Voting machines, hacking and Georgia's election systems

If you vote in Georgia, you care about ballot security. And ahead of this fall's presidential election, it's never been more in the news.

Old voting machines, no paper audit trails, election vote hacking and what it would take to revamp Georgia's election system — these are all questions for Peach State voters heading into November.

Officials at the state’s Center for Election Systems gave us the answers.

Find out what they said, why they're not worried and get an insider's peek of the center itself only on our premium myajc.com website or by clicking here.

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