TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Kate Prince on Jan 28, 2020

A three-judge panel of the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday sided with a district court ruling that rejected a lawsuit challenging the security of voting machines in Shelby County, the Commercial Appeal reports. The lower court ruling was made in September against the Shelby County Advocates for Valid Elections lawsuit. The group had sued for a switch to handwritten ballots and a voter verifiable paper trail, arguing that the touchscreen voting machines in Memphis aren’t secure. Appellate judges wrote that the plaintiffs failed to show that there is an imminent risk of people hacking into voting machines in the county.