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Committee told Georgia must plan now for SB189 QR-code ban and possible move to hand-marked ballots
Summary
The panel and public urged the House committee to address how Georgia will comply with SB189the 2024 law that limits use of QR/barcode tabulationand to plan budgets and procurement so counties meet the mid-2026 technical deadline.
The committee heard repeated calls to plan for an upcoming statutory and technical deadline: Senate Bill 189 (2024) directs that human-readable marks must be the basis for tabulation and that QR codes or similar encodings cannot be relied on as the primary tabulation source after the statutory date specified in that law.
Why it matters: Several presenters told the committee that current voting equipment and the software that supports barcode/QR tabulation will require…
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