Ga. secretary of state: Voting system differs from Iowa's

Georgia's new voting system is very different from the app that caused problems reporting results of Democratic caucuses in Iowa, said Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger.

Georgia election officials are rolling out a statewide suite of voting equipment, including touchscreens, printers and voter check-in tablets. Printed-out ballots will be counted by optical scanners.

In Iowa, a mobile app created to compile and report caucus results malfunctioned, reporting only partial results. Results were being tabulated on paper.

“For those who are concerned about the primary process in Georgia following the events in Iowa last night, know that in numerous ways, Georgia is not Iowa,” Raffensperger, a Republican, said in a statement Tuesday.

Georgia bought its $104 million voting system from Dominion, the second-largest elections company in the nation. The Iowa Democrat Party purchased its software from Shadow Inc., a tech startup.

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