I’m not going to lie, it’s impressive how this:
https://apnews.com/article/abd2949881514e42a50f2025595c9c2a
Has been twisted into a batsh*t conspiracy.
Although I think Georgia was apparently going to replace their old voting machines anyway (made by ES&S) because a lot of people had been howling about them for years, the Democratic Party of Georgia successfully got a court order last year that says that Georgia has to replace them before the 2020 election or they will be forced to use all paper ballots.
Let’s also note that in 2018, Kemp won a competitive governor race but received a lot of criticism because he was the SOS and didn’t step down during his campaign, and because of his purging of the voter rolls, right or wrong. There’s been something that has resurfaced about Georgia’s election servers possibly being hacked before 2016 and 2018 (with that also being twisted as this was with the old system).
So, in response to the aftermath of 2018, Kemp chooses to…step aside and let the Georgia Democrats get one up on him for 2018? Sorry, I smell BS.
But if that were the case, that’d be so impressive I’d just laugh.
ES&S had become toxic in Georgia, by the way. I don’t think there’s any way they go back to those machines. The next step if we decide that Dominion is also trash is likely all hand marked paper ballots in the future. Which I would 100% support, by the way. At the very least, they need to pass legislation that disconnects election machines from the internet, IMO.