Kemp showed some promise in his virus handling early on.

Don't want to lose hope, but I understand your skepticism.

This is why.

They think they are above the law': the firms that own America's voting system
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/apr/22/us-voting-machine-private-companies-voter-registration

Oregon senator Ron Wyden, in a speech at an election security conference in Washington DC, said that the voting machine lobby “literally thinks they are just above the law, they are accountable to nobody, [and] they have been able to hotwire the political system in certain parts of the country like we’ve seen in Georgia”.

Wyden was referring to the fact that Brian Kemp, who is now Georgia’s governor after overseeing his own election while secretary of state, appointed an ES&S lobbyist as his deputy chief of staff. Meanwhile, the state is in the process of purchasing more than $150m in new voting machines.