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A panel formed by Gov.-elect Brian Kemp voted Thursday to replace Georgiaâs electronic voting machines with a computerized system that prints paper ballots, despite opposition from a crowd of voters who said paper ballots filled out by hand are more secure and less expensive.

The Secure, Accessible & Fair Elections (SAFE) Commission voted 13-3 to recommend a voting system with touchscreens and printers, called ballot-marking devices, that would cost taxpayers well over $100 million. A system using paper ballots bubbled in with a pen would cost around $30 million.

The vote came the same week Kemp announced he was hiring former state Rep. Chuck Harper, a lobbyist for the stateâs current election vendor, Election Systems & Software, as his deputy chief of staff. The company sells the same kind of voting system that the commission recommended. Georgiaâs 16-year-old electronic voting system has come under fire from critics who say it could be hacked, and thereâs no way to check election results for accuracy without a paper backup. Some voters reported that the machines flipped their votes from one candidate to another in Novemberâs election, and a lawsuit blames the machines for suspiciously low vote totals in the lieutenant governorâs race.

Except for election officials and lobbyists, every voter who made public comments Thursday supported hand-marked paper ballots. County election supervisors backed ballot-marking devices, saying theyâre similar to the touchscreens that voters are accustomed to.

Voters told the SAFE Commission that ballot-marking devices wouldnât be much of an improvement over the stateâs current voting machines.