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Whether Georgia voters observed BMD vote-alteration issues in 2020

Determine whether any voters in Georgia observed Dominion Voting Systems ballot-marking devices (BMDs) altering printed votes during the 2020 U.S. Presidential election, given the absence of statewide procedures to log, investigate, or report such complaints.

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Background

The paper explains that Georgia required in-person voters to use Dominion ballot-marking devices and that no feasible testing regime can demonstrate that BMDs printed voter intent accurately. It further notes that Georgia lacked procedures to log, investigate, or report voter complaints about BMD misbehavior, creating a gap in evidence about whether problems were observed in practice.

Because audits cannot detect BMD printing errors when voters do not reliably verify printouts, the existence and frequency of any voter-observed BMD errors remains an unresolved factual question.

References

Georgia has no procedures to log, investigate, or report complaints from voters that BMDs altered votes, so it is unknown whether voters observed problems.

When Audits and Recounts Distract from Election Integrity: The 2020 U.S. Presidential Election in Georgia (2408.00055 - Stark, 31 Jul 2024) in Subsection “Things the audit did not check,” Section “The 2020 audit”