Coalition for Good Governance

For Immediate Release

March 3, 2023

Curling Litigation Materials Amassed to Initiate Election Research Facility at Georgia Tech’s Cybersecurity School

ATLANTA--Unprecedented massive court filings recently published in Coalition for Good Governance's federal court case challenging Georgia’s touchscreen voting system have been designated as the foundational document collection for the Election Security Research Facility at Georgia Tech’s School of Cybersecurity and Privacy. The initial trove of documents was filed with the court by Coalition for Good Governance (“CGG”), its named member plaintiffs and co-plaintiffs, the Curling Plaintiffs, in recent responses to the state’s summary judgment motion. 

The documents represent a growing mountain of compelling scientific evidence and legal analysis demonstrating the inherent untrustworthy nature of Georgia’s voting system, and its elevated security risk, particularly after the 2021 statewide system breach. The case is expected to go to trial later this year, when plaintiffs seek to have the touchscreen ballot marking device system declared unconstitutional. The previous touchscreen system was banned in 2019 in the successful first phase of the Curling v. Raffensperger lawsuit. 

“Until now, most of these documents have not been readily available to the press, public, investigators, election officials, and cybersecurity researchers. Georgia Tech’s new facility to house these documents with expert users creating publicly available AI-based research tools for in-depth multi-disciplinary analysis is an exciting project that will greatly advance the nation’s knowledge of the security of voting systems and needed mitigations,” said Marilyn Marks, Executive Director of Coalition for Good Governance.  “The key takeaways from the filings we previously summarized give a glimpse of the scope of the materials and the important issues they address.

The credit for compilation and organization of the litigation documents and extensive informative Joint Statement of Additional Facts supporting the Curling brief and the CGG brief goes to David Cross and his powerful legal team, representing the Curling plaintiffs. The Morrison Foerster firm has generously supported this long running public interest lawsuit to secure the voting rights of all Georgia voters. CGG’s core team of attorneys Bruce Brown and Robert McGuire led CGG’s efforts in these filings, focusing on issues of voter privacy, pollbook accuracy and constitutional voting rights.” 

David Cross, Partner at Morrison Foerster, said “Voters need to have confidence that their votes count as cast, and that confidence must be grounded in facts, not fiction. The information compiled here should help researchers, policymakers, voters, and others discern fact from fiction about the security and reliability of electronic voting systems like that used in Georgia in today’s environment of advanced persistent threats to U.S. elections, both foreign and domestic. The information includes unprecedented, detailed analyses from leading election security experts of current electronic voting equipment used in various jurisdictions around the country. Those analyses reveal many serious deficiencies that could be exploited to alter votes and even election outcomes—deficiencies that remain unmitigated today.”

CGG is a strong advocate for transparency in all matters related to elections and election security, while also fiercely defending all voters’ rights to vote an absolutely secret ballot. Transparency is a fundamental element of democratic elections. Georgia Tech’s Election Security Research Facility advances the cause of transparency and democratic values in the nation’s elections. 

Coalition for Good Governance is a non-partisan non-profit 501(c )(3) organization dedicated to the issues of election security, voter privacy, and government transparency, particularly in the arena of public elections. 

Contact:

Marilyn Marks

Marilyn@USCGG.org

704.292.9802