Georgia Lawmakers Delay Action on QR-Code Voting System After Shelving Redistricting Fight
The bill would keep Georgia’s QR-code vote tally in place for the November election while lawmakers seek a new system and funding.
- Georgia lawmakers advanced legislation on Thursday to postpone the July 1 deadline for banning QR-code voting machines, extending the transition until January 1, 2028.
- Legislators passed a law two years ago barring QR codes for official vote counts, yet lawmakers adjourned during the 2025 and 2026 sessions without appropriating the funds necessary to make the switch.
- The bill creates a committee to recommend "specifications, standards, and requirements" for a new voting system, with findings due by January 31, 2027.
- Governor Brian Kemp and House leadership agreed to the proposal, which passed out of two committees Thursday, with the full Senate scheduled to consider it on Saturday.
- House Minority Leader Carolyn Hugley called the QR code issue a "manufactured issue," saying Republicans must determine how to solve the problem they created.
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Voting machine changes postponed to 2028 under new GOP bill
Sen. Max Burns, a Sylvania Republican, introduced a bill aimed at addressing ballot QR codes in the Senate Ethics Committee on June 18, 2026. Maya Homan/Georgia RecorderGeorgia lawmakers have advanced a bill extending the deadline to remove QR codes from Georgia’s ballots to 2028, taking their first official step during the special session to rectify a problem that threatened to destabilize the state’s midterm elections. The bill passed out of t…
Georgia lawmakers delay action on QR-code voting system after shelving redistricting fight
A day after state lawmakers declined to redraw Georgia's congressional maps, legislators moved toward postponing another major election issue: replacing the QR code-based voting system used statewide.
The Seattle Times
Georgia’s QR codes for counting votes likely to remain for midterms as lawmakers delay action
Georgia lawmakers are poised to delay making any changes to the state’s current vote-counting method ahead of this year's midterm elections.
Clayton News
Lawmakers seek to delay QR code voting ban while adding property tax cuts for homeowners
ATLANTA — Georgia lawmakers advanced a bill on Thursday that would pause the mandatory voting machine changes they previously required for this year. The legislators, at the Capitol for the second day of a special session, also continued to line…
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Georgia's QR codes for counting votes likely to remain for midterms as lawmakers delay action
Georgia lawmakers are poised to delay making any changes to the state’s current vote-counting method ahead of this year's midterm elections.
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