Groups file lawsuit challenging Georgia electronic voting

<p>Just days before Georgia's primary elections, a coalition of groups opposed to the state's electronic voting machines filed a lawsuit challenging the system.</p><p>The legal challenge, filed Thursday in Fulton County Superior Court, claims the system is illegal and unconstitutional because it fails to give voters a verifiable record showing their ballot was recorded correctly.</p><p>Georgia implemented the new system in 2002.</p><p>"If I had some evil intent and I wanted to disenfranchise an entire state, what better job could I do than what happened in 2002?" said Garland Favorito, a plaintiff in the suit and co-founder of VoterGA, the coalition that filed the lawsuit.</p><p>The group is not seeking to halt Tuesday's election and says the suit was not timed to embarrass Secretary of State Cathy Cox.</p><p>Cox spearheaded the implementation of the system and is seeking the Democratic nomination for governor.</p>

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