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Activist Revives QR Fears, Demands Georgia Machine Removal

5/13/2026

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Garland Favorito, a longtime election-denial activist, revived QR-code fears to push removal of Georgia voting machines.
Georgia lawmakers have not approved a replacement system for the banned QR codes on ballots six months before the midterm elections.
Critics, including computer scientists, argue that because humans cannot read the QR code on the $107 million 2019 Dominion touchscreen voting machines, voters cannot verify that the encoded data matches the printed ballot.

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Garland Favorito, a longtime election-denial activist, revived QR-code fears to push removal of Georgia voting machines.
Georgia lawmakers have not approved a replacement system for the banned QR codes on ballots six months before the midterm elections.
Critics, including computer scientists, argue that because humans cannot read the QR code on the $107 million 2019 Dominion touchscreen voting machines, voters cannot verify that the encoded data matches the printed ballot.