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Resident delivers extended public-comment critique of election systems and calls for paper ballots
Summary
A resident used the town hall public-comment period to allege security problems in recent elections, cite ongoing litigation, and urge adoption of hand-marked paper ballots and hand counting; county officials did not endorse or corroborate the claims.
During public comment, an attendee raised concerns about the security and administration of recent elections and urged the county to consider a return to hand-marked paper ballots.
The commenter (name not provided in the transcript) said there were problems in the 2024 and 2020 elections and asserted that "there is evidence in Fulton County that tens of thousands of invalid ballots were cashed in Fulton County," and that lawsuits and disciplinary actions remain unresolved. The commenter also criticized electronic voting systems, alleging that generic or easily found passwords exist in some Election Management Systems and that the machines run on outdated Microsoft software.
The commenter urged county officials to consider alternatives and said the Georgia secretary of state had proposed updating systems at a cost the commenter estimated at over $50,000,000. They recommended exploring demonstrations of hand-counting and said that prior local ballot measures showed public support for hand-marked paper ballots.
County staff did not respond with technical detail or affirm the assertions; the statements were delivered in the speaker's role as a public commenter and were not presented as findings by county officials.
