Georgia’s State Election Board has formally asked the Justice Department to prohibit the use of the state’s QR-code-based voting machines before the 2026 midterms and to set a six-month deadline for replacing them.
In a September 30 letter to Attorney General Todd Blanche, State Election Board Executive Director James Mills requested that the DOJ bar “unreadable, unverifiable QR-code-based vote tabulation” and any electronic method that does not allow voters to verify the votes that are actually counted. The letter was also sent to Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon and Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin.
The request follows a 3-2 board resolution passed on September 28 directing Mills to seek federal intervention regarding Georgia’s Dominion Democracy Suite 5.5-A system (now branded Liberty Vote).
Mills also asked the DOJ to investigate Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger’s office over allegations that it withheld, blocked review of, or altered election records and shared motor-vehicle and voter-registration data with private vendors. He further requested a court-backed order for forensic backups of election servers and scanners, followed by installation of a later EAC-certified software version with independent verification that known vulnerabilities have been fixed.
Under the current system, voters make selections on a touchscreen that prints a human-readable summary, but the actual votes counted are encoded in a QR code that voters cannot read. Scanners tabulate the QR code, not the printed text. Mills argues this violates the Help America Vote Act and Georgia state law. Early voting begins October 13.
