ATLANTA - In the latest controversy over Georgia election law, a coalition of groups opposed to the state's electronic voting machines filed a lawsuit challenging the system on Thursday.
The legal challenge, filed in Fulton County Superior Court, claims the system is illegal and unconstitutional because it fails to give voters a verifiable record showing their ballot was recorded correctly. The state started using the machines in 2002.
"If I had some evil intent and I wanted to disenfranchise an entire state, what better job could I do than what happened in 2002?" said Garland Favorito, co-founder of VoterGA, the coalition that filed the lawsuit.
The group said it is not seeking to block Tuesday's primary election and says the suit was not timed to embarrass Secretary of State Cathy Cox, who spearheaded the new voting system and is seeking the Democratic nomination for governor.
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