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January 13, 2019

Georgia Poised To Pick Vulnerable Barcode Voting Technology

By Joan Brunwasser

Meanwhile, Kemp’s new deputy chief of staff just happens to be a  lobbyist for ES&S, Georgia’s current voting machine vendor , which just happens to have a touchscreen barcode system that it wants to sell to the state of Georgia. These systems just happen to cost about  $70 million more than hand-marked paper ballots and scanners , while causing the many problems discussed above. And ES&S just happens to have d ...

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Is this the direction Georgia is heading with its elections?!
Is this the direction Georgia is heading with its elections?!
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Meanwhile, Kemp’s new deputy chief of staff just happens to be a  lobbyist for ES&S, Georgia’s current voting machine vendor , which just happens to have a touchscreen barcode system that it wants to sell to the state of Georgia. These systems just happen to cost about  $70 million more than hand-marked paper ballots and scanners , while causing the many problems discussed above. And ES&S just happens to have donated $30,000 to help elect Republicans to state office . This is every bit as terrible as it seems.



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Authors Bio:

Joan Brunwasser is a co-founder of Citizens for Election Reform (CER) which since 2005 existed for the sole purpose of raising the public awareness of the critical need for election reform. Our goal: to restore fair, accurate, transparent, secure elections where votes are cast in private and counted in public. Because the problems with electronic (computerized) voting systems include a lack of transparency and the ability to accurately check and authenticate the vote cast, these systems can alter election results and therefore are simply antithetical to democratic principles and functioning.



Since the pivotal 2004 Presidential election, Joan has come to see the connection between a broken election system, a dysfunctional, corporate media and a total lack of campaign finance reform. This has led her to enlarge the parameters of her writing to include interviews with whistle-blowers and articulate others who give a view quite different from that presented by the mainstream media. She also turns the spotlight on activists and ordinary folks who are striving to make a difference, to clean up and improve their corner of the world. By focusing on these intrepid individuals, she gives hope and inspiration to those who might otherwise be turned off and alienated. She also interviews people in the arts in all their variations - authors, journalists, filmmakers, actors, playwrights, and artists. Why? The bottom line: without art and inspiration, we lose one of the best parts of ourselves. And we're all in this together. If Joan can keep even one of her fellow citizens going another day, she considers her job well done.


When Joan hit one million page views, OEN Managing Editor, Meryl Ann Butler interviewed her, turning interviewer briefly into interviewee. Read the interview here.


While the news is often quite depressing, Joan nevertheless strives to maintain her mantra: "Grab life now in an exuberant embrace!"


Joan has been Election Integrity Editor for OpEdNews since December, 2005. Her articles also appear at Huffington Post, RepublicMedia.TV and Scoop.co.nz.

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