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The Potter County Republican Party and its chairman, Daniel Rogers, have filed a lawsuit in Amarillo federal court asking for all Texas ballots in the November 3 midterm elections to be hand-counted before certification. The lawsuit, assigned to U.S. District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk, claims voting machines could be vulnerable to interference through components made by foreign adversaries such as China, and cites potential risks from artificial intelligence or malicious actors, though it does not allege any past election results in Potter County or statewide have been altered. The plaintiffs argue that a full hand count is necessary to verify election integrity, saying partial audits do not provide sufficient verification.
Texas law already requires hand-count audits of a portion of ballots where electronic tabulators are used, but the lawsuit contends this is inadequate. Election security experts, including Ryan Macias, former acting director of the U.S. Election Assistance Commission’s Voting Systems Program, say Texas voting systems are resilient and not connected to the internet, making foreign interference highly unlikely.
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