With time short, judge mulls Georgia voting system changes

ATLANTA (AP) — With the start of early voting less than a week away and a software update being installed to address a glitch in Georgia’s voting machines, a federal judge was still considering a request by voting integrity activists to sideline the new touchscreen voting machines in favor of hand-marked paper ballots for the November general election. U.S. District Judge Amy Totenberg is presiding over a long-running lawsuit filed by election…