Attorneys for Georgia voters suing to force the state to junk electronic voting and return to paper ballots are pushing back against the secretary of state’s contention that doing so would plunge the November election into chaos.

Protestations by Secretary of State Brian Kemp that converting to paper ballots before early voting begins in October would be too hard, too expensive and could compromise the election “fundamentally mischaracterizes the reasonable, prudent and minimalist relief of polling place paper ballots,” Atlanta attorney Bruce Brown wrote in a pleading filed late Monday in federal court in Atlanta.