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Alarm as GOP-Led Election Board Asks Trump Administration to Probe Georgia Voting Systems

Experts are raising alarms after Georgia's Republican-led State Election Board requested that President Donald Trump's Department of Justice launch an investigation into state voting machines just over a month before the 2026 midterm elections. As reported by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution on Thursday, James Mills, executive director of the State…

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