Posted on 12/12/2017 8:11:01 PM PST by Enlightened1
Alabama is allowed to destroy digital voting records created at the polls during today's U.S. Senate election after all.
At 1:36 p.m. Monday, a Montgomery County Circuit Court judge issued an order directing Alabama election officials to preserve all digital ballot images created at polling places across the state today.
But at 4:32 p.m. Monday, attorneys for Alabama Secretary of State John Merrill and Ed Packard, the state administrator of elections, filed an "emergency motion to stay" that order, which the state Supreme Court granted minutes after Merrill and Packard's motion was filed.
By granting the stay, the court effectively told the state that it does not in fact have to preserve the digital ballot images - essentially digitized versions of the paper ballots voters fill out at the voting booth - created today.
The court will hold a hearing on Dec. 21 about whether to dismiss the case outright. By that point the state will have had ample time to destroy the digital ballot images legally under the stay.
Merrill and Packard's attorneys argued in the emergency motion Monday that the two officials "do not have authority to maintain such records or to require local officials to do so. Plaintiffs therefore lack standing, the Circuit Court lacks jurisdiction, and the order is a nullity. Although a nullity, it will, if not stayed, cause confusion among elections officials and be disruptive to an election scheduled for tomorrow."
But Priscilla Duncan, attorney for four Alabama voters who sued the state last week in an attempt to force election officials to preserve the digital records, said Tuesday that their argument was "spurious" and misleading.
(Excerpt) Read more at gizmodo.com ...
Electronic voting and the record can now be erased.
Thus, the voters of Alabama can't go back to check the votes.
Stolen election
Wrong link... Sorry... Please correct to
http://www.al.com/news/index.ssf/2017/12/in_final-hour_order_court_rule.html
Move along, peasants. Nothing to see here.
Seals their deal.
>Stolen election
Nope. Should have been an easy win. GOP voters did not turn out.
Can't help but think there is a war coming.
No. Republicans stayed home. Trump received 1.3 million votes in Alabama last year. Moore didn't even get half that.
There was no fraud.
How can any state allow ballots, virtual or physical, to be destroyed before any recount may need to occur?
How can any state allow ballots, virtual or physical, to be destroyed before any recount may need to occur?
This should have been their first priority from day one: Securing all future elections with national consequence.
How can you conclude there was no fraud?
Ridiculous. No one knows.
And if they erase the records, no one will ever know.
Moore and Jones also received fewer votes than Hillary.
Well,
If the records are destroyed? Just contest the outcome, and ask for proof and validation. If unable to provide......then they never voted.
Alabama.....Go Figure?
Don’t think that fraud was NOT involved in an election this important to Dems.
You're joking, right?
Mighty suspicious. What are they trying to hide?????
Jones received 90% of the votes that Hillary got.
Moore rallied 48% of Trump's voters.
Democrats got their people to the polls. Republicans stayed home. No fraud necessary.
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