Peach Tree Times

Prof. Dan Wallach said the voting machines provided to Georgia for the 2020 election contained one significant change...they can properly be audited. 

Wallach, a computer science professor at Rice University, and a vocal critic of Georgia’s old voting machines, said those machines used would have raised eyebrows in the wake of such a narrow election. 

“Georgia has completely replaced its voting systems,” Wallach said in an email to Peach Tree Times.” The old ones had no paper, so the current Georgia audit / recount would not have been possible with those machines. In a sense, Georgia did this very much in the nick of time.”

Joe Biden was declared victor with a margin of only 12,670 votes. 

A fierce critic of the state’s previous system, Wallach has cooled. 

Wallach said the newer machines appeared to work effectively in Georgia’s recent audit. 

“I'd disagree with the statement that these machines cannot be properly audited,” Wallach said. “They just were, and the audit gives us solid confirmation that the original tabulation was correct and the proper winner of the election was confirmed.” 

The machines still have been questioned for not producing a better paper trail from ballots that is easily readable by a human, but by a computer through a QR barcode.