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Public commenters and board members urge caution on QR-code ballot deadline and raise security concerns
Summary
Multiple public commenters and board members urged the DeKalb Board of Registration and Elections to seek a delay to the QR-code removal deadline and flagged security and intimidation concerns; commenters cited bills including SB 189 and alleged vulnerabilities in voting systems.
Several public commenters at the Feb. 12 DeKalb County Board of Registration and Elections meeting urged the board to press the Georgia legislature for more time before removing QR codes from ballots and raised broader election-security and voter-intimidation concerns.
Janet Grant, an area poll manager, thanked the board for recent operational improvements but warned that an emergency implementation of hand-marked and hand-counted ballots this year "would have to be almost immediately scrapped" if the legislature proceeds on the current timeline. She told the board…
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