Georgia Election Administration

Georgia’s 2024 law set a July 1, 2026 deadline to remove machine‑printed barcodes from ballots, but the legislature provided no funding to implement the change, forcing officials to abandon impractical fixes (like hand‑counting in‑person ballots or single‑site early voting) and making it likely Dominion QR‑code tabulators will remain in use for the 2026 election. Dominion issued software patches after the Coffee County breach that were not funded for installation by Republican legislators, and a federal judge has blocked President Trump’s March 2025 executive order that would have largely banned barcodes.