Fight over voting system escalates ahead of November elections

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  • The FBI executed a search warrant for ballots from the 2020 presidential election at the Fulton County elections warehouse on Wednesday, Jan. 28. MARK NIESSE/Capitol Beat
    The FBI executed a search warrant for ballots from the 2020 presidential election at the Fulton County elections warehouse on Wednesday, Jan. 28. MARK NIESSE/Capitol Beat

    The battle over voter confidence in Georgia’s election machines flared up after the Legislature decided last month to keep them until 2028.

    Weeks after lawmakers voted to postpone their prior ban on the machines’ use of QR codes to tally results, the U.S. Department of Justice planned to surge into Atlanta with 260 FBI analysts. They were coming to help investigate the 2020 election, after the agen…