A federal judge has declined to block the use of Georgia’s electronic voting system.

The trial in a long-running legal challenge to the constitutionality of Georgia’s election is getting underway in federal court in Atlanta.

Election integrity activists want a federal judge to order Georgia to stop using its current election system.

The question of whether Georgia’s electronic voting system has major cybersecurity flaws that amount to a violation of voters’ constitutional rights to cast their votes and have those votes accurately counted is set to be decided at trial early next year.

(AP Photo/Mike Stewart, File)ATLANTA Voting integrity activists will try this week to convince a federal judge that Georgia should scrap its brand new touchscreen voting machines in favor of hand-marked paper ballots. A lawsuit filed in 2017 against state and county election officials that originally challenged the state's old, outdated voting machines has morphed to target the new machines and election system that Georgia bought last year for more than $100 million. They asked Totenberg to order a switch to hand-marked paper ballots for the midterm elections. Totenberg told both sides during a conference call that she didn't consider herself a guarantor for Georgia's election system roll-out. Switching to hand-marked paper ballots would be easy because that's already the backup in place in case of emergencies, like equipment failures, they argue.