Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp is no longer the state’s chief election official — but his combative style in defending its insecure voting technology lives on
the watchdog group had “grave concerns” that Raffensperger “has not been honest with the public.”with Georgia Public Broadcasting, that there is “relatively little” difference between the real 10-year costs of barcode devices and paper ballots. He said he chose the former solution because county officials overwhelmingly preferred it.
“The process has gone from bad to worse in the transition from Kemp to Raffensperger,” said Marilyn Marks, executive director of the Coalition for Good Governance, an activist group that isGeorgia over vulnerabilities in its election system. “Raffensperger doesn’t even pretend to care about a better voting system, ethics, or fiscal responsibility.”
Raffensperger’s office has also followed Kemp’s practice of dismissing security concerns by citing the importance of state sovereignty.to FreedomWorks executive Jason Pye, who signed the Feb. 27 warning to state lawmakers, Deputy Secretary of State Jordan Fuchs described FreedomWorks as “a far-removed DC organization” and said Pye, who was born in Georgia and still lives there, did not “fully comprehend the climate of our state, the demands of our communities, or the objectives of this office.
Fuchs also told Pye that barcode devices were popular with Georgia election supervisors, who “understand better than anyone the day-to-day challenges of protecting, preserving, and promoting election integrity.” The message was reminiscent of rhetoric from Kemp and other conservative secretaries: The true voting security experts, they say, are the election workers on the ground, not some far-off ivory-tower academics.
Pye told POLITICO that he spoke with someone from Raffensperger’s office on Monday but declined to discuss their conversation. “As a lifelong Georgia resident,” he said, “I want to make sure my state gets this right.”
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