For those of us who are pretty well done with the Stolen Election meme and would like to just move on from all that in this next election, I'm sorry to report that Georgia is not going to make it easy:

Georgia election officials have been aware of existing vulnerabilities in the state's voting software for more than two years but continue to insist the system is safe and won't be updated until after 2024, according to a report that was unsealed this week as part of a controversial court case in Georgia.

The report's findings focus on weaknesses in software for certain Dominion Voting machines. Those weaknesses were previously verified by federal cybersecurity officials, who urged election officials across the country to update their systems.

So Georgia has election vulnerabilities. They know they have election vulnerabilities. The feds know they have election vulnerabilities. And yet they're not going to do anything to address these concerns until after the next major presidential election?

If you can imagine a scenario more perfectly designed to restart all the stolen-election theories yet again, this is it. "We know there are major security risks associated with this platform, but, eh, ah well."

University of Michigan computer scientist J. Alex Halderman points out that the flaws are not secret, they are well known, and not fixing them is like ringing the dinner bell for bad actors:

Delaying the security patches until 2025 is "worse than doing nothing," warned Halderman, "since it puts world-be adversaries on notice that the state will conduct the presidential election with this particular version of software with known vulnerabilities, giving them nearly 18 months to prepare and deploy attacks."

The Georgia government, on the other hand, "maintains that the attack scenarios described in Halderman's report are unrealistic."

Okay. Yeah. Sure. Good luck with all this, Georgia. See you at 3 a.m. on election night.