Posted on 11/29/2020 2:59:36 PM PST by Yo-Yo
Amid rumors that Georgia elections officials intended to alter or wipe voting machines used in the 2020 election, a federal judge has ordered that the machines be preserved in their current state. He then abruptly reversed that order, according to the attorney who asked for it.
The order was made public several hours after Georgia Republicans complained that elections officials had kept them at a distance for hours while election officials worked on the machines.
On Sunday, November 29, attorney Lin Wood tweeted the following:
GA officials performing “software update” on Fulton County voting machines at this very moment at World Congress Center. They are trying to erase the evidence by scrubbing the machines with litigation pending. BLOW YOUR HORNS. PATRIOTS. This cannot stand.
And
STOP THE SUNDAY ATTEMPT TO DESTROY EVIDENCE IN GA.
Shortly thereafter, an order from U.S. District Court Judge Timothy Batten, Sr. was made public:
Defendants are ordered to maintain the statue quo & are temporarily enjoined from wiping or resetting any voting machines in the State of Georgia until further order of the Court.US District Court Judge Timothy Batten, Sr.
But not long after that decision, attorney Wood tweeted that the judge reversed his decision on the machines, based on claims that Georgia counties control the machines. The judge says the defendants do not control the machines and, therefore, he cannot order them to be preserved in their current state.
Meantime, a hearing on Wood's broad ranging requests related to election fraud allegations is set for Friday.
Wood has also asked for a forensic audit and security tape videotape evidence.
Read the judge's order summarizing the requests below.
In addition, Plaintiffs contend that Union County officials have advised that they are going to wipe or reset the voting machines of all data and bring the count back to zero on Monday, November 30.
On this basis, Plaintiffs seek a temporary restraining order to impound and preserve the voting machines in the State of Georgia, and to prevent any wiping of data.
However, Plaintiffs’ request fails because the voting equipment that they seek to impound is in the possession of county election officials . Any injunction the Court issues would extend only to Defendants and those within their control, and Plaintiffs have not demonstrated that county election officials are within Defendants’ control.
Defendants cannot serve as a proxy for local election officials against whom the relief should be sought. Jacobson v. Fla. Sec’y of State, 974 F.3d 1236, 1256 – 58 (11th Cir. 2020).
Therefore, to the extent Plaintiffs seek emergency relief to impound and preserve the voting machines, that request is denied.
Someone got to the judge...
Sure did!
Friday is too late. It is only a couple of days from Dec 8, the Safe Harbor deadline.
Why are the GA Counties being allowed to control what happens to these voting machines if there could be proof of the fraud on them, it would be a big mistake if someone is destructing evidence as the plaintiffs already know what to look for and there’s more voting machines nation wide that GA Counties are not in control of that can and will be examined.
So add the 159 county clerks as defendants and refile amended immediately. Copy paste 5 minutes.
What a crooked pile of ****.
I don’t know about Georgia, but in California the counties are actually political subdivisions of the State, so granting an order directed at the State would likely include the Counties, if it was applicable.
Only 159 counties in GA... Would seem reasonable to assume SOS has some method for sending mass communications to county level election functionaries in all 159. Should ask for an order requiring them to at least send a communication to all 159 even though they wouldn’t be legally responsible for county’s compliance. Many are more rural GOP favorable counties and would comply. Also request a specific orders for Fulton and whatever big Dei counties they can arrange. They won’t get 100% but will have gotten most and will have documented they’d tried to get all.
People must defend themselves and their country .
Judges and politicians will not since they are under big pressure and .....threats .
Get out in the street and demonstrate or they will not move a finger
I live in Georgia (Forsyth County), and a few years ago, they built a new Board of Elections facility to house all the county’s voting equipment, etc. It’s just down the street from my house & I can tell you this: that building was a hive of activity today. (And, given that it’s Sunday in the South, that seems pretty odd.)
Those same machines need to be cleared, calibrated, and certified
for the upcoming (2) Senate run-off elections.
Early voting begins two weeks from now on Dec. 14th.
Two simple and probably too late. I bet a lot of these machines of already been tampered with since the election day.
Lin Wood
@LLinWood
Looks like @GaSecofState Brad Raffensperger DOES do business at Eaton Corporation. State business. Voting related.
Do GA Patriots think Raffesperger is corrupt & knee deep in the fraudulent election or is it just me?
(video clip)
https://twitter.com/LLinWood/status/1333181456219246592
Lin Wood
@LLinWood
Does @GaSecofState Brad Raffensperger operate a branch office at Eaton Corporation?
4:50 PM · Nov 29, 2020
wiki:
On September 28, 2005, Batten was nominated by President George W. Bush
http://www.law.uga.edu/profile/timothy-c-batten-sr
Timothy C. Batten Sr.
Instuctor-in-residence
B.S., Georgia Institute of Technology
J.D., University of Georgia
Courses:
Introduction to the American Legal System
Biographical Information:
Judge Timothy C. Batten Sr. presently serves on the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia. He was nominated by President George W. Bush and was confirmed in 2006.
Previously he was a partner at Schreeder, Wheeler & Flint, where he practiced for more than 20 years.
Since 2009, Batten has been a featured federal law speaker for the American Conference Institute and the American Bar Association Antitrust Section at conferences around the country.
Batten earned his bachelor’s degree summa cum laude from the Georgia Institute of Technology and his law degree cum laude from UGA.
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