⚖ Oral Arguments, with Context

The Eleventh Circuit hears a challenge to Georgia's electronic in-person voting system. The lawsuit began in 2017 over older electronic voting equipment and continued after Georgia adopted a different system. Under the system challenged here, voters make choices on a touchscreen. It prints a paper ballot showing those choices in readable text and a QR code. The scanner counts the code, not the printed names. Voters can inspect the names, but the plaintiffs say that doesn't let them personally verify the coded record that is counted. They sought to stop use of this system and replace it with hand-marked paper ballots. After a trial in 2024, the district court dismissed the case in 2025 for lack of standing. Standing asks whether they face a concrete, personal injury linked to the defendants' conduct that the requested court order is likely to remedy. The voters and an advocacy organization will argue that these are individual and organizational harms, not merely policy objections. The state will defend the dismissal. Another plaintiff will argue that his claims of vote-counting errors weren't separately considered. Distinguish these allegations from a finding that an election result was wrong. Listen for how the judges separate the right to sue from the merits of the voting system itself.

Curling v. Worley (No. 25-11320) — U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, argued November 4, 2026.