Georgia voting machines contract. Georgia likely to plow ahead with buying insecure voting machines. Georgia officials awarded a contract for 30000 new voting machines to dominion voting on monday scrapping the states 17 year old electronic voting equipment and replacing it with touchscreens. Georgia secretary of state brad raffensperger announced monday that his office is awarding a 107 million contract to election technology vendor dominion voting systems to replace the states voting machines ahead of the 2020 presidential election with new equipment that produces paper records of ballots.
The colorado based company will supply the state with 30000 touchscreen voting machines capable of printing paper ballots. As georgia elections officials prepared to roll out an over 100 million high tech voting system last year good government groups a federal judge and election security experts warned of its perils. Georgia awards 107m voting machine contract to dominion.
Together ess and dominion by 2017 controlled more than 80 percent of the us election market. Before georgia voters used the states electronic voting machines for the first time in 2002 the general assembly changed a state law requiring an independent audit trail of each vote cast. Ess nevertheless retained a number of des servicing and maintenance contracts including the one for voting machines in shelby county as well as for the state of georgia until last year when georgia bought new bmds from dominion.
In early october 2019 reports began circulating that president trumps eldest daughter ivanka had secured trademarks for voting machines among other products in china.