US District Judge Amy Totenberg issued a ruling last Friday that supports individuals seeking to replace Georgia’s electronic voting machines with hand-marked paper ballots.
The questionable machines were purchased from Dominion Voting Systems in 2019 and implemented in 2020. Following that year’s presidential election, there was much talk regarding the machines’ susceptibility to hacking and some people even claimed the machines helped President Joe Biden defeat former President Donald Trump.
Mike Lindell, CEO of MyPillow and a fierce supporter of election fraud claims, described Totenberg’s ruling as “historic.”
“[Evidence] does not suggest that the Plaintiffs are conspiracy theorists of any variety,” wrote Totenberg. “Indeed, some of the nation’s leading cybersecurity experts and computer scientists have provided testimony and affidavits on behalf of Plaintiff’s case in the long course of this litigation.”
One example is a report by University of Michigan computer science professor J. Alex Halderman, who explained how voting data could be manipulated any individual who gained access to the equipment. The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency confirmed the vulnerabilities outlined in Halderman’s report, but said it had found no proof that such vulnerabilities were ever exploited during an election.