Dominion Voting Systems Corporation is a company that sells electronic voting hardware and software, including voting machines and tabulators, in the U.S. and Canada.[1] The company's international headquarters are in Toronto, Canada, and its U.S. headquarters are in Denver, Colorado. As of September 2019, Dominion voting machines are used in 2,000 jurisdictions in 33 U.S. states and Puerto Rico.[citation needed] The company also has over 100 municipal customers in Canada and clients in other countries. The company carries out in-house software development for its customers in the U.S., Canada and Serbia.[2]

Company

A Dominion ImageCast precinct-count optical-scan voting machine, mounted on a collapsible ballot box made by ElectionSource.

Dominion was founded in 2002 in Toronto, Canada, by John Poulos and James Hoover. [3]

Acquisitions

In May 2010, Dominion acquired Premier Election Solutions (formerly Diebold Election Systems) from Election Systems & Software (ES&S). ES&S had just acquired PES from Diebold and was required to sell off PES by the United States Department of Justice for anti-trust concerns.[4]

In June 2010, Dominion acquired Sequoia Voting Systems.[5]

United States

Dominion is the second largest seller of voting machines in the United States.[6] In 2016 its machines served 70 million voters in 1,600 jurisdictions.[7][8] In 2019, the state of Georgia selected Dominion Voting Systems to provide its new statewide voting system for 2020 and beyond.[9]

Canada

Dominion Voting Systems is Canada’s largest election system provider, with deployments nationwide. Currently, Dominion provides optical scan paper ballot tabulation systems for provincial elections, including Ontario and New Brunswick. Dominion also provides ballot tabulation and voting systems for Canada's major party leadership elections, including the Liberal Party of Canada, the Conservative Party of Canada, and the PC Party of Ontario.[10][11][12]

Ontario was the first Canadian province to use Dominion's tabulator machines in the 2006 elections.[13] New Brunswick used Dominion's 763 tabulator machines in the 2014 provincial elections.[14] There were some problems with the reporting of tabulator counts after the election, and at 10:45 p.m Elections New Brunswick officially suspended the results reporting count with 17 ridings still undeclared.[15] The Progressive Conservatives and the People's Alliance of New Brunswick called for a hand count of all ballots. Recounts were held in 7 of 49 ridings and the results were upheld with variations of no more than 1 vote per candidate per riding.[16] This delay in results reporting was caused by an off-the-shelf software application unrelated to Dominion.[17]

In June 2018, Elections Ontario used Dominion's tabulator machines for the provincial election and deployed them at 50 percent of polling stations.[18][19]

Officers

Poulos, President and CEO of Dominion, has a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Toronto and an MBA from INSEAD, in Fontainebleau, France.[20] Hoover (Vice President) has an MS in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Alberta.[21]

https://sos.ga.gov/securevoting/

Elections Security is Our Top Priority

Security-Focused Tech Company, Dominion Voting to Implement New Verified Paper Ballot System

(ATLANTA) – After a competitive selection process, the Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger selects Dominion Voting Systems to implement its new verified paper ballot system. Implementation of the new secure voting system will start immediately and be in place and fully operational for the March 24, 2020 Presidential Preference Primary.

“Elections security is my top priority,” said Raffensperger. “We look forward to working with national and local elections security experts to institute best practices and continue to safeguard all aspects of physical and cyber-security in an ever-changing threat environment.”

The Georgia Secretary of State's office has already partnered with the Department of Homeland Security and private cyber-security companies to provide network monitoring, cyber-hygiene scanning, and cyber-security assessments. Many Georgia counties have also partnered with DHS to provide physical security assessments of their election offices.

“We are honored to partner with the State of Georgia to deliver a best-in-class system that is fully adaptable to state needs,” said Dominion CEO John Poulous. “Election officials and voters alike can be assured they are using the most modern, accessible and security-focused system on the market today, with paper ballots for every vote cast to ease auditing and ensure confidence in results.”

“As Election Director my job is to make sure every voter has a positive experience,” said Rockdale County Elections Supervisor, Cynthia Willingham. “We are grateful to the Secretary of State for the new system and will ensure every voter is able to efficiently and accurately cast their ballot.”

If you need assistance, please contact the Press Office: SosContact@sos.ga.gov.

https://www.eac.gov/voting-equipment/registered-manufacturers/dominion-voting-systems-corp

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https://www.sos.texas.gov/elections/forms/sysexam/oct2019-sneeringer.pdf

https://verifiedvoting.org/election-system/dominion-imagecast-central/

https://www.sos.state.tx.us/elections/forms/sysexam/dominion-democracy-suite-5.5.pdf

https://www.bloomberg.com/profile/company/3614901Z:CN

https://www.dominionvoting.com/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominion_Voting_Systems

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/11/04/georgia-election-machine-glitch-434065

https://www.michigan.gov/sos/0,4670,7-127-1633_8716_45458_82066—,00.html

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https://www.smcacre.org/dominion-democracy-suite-voting-system

https://archive.is/Xww2c

Georgia Havoc Raises New Doubts on Pricey Voting Machines

As Georgia elections officials prepared to roll out an over $100 million high-tech voting system last year, good-government groups, a federal judge and election-security experts warned of its perils. The new system, they argued, was too convoluted, too expensive, too big — and was still insecure.

They said the state would regret purchasing the machines. On Tuesday, that admonition appeared prescient.

A cascade of problems caused block-long lines across Georgia, as primary voters stood for hours while poll workers waited for equipment to be delivered or struggled to activate the system’s components. Locations ran out of provisional ballots. Many people, seeing no possible option to exercise their right to vote, simply left the lines.

With partisans on both sides hurling blame for the meltdown, elections experts said there were too many moving parts to place the onus for Georgia’s election chaos on any single one.

“The problem seems to have been a perfect storm (overused metaphor, but apt here) of new equipment, hasty training and a crush of tasks associated with both getting the mail ballots out the door and processed AND with running an in-person voting operation,” Charles Stewart III, a political scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, wrote in an email.

Even so, in an election year in which the coronavirus pandemic and an extremely polarized political arena are testing the very act of voting as perhaps never before, all of those factors coalesced in a voting system — essentially a series of interlocking digital devices — that some experts have described as dizzying in its complexity.

Warnings, and problems, notwithstanding, a number of jurisdictions have recently embraced such systems, drawn by the allure of an expensive shiny new toy.

In Georgia, the system’s purchase was authorized by the State Legislature in 2019 amid heavy lobbying by several vendors, including the winning bidder, Dominion Voting Systems, a Colorado-based company that is one of the nation’s largest suppliers of election systems. Georgia had been under pressure to replace its older election machines since 2017, even before widespread claims of voter suppression emerged in the 2018 governor’s race.

Criticisms of the systems are not unique to Dominion’s, but are aimed at the entire class of touch-screen systems known as “new generation ballot-marking devices,” which are produced by several vendors.

In some cases on Tuesday, the new machines required too much extra power for aging polling locations, blowing fuses and never powering on. In others, workers who were still being trained just days before the election struggled with setup. Some polling places never even received the machines until the morning of the election.

Jonathan Banes, who served as a precinct captain at Cross Keys High School in suburban DeKalb County, outside Atlanta, said the voting machines failed to work as workers tried to boot them up beginning at 5:30 a.m. Poll workers ultimately had to call in a technician to fix them.

“I still don’t know what it was, whether it was the PIN authorization, the physical card itself which is inserted into the machine to access the admin portal to manage the functions of the device, or what,” Mr. Banes said. The technician who came to the school fixed the problem but never explained what the problem was, he said.

Mr. Banes, who is 29, was operating with only four poll workers but should have had a dozen — many of the older workers feared contracting Covid-19 — and only two of those who came had been trained, he said.

The training in February “was more of an introductory course, if you can call it that,” he said. “We didn’t go into troubleshoot scenarios or how to deal with technical issues like this or have scenarios where voters cast ballots.” An online refresher training was held several weeks ago, he said.

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The electronic poll books, also new, were plagued by freezing software and user error.

Kay Stimson, the director of government relations for Dominion, said the company would be doing a “deep dive” into what happened, but maintained that the issues did not involve equipment problems on a large scale.

Ms. Stimson said the company had to replace only 20 components for about 30,000 machines. “That’s a very low number for a statewide voting system rollout across 159 counties,” she said.

Many of the problems, she said, involved difficulties activating voter verification cards — which are inserted into the machines to start voting.

The potential for problems with the new system was somewhat well known from the state’s small-scale test in the 2019 elections, when a software glitch in the electronic poll books caused delays in most of the six counties where the test took place.

“A lot of people saw this coming, this meltdown, months in advance,” said Andrew Appel, a computer scientist at Princeton who studies voting machines.

Calling it “way too complex,” Marilyn Marks, the executive director of the Coalition for Good Governance, which had argued for a slower rollout of the equipment, described the technology as a “Rube Goldberg contraption with way more components than are needed.”

The promise of the new system, in part, was that it would be able to provide a variety of customized options — ballots in different languages, audio ballots for the visually impaired and the like. Yet it has not only proved hard to use in the early going; it is also something of a long and winding digital road to the same end as the old hand-marking systems — a marked ballot fed into a scanner.

In the new systems, voters begin the process by checking in at an electronic poll book, maintained on a digital tablet. There, the voter verification card with a microchip in it is programmed with the voter’s information. The card is then brought over to a big touch-screen tablet and inserted into a reader to display the voter’s ballot. After making the selections on the touch screen, the voter clicks “print ballot.” Then the paper receipt is brought over to the digital scanner, where the voter drops it off.

“There are a lot more things that can go wrong,” Dr. Appel said. “Even if you’re computer savvy, think of how many devices are involved.”

A federal judge presiding over 2017 litigation about Georgia’s voting machines, Amy Totenberg, had ruled that the state’s old system was grossly outdated. But last August she expressed concern that the state would not be able to put the new system in place this year, calling it a “mammoth undertaking.”

Among groups that warned against the new system were the right-leaning good government group FreedomWorks and the bipartisan National Election Defense Coalition.

In a joint letter to Georgia lawmakers in December 2018, the organizations predicted long lines at polling places, saying the systems “amount to nothing more than a boondoggle for the vendors and an enormous waste of taxpayers’ dollars.”

Not only is the system more complex than those using hand-marked ballots, it costs far more.

Some experts point to benefits in the systems.

“I’m not against hand-marked paper ballots, but I think one of the things that’s missing from this conversation is that there are very valid reasons to come down on the side of ballot-marking devices,” said David Becker, the executive director of the Center for Election Innovation and Research, a nonprofit in Washington. He pointed to their usefulness for people with disabilities — the machines can play audio of the voting choices for visually impaired voters, for example.

The machines can also tailor ballots on the touch screens for voters from various precincts, negating the need for printing multiple ballots for local elections.

In comments this week, Georgia’s secretary of state, Brad Raffensperger, whose office was in charge of the procurement, blamed poor preparation at the county level for most of the problems.

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Dominion Voting Systems is considered one of the “big three” in election equipment manufacturing. The company makes a range of devices that are used in states and counties around the country.

Dominion’s Democracy 5.5 system, the one used in Georgia, was approved by the National Elections Assistance Commission in 2018. The next year, it failed certification in Texas.

While some Democrats in the Georgia Legislature had opposed the purchase of this type of system, there is some evidence that heavy lobbying and sales tactics have played a role in their adoption in Georgia and elsewhere.

“The companies are pushing these because they make more money on them,” Dr. Appel said.

Georgia records list eight registered lobbyists for Dominion.

One of them is Lewis Abit Massey, a former Georgia secretary of state who once ran for governor. Another, Jared Thomas, once served as chief of staff for Brian Kemp, the current governor.

Ms. Stimson denied that her company’s marketing was overly aggressive, adding that it had hired lobbyists in Georgia to ensure a fair process. “Our marketing budget is quite low,” she said.

Another major vendor that competed for the contract was Election Systems & Software, the biggest of the election equipment companies. It employed so many Georgia power brokers that the connections merited a graphic on a site operated by Fair Fight, the voting rights organization formed by Stacey Abrams, who narrowly lost the 2018 election for governor.

The “ballot marking” systems in other states have caused problems in elections for the past few years, often from a combination of user error, lack of training, infrastructure challenges and the occasional software issue.

Multiple counties in Pennsylvania, including Philadelphia, rolled out a similar machine in the 2019 off-year elections. Called the ExpressVote XL, it was manufactured by Election Systems & Software.

The initial rollout in 2019 proved problematic. In Northhampton County, an election for a local judge returned faulty results, with the Democratic candidate receiving just 164 votes out of 55,000 ballots. Voters also complained of extremely glitchy touch screens.

An investigation by the county found that the errors “were the result of a human error in formatting the ballot,” and that the touch-screen issues were because “some machines had been configured improperly at the factory prior to delivery to Northampton County.”

In Philadelphia, election officials reported performance issues with machines in more than 40 percent of locations in 2019, according to a report by Reuters.

Katina Granger, a spokeswoman for Election Systems & Software, pointed to the successful 2019 election in Delaware using the company’s ExpressVote XL technology and denied there had been widespread problems in Pennsylvania.

Georgia’s decision to adopt the technology in 2019 and roll it out this year was such a bold plan that it warranted a write-up in November in the trade journal Government Technology, which said the “swift transition had raised eyebrows.” The publication quoted a Colorado elections official who marveled at the state’s speed in adopting the new system.

Like Princeton’s Dr. Appel, Duncan Buell, a professor of computer science at the University of South Carolina, argued for the hand-marked ballots.

“If you look at this as a system analysis problem, all of this argues that you want the system to be as simple as possible,” Dr. Buell said. “Things are going to go wrong.”

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https://www.govtech.com/security/Georgia-Hopes-New-Voting-System-Will-Protect-2020-Elections.html

Georgia Hopes New Voting System Will Protect 2020 Elections

(TNS) — With a presidential election on the line in 2020, Georgia is switching to a new voting company, Dominion Voting Systems, that state evaluators ranked second-best and that critics said will leave elections vulnerable.

Dominion, based in Denver, must rush to install 30,000 voting machines for 7 million Georgia voters before the March 24 presidential primary, the largest rollout of elections equipment in U.S. history. Most voters in Tuesday’s local elections will cast ballots on Georgia’s 17-year-old machines, and voters in six counties are testing Dominion’s machines.

The company faces intense scrutiny in Georgia, one of the most competitive states in the nation entering an election year featuring President Donald Trump and two U.S. Senate seats on the ballot. The challenge for Dominion is to seamlessly introduce computer-printed paper ballots in a state criticized last year over allegations of vote flipping, missing voter registrations, precinct closures, long lines and voter purges.

The swift transition to new voting equipment has raised eyebrows far from Georgia.

“What Georgia is trying to do basically blows my mind,” said Dwight Shellman, an election official at the Colorado secretary of state’s office. His state adopted a Dominion system in 2016.

“We had 2 1/2 years to do it, and it was challenging,” Shellman said. “I can’t imagine implementing the number of counties Georgia has in, what, two months? Three months?”

Actually, the work will take eight months. But the challenge remains daunting.

Jeanne Dufort, a voter in Madison who advocates for hand-marked paper ballots in elections, said she’s worried the state will “take shortcuts” to get the new election system installed in time for the presidential primary. If the company falls short, every voter in the state will have to fill out paper ballots by hand, according to a federal judge’s order in August.

“The general way you deliver more than you’ve ever been asked to, in a short time frame, is you cut corners,” said Dufort, a real estate agent who previously worked in supply-chain management. “The last thing I want to do is predict failure, but what I want to predict is a logistics challenge they aren’t prepared for and a timeline that’s short.”

Dominion, the second-largest voting company in the country, says it’s up to the job.

“It is an ambitious timetable, and it will require a great deal of coordination, but we have worked very closely with the state and county officials in order to make it go smoothly,” said Kay Stimson, a spokeswoman for Dominion who previously managed communications for the National Association of Secretaries of State. “Not only do we have the experience in doing an implementation of this scale, we are perhaps one of the only companies that could have carried it off effectively.”

But while the company operates in thousands of precincts nationwide, from California to New York, it has never installed so much equipment at once and on such a tight schedule.

How we got the story

Georgia awarded a $107 million contract to Dominion Voting Systems this summer, setting off a quick transition to a new statewide voting system in time for the March 24 presidential primary.

To evaluate the company, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution scrutinized procurement documents, election certification records, lobbyist filings and corporate ownership information to report on Dominion's history. We also reported on other areas' experience with Dominion's voting equipment, including Colorado, Texas and Cook County, Ill.

Elections scorecard

Dominion won Georgia’s $107 million elections contract this summer because it was the lowest bidder — not the best, according to score sheets from six state evaluators. The nation’s largest elections company and the state’s existing provider, Election Systems & Software, received the highest technical score but lost the contract because of its $143 million price tag.

The evaluators, who judged voting companies on 100 criteria, were concerned that Dominion initially said it couldn’t deliver its equipment before the end of March, according to evaluation documents. They also said that while Dominion had demonstrated its experience in other states, none of the other states had as many voters as Georgia.

Dominion later adjusted its schedule to meet the state’s deadlines. The company has delivered more than 10,000 voting machines so far, and implementation is on schedule, according to the secretary of state’s office. Dominion must install voting machines, printers and ballot scanners, then test them and train poll workers, all before Election Day.

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Dominion cites its experience in other parts of the country, saying it’s prepared to handle Georgia’s elections.

In Colorado, where 95% of voters cast ballots by mail, election officials rolled out Dominion’s in-person voting system to more than 50 counties over two years. There were some initial hiccups — for example, the limited size of a Dominion database delayed the counting of ballots in one county in 2016.

But Shellman said Dominion has worked with the state to improve the voting system.

“There are always places for improvement. We keep working on that, year after year,” Shellman said. “This year, I feel Dominion just knocked it out of the park.”

Cook County, Ill., tested its new Dominion Voting system in 147 precincts in April. Like Georgia, Cook County plans to roll out the new system to all of its 1,599 precincts in the Chicago area for its presidential primary in March.

Deputy Clerk of Elections Edmund Michalowski said voters liked the new system, and the test went smoothly. He said Dominion has been responsive.

“It’s still a daunting task to move from 147 (precincts) to 1,600, but it’s been a good transition,” Michalowski said.

By comparison, Georgia plans to install Dominion’s equipment in 2,660 precincts statewide.

Other jurisdictions recently decided not to use Dominion’s system.

In June, South Carolina chose Election Systems & Software over Dominion. Some evaluators said the company lacked experience with statewide elections.

Texas also considered a Dominion voting system this year. But when the company demonstrated the system, it did not go well.

State evaluators witnessed numerous hardware and software problems. For example, when a ballot printer tray was ajar during voting, it wiped out the voter’s ballot selections, requiring the voter to start again.

Among the other problems noted: A ballot scanner jammed several times. And the tablet computers that voters used to cast their ballots failed under certain circumstances, and it took 10 to 20 minutes to restore them.

The evaluators also said company employees demonstrating the product seemed unprepared.

“I would expect that for a certification exam, Dominion would be very motivated to make sure everything went according to plan,” one evaluator wrote. “I have serious concerns regarding the level of training Dominion personnel are receiving that make me question the quality of support jurisdictions would receive once a sale is made.”

In June, Texas declined to certify Dominion’s system.

A statewide concern

Dominion’s voting machinery is widely used in California, Colorado, Michigan and New York, among other states.

It’s one of a few companies that could take on Georgia’s statewide voting system, simply because there aren’t many election companies in the market.

Election equipment in the United States is dominated by Dominion, ES&S and Hart InterCivic as the elections industry has consolidated in recent years. Dominion covered 37% of eligible voters in the country, according to “The Business of Voting,” a 2016 report by the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

Founded in 2003 in Toronto, Dominion is privately owned by its management team and a New York-based private equity firm called Staple Street Capital Management, which also owns Six Flags Entertainment, a self-storage company, an after-market electronic equipment company and an essential oils manufacturer.

Dominion cited its connections to Georgia when it bid on the state’s contract. The company’s regional sales manager is Barry Herron, who led the implementation of the existing voting system in Georgia in 2002.

In addition, campaign finance records show that Dominion employed prominent lobbyists during this year’s legislative session, which set the parameters for the state’s voting machine contract and budgeted $150 million for the job.

Dominion’s 10 lobbyists include former Secretary of State Lewis Massey and Jared Thomas, a former campaign manager and elections staffer for Gov. Brian Kemp when he was secretary of state. When reached by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Massey referred questions to Dominion.

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Other voting companies also sent lobbyists to the Georgia Capitol, including six for Election Systems & Software and three for Hart InterCivic.

The goal of Dominion’s lobbyists was to seek an “open and fair procurement process,” Stimson said.

“The state did a very good job of maintaining its neutrality and transparency,” Stimson said. “We would say that our efforts were successful.”

Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger instituted a policy that his office staff wouldn’t have contact with any election vendor’s lobbyists, and he didn’t take campaign contributions from them, spokesman Walter Jones said. In addition, the state’s contract evaluators weren’t known to lobbyists.

Raffensperger received a $2,500 contribution from Courtney Leiendecker, the wife of Scott Leiendecker, the managing director for KnowInk, a Dominion subcontractor that’s providing the state’s voter check-in computers. That contribution came Nov. 26, when Raffensperger was in a runoff for secretary of state.

Dominion won Georgia’s voting contract because the company guaranteed a fair, accurate and verifiable election process, Jones said.

“The evaluation committee concluded that Dominion satisfied the state’s technical requirements, and its selection also represented the best value for Georgia,” Jones said. “Dominion received high scores for implementation and training, which was a consideration in assuring the system will be in place for the March 24 primary.”

A new way of voting

Election integrity advocates increasingly demanded paper ballots after the 2016 presidential election because of fear of Russian interference, and companies promoted new voting equipment that combined touchscreens with printed-out paper ballots, like the kind that will be used in Georgia, said Matthew Caulfield, a co-author of the University of Pennsylvania report on the voting industry.

Voters will make their choices on the touchscreens, called ballot-marking devices, which are attached to printers that produce a ballot. Voters can then review their choices on their ballots before inserting them into scanning machines for tabulation.

“Ballot-marking devices are now sort of a standard,” Caulfield said. “If you want to produce a paper record, a typical mode of doing that is with a ballot-marking device.”

An ongoing federal lawsuit argues that ballot-marking devices could be tampered with or fail to produce accurate results.

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The lawsuit is asking a judge to order Georgia to use hand-marked paper ballots, arguing that they more directly reflect voters’ intent. In addition, the new voting machines will scan unreadable bar codes instead of the printed-out text of voters’ choices, leading to concerns that voters won’t be able to tell whether their ballot is counted correctly.

Andrew Appel, an election security expert at Princeton University, said Georgia currently “has the least-secure voting machines now of any state” and is right to replace them.

But he said the touchscreen ballot-marking devices and optical scanners of the new system are easily hackable. And the system relies on voters to check their own paper ballots, when research shows they do a poor job of it.

The ideal solution, Appel said: hand-marked paper ballots that voters scan into an optical reader — a system adopted by some 40 states. Though the scanners are still hackable, he said a sample of the original paper ballots can and should be audited.

“Georgia is buying a solution that’s more expensive than the other solution,” Appel said. “But the main point is, it’s less secure than the other solution.”

Hand-marked paper ballots would likely cost less than the ballot-marking device system purchased in Georgia. For example, in Pennsylvania, counties that exclusively bought ballot-marking devices spent nearly twice as much per voter than counties that primarily rely on hand-marked paper ballots, according to a report this summer by the University of Pittsburgh Institute for Cyber Law, Policy, and Security.

Dominion maintains that its voting system is secure, and that computer-aided voting reduces errors while accommodating voters with disabilities.

“Security is one aspect of the equation, but federal and state law equally recognize privacy, accessibility and usability,” Stimson said. “We have to make sure that anything that increases or enhances security doesn’t reduce accessibility or privacy.”

During the 2016 election, about 70% of voters in the United States used equipment that produced some sort of paper record, such as paper ballots bubbled in by hand or printed by computer, according to Verified Voting, a national election integrity organization. By 2020, about 87% of voters — including Georgians — will have some form of paper ballot.

Now that Georgia has selected Dominion, many areas across Georgia, such as Fulton County, are anxious to receive their new voting machines, Fulton Elections Director Richard Barron said.

Poll worker training and equipment testing can’t be done until then. In addition, the State Election Board hasn’t yet approved rules and procedures for how to conduct elections with the new voting machines.

Voting machines likely won’t arrive until after this fall’s local elections and potential runoffs, he said.

“The timeline is somewhat crunched, but we’ll get it done,” Barron said. “We may have to put in some long hours to make it happen.”