vulnerabilities provide multiple routes by which attackers can install malicious software on Georgia’s BMDs, either with temporary physical access or remotely from election management systems (EMSs).”

MITRE NESL assesses that the manipulation of BMD audit log files requires physical access to a BMD, elevated access privileges, a mechanism to navigate to and open BMD operating system files, and knowledge of relevant ICX auditing information and log file locations.

The audit was the first ever conducted using Optical Character Recognition (OCR) of the human-readable text on summary ballots produced by ballot marking devices (BMD). It was the largest single ballot image audit ever conducted. It was the first tabulation audit in Georgia to audit the entire election-every contest on every ballot cast.

The guidelines supported by a 13 point list of Election Integrity Issues explain: “Georgia’s new Ballot Marking Device (BMD) voting system accumulates votes hidden in unverifiable bar codes. Recounts will rescan the encrypted bar codes and the vast majority of races will not be audited.

Mar 7, 2024 · An almost three-week bench trial concluded Feb. 1, and now the case awaits a ruling from U.S. Northern District of Georgia Judge Amy Totenberg. But to hack Georgia’s elections in person, one must bypass a host of security measures and a county’s elaborate chain of custody process.

Sep 30, 2019 · Both sets of plaintiffs in the case amended or supplemented their complaints to challenge Georgia’s planned 2020 implementation of an unverifiable BMD system that tabulates hidden votes embedded in bar codes.

Feb 27, 2020 · This election, all in-person voters in Georgia will use the state’s new electronic voting machines to cast their ballots. With early voting starting Monday in the state’s presidential primary, officials say to pack your patience and to allow for extra time to complete the process.

Jul 29, 2019 · Georgia has awarded a massive contract to replace its outdated touchscreen direct-recording electronic voting machines to a new company offering ballot-marking devices with a paper component.

Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger says Georgians should have faith in the newly-announced voting machines coming for next year’s elections. On Monday, Raffensperger announced the selection of Dominion Voting Systems as the state’s next voting machine vendor, with a $106 million price tag.