[EL] First Lawsuit Filed in Georgia Claiming New BMD Machines Violate State Constitutional Right to a Secret Ballot

[D. A. Holtzman]

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On 2/25/2020 8:50 AM, Rick Hasen wrote:
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>     First Lawsuit Filed in Georgia Claiming New BMD Machines Violate
>     State Constitutional Right to a Secret Ballot
>     <https://electionlawblog.org/?p=109700>
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> Posted on February 24, 2020 4:18 pm 
> <https://electionlawblog.org/?p=109700>by *Rick Hasen* 
> <https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
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> AP: <https://apnews.com/5f47670cd44804451ec47c6686aa0827>
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> /Election integrity activists are raising concerns about Georgia’s new 
> voting machines, saying the large, bright, vertical touchscreens allow 
> other people in the room to see a voter’s selections in violation of 
> ballot secrecy provisions in state law./
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> /In a petition filed Monday in Sumter County Superior Court against 
> the five members of the county election board, the activists ask the 
> court to order the board to have voters use hand-marked paper ballots 
> rather than the touchscreen voting machines. They’ve asked for an 
> emergency hearing./
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> /The need for such an order is urgent, the petition says, because 
> Sumter County is part of a state Senate district in which the runoff 
> for a special election is set for March 3 and early voting in that 
> contest began Monday. A clear violation of voters’ constitutional 
> right to a secret ballot could create “a substantial risk that the 
> results of this special election will be declared null and void,” the 
> petition says./
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