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Will New Voting Systems Be Ready for 2020's Early Presidential Contests?

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All of the issues that the DNC is facing with introducing remote voting in its nominating contests -- from security to usability to recount evidence to public confidence -- are also in play in states like Georgia, where it is going with printed ballot summary cards (including bar-coded) instead of hand-marked paper ballots.

But what sets the DNC apart from states like Georgia and North Carolina -- where career government officials run elections -- is the national and state parties are primarily political organizations, not information technology specialists, and they face the soonest deadlines to stand up new voting systems before the first presidential contests begin.

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