A Conspiracy Theory About QR Codes Has Led to Chaos Ahead of Georgia's Midterms

It was known before the current system was purchased or installed, that Georgia’s current touchscreen voting system is untrustworthy and insecure. That's not a conspiracy. But the legislature, in their infinite wisdom, decided to go with the machines for millions of dollars instead of handmarked paper ballots for hundreds of thousands of dollars. We tried hard to convince the powers that be of this fact but to no avail. So here we are in this ridiculous situation now. It's par for the course I guess.

Really, I think everywhere should be using paper ballots. Not because I’m a crackpot, but because a) it works – this is how federal and provincial elections in Canada have always been done – and b) it’s better than spending billions of dollars on machines to line the pockets of a hundred POS millionaires.