Case 1:17-cv-02989-AT Document 579 Filed 08/15/19 Page 36 of 153 Plaintiffs in this case shows – while Georgia election officials have effectively taken no steps to address these deficiencies with its DRE-based system – a litany of other states have abandoned the plagued machines in exchange for a more secure and reliable alternative voting method. See Election Assistance Comm’n, Overview of Election Administration and Voting in 2018 20 (Jun. 27, 2019). These include California, Colorado, Kansas, Kentucky, Ohio, and Virginia. (Doc. 437-2 at 10-12.) Plaintiffs’ expert, Dr. Alex Halderman was part of an expert team of computer scientists who conducted the “top to bottom” review of California’s DRE system in 2006, which concluded that the machines were “inadequate to ensure accuracy and integrity of the election results.” (Halderman Decl. ¶ 22, Doc. 260-2.) This report informed the California Secretary of State’s decision to decertify the machines and transition to a paper ballot system. (Id.) The Court has also considered the Declaration and hearing testimony of Lowell Finley, former Deputy of State for voting Systems Technology and Policy (and simultaneously general counsel for 3 years) for the State of California for the period 2007-2014. Mr. Finley oversaw California’s top-to-bottom review of the state’s electronic voting systems that included computer security experts from major universities including Stanford, University of California, Princeton, and Rice. “The review resulted in the de-certification of several DRE systems, including a version of the AccuVote TSX currently used in Georgia based inserted into a machine, can install said malicious software using a simple method that takes as little as one minute.”). 36