Georgia faces voting machine crisis as QR-code ban takes effect July 1 with no replacement system approved; Secretary of State candidates debate path forward

Claimant

Georgia state legislature (passed QR-code ban); Secretary of State candidates across party lines; Georgia counties (facing implementation deadline)

Source

Votebeat — Georgia voting machine deadline·Center

Notes

Georgia's QR-code voting system (Dominion/Liberty Vote equipment) will be illegal after July 1, 2026, but the legislature has not funded or mandated a replacement. Counties may be left without an election system for the November midterms. Republican candidates are relitigating 2020 and advocating hand-counted paper ballots; Democratic candidates favor hybrid machine-counting with paper verification. One Republican candidate (Metz) stated the 2020 election should not have been certified. Secretary of state primary is May 19.

Coverage Gap

None identified — broad local and national coverage across the spectrum

Documentation

STRONG

Georgia Public Broadcasting — candidate debate AJC — vote-counting problem Georgia Recorder — 2020 shadow over race