ATLANTA (AP) — A day after postponing plans to redraw Georgia’s congressional and legislative districts, state lawmakers were poised Thursday to delay making any changes to the state’s current vote-counting method.That would mean the system, which relies on a QR code to tally the votes, will remain in place for the November election, an outcome some voting rights advocates preferred to avoid creating confusion at polling sites.Georgia’s governor, Republican Brian Kemp, had placed redistricting and the state’s election system on the agenda for a special legislative session. On Wednesday — the first day of the session — lawmakers rejected his call for redistricting for the 2028 election, citing concerns about moving too quickly after a U.S. Supreme Court decision weakened federal Voting Rights Act protections for minority voters.On Thursday, they advanced legislation that would postpone a looming deadline to change the election system used throughout the political battleground state.
That system relies on a QR code printed on ballots to tally the votes. It has drawn the ire of President Donald Trump, who claimed without evidence that voting machines in Georgia deleted or switched votes in the 2020 election. Trump narrowly lost the state to Democrat Joe Biden that year.
