Lawsuit over Georgia’s voting machines dismissed
ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) - The good news keeps on coming for Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger.
On Monday, President Donald Trump’s U.S. Department of Justice dismissed a lawsuit initiated under former President Joe Biden’s istration over the state’s election laws adopted in 2021.
Later Monday, Raffensperger’s office announced another lawsuit - one that began seven years ago over Georgia’s voting machines - has been dismissed.
One of the longest-running election lawsuits in Georgia history, Curling v. Raffensperger was filed in 2017 by individual voters and the Coalition for Good Governance (CGG). The lawsuit alleged the state’s electronic ballot marking devices cannot be counted on to reliably record voters, endangering the constitutional right to vote.
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“The ruling is just one more resounding vindication of Georgia’s elections,” Raffensperger said. “From day one, we knew these accusations were meritless. All the real-world evidence shows that Georgia’s paper ballot system works well. Our local election officials are professionals. And the voters of this state know that their votes are counted securely, accurately, and quickly.”
U.S. District Court Judge Amy Totenberg of the Northern District of Georgia dismissed the plaintiffs’ claims, ruling that the Coalition for Good Governance and other litigants failed to demonstrate any concrete, legal harm under Article III of the U.S. Constitution.
The court emphasized that plaintiffs do not even claim that Georgia’s system prevents their votes from being accurately counted and described their claims as “mere policy disagreements.”
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“We are deeply disappointed by the court’s ruling that the Plaintiffs lack standing to pursue our case,” said Marilyn Marks, CGG executive director. " We believe this is a serious misinterpretation of the law.
“The court did not reach the merits of the case, including the extensive evidence presented by many of the nation’s leading experts showing that Georgia’s touchscreen voting system is insecure and unsuitable for use in public elections,” Marks said.
“This decision effectively treats the right to vote as merely the right to cast a ballot, not the right to know what vote is being cast and counted,” she said. “That cannot be the law. A system where a voter has no way to know whether their ballot reflects their true selections is fundamentally incompatible with the constitutional right to vote.”
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