Case 1:17-cv-02989-AT Document 579 Filed 08/15/19 Page 22 of 153 [t]he depletion of the HAVA funds has significant implications today, as the systems deployed as a result of HAVA are nearing the end of their useful life and need to be replaced. The service life of most new voting hardware and software purchased and installed immediately after the passing of HAVA is 10-15 years, and states now lacking HAVA funds have to go to extraordinary lengths to keep their aging systems operational. (Id.) Georgia’s DRE system originally was intended to include the capacity for an independent paper audit trail of every ballot cast, but this feature was never effectuated. (Report of the 21st Century Voting Commission, Pl. Ex. 10 at 38, introduced at Preliminary Injunction hearing; testimony of Cathy Cox.) In the September 2018 hearing, former Secretary of State Cathy Cox testified that when Georgia made the switch to DREs without the option for a paper trail in 2001, “none of us contemplated that this would be the end of the process but that it would – that Kennesaw to some extent could help us stay on top of things. But I don’t know that we realized this equipment probably could not be updated as much as we would have anticipated. We probably didn’t anticipate obviously a recession would come about and there wouldn’t be money to provide new equipment over time.” (Tr., Doc. 307 at 293-94.) Georgia chose to use the Diebold Accuvote DRE which relies upon versions of Windows and BallotStation software (developed in 2005) both of which are out of date – to the point that the makers of the software no longer support these versions or provide security patches for them. (Halderman Decl., Doc. 260-2 ¶¶ 22