In Final-Hour Order, Court Rules That Alabama Can Destroy Digital Voting Records After All

Gizmo ^ | 12/11/17 | Connor Sheets

[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.

[CivilWarBrewing]

Your vote was DESTROYED, therefore you stayed home.

[ptsal]

Fix

[GreenLanternCorps]

They have to keep the paper records fo 22 months after the election.

[Yosemitest]

... “After hearing arguments and reviewing the filings, it appears that Plaintiffs and similarly situated voters would suffer irreparable and immediate harm if digital ballot images are not preserved,” Montgomery County Circuit Judge Roman Ashley Shaul wrote in his order requiring ballot images to be preserved.

However, the state Supreme Court overruled his decision, which Verified Voting says will limit the state’s ability to do election audits or catch hacking attempts.

“If every state’s election systems provided voter-verified paper ballots and post-election audits, we would be able to detect and correct errors or election tampering. But without the proper procedures in place, Alabama will be unable to do this,” Schneider said.

This is NOT GOOD !

[Drew68]

You're joking, right?

No, I'm not. Moore was a flawed candidate who failed to extinguish the rumors that he pawed all over teen girls as a grown man. Trump's voters stayed home and now President Trump is wisely washing his hands of this whole embarrassment.

Our candidates need to be better vetted in the future.

[Salamander]

Wherever there is a Dem candidate, fraud will be there, too, regardless of the outcome.

It just is.

[smokingfrog]

Mmmmm

A little TOO convenient.

[Bogie]

Gee, and no Russians.

[SecAmndmt]

“this important to Dems”

Deep state, not just Dems

[Bogie]

Good point.

[Boomer]

I think you’re right and wrong at the same time. Right about republicans staying home (shame on them) but wrong about the fraud. Dems are all about the election fraud. They have practically made it into an art form at this point.

[dowcaet]

A Democrat was involved in this election. Of course vote fraud was committed. There is never a clean vote with Democrats around.

[robel]

Although Democrats might not cheat in every election, such as in California, where there is no need to cheat, if they see a need to cheat to win, they certainly will. And just because the Republican candidate may be weak, if the Democrats think it will be close, they will cheat. To think otherwise is to be ignorant of the Democrats mindset.

[Monorprise]

Mitch told them to stay home, even our so called ‘hero’ Ted Cruz betrayed us.

They gave a senate seat to the democrats, and conceded that all men are presumed guilty until proven innocent.

We just lost our freedom today, and proven we can’t trust any of theses RINO’s even Ted cruz.

Not that it matters by this o so reliable forumula who’s timing the media controls we can look forward to the democrats producing women to issue claims against each and every single one of our canadit after the primary next year and every election thereafter.

If they can beat us in Alabama they can and will beat us everywhere this way.

[2CAVTrooper]

There’s been at least one report of a van full of illegals going around and voting in multiple counties/ polling stations.

And Montgomery just recently received electronic voting machines (didn’t appear to be touch screen, but are electronic nonetheless).

[2CAVTrooper]

Yep.

Let’s not forget the voter intimidation radio ads by that pro-jones Highway 31 PAC.

And speaking of voter intimidation, over the past two weeks there have been signs with “Vote Or Die” on them that have been placed in West Montgomery and other predominantly black areas of Montgomery.

[ransomnote]

I don’t believe Dems would “leave it to chance” so I believe they did rig votes just as I believe what you say - that Repubs stayed home.

I also think there may be a trap in all this - that “someone” may have watched for an electronic flood of interference starting at the time the court revealed that voting records could be destroyed. I dunno but it’s an odd thing to have a last hour decision to allow shredding of e-votes knowing that you’d need to be able to audit quality/fairness.

[JohnyBoy]

>I also think there may be a trap in all this - that “someone” may have watched for an electronic flood of interference starting at the time the court revealed that voting records could be destroyed. I dunno but it’s an odd thing to have a last hour decision to allow shredding of e-votes knowing that you’d need to be able to audit quality/fairness.

Margins were just not close enough to worry about it. Trump warned us about Moore:

https://www.dailywire.com/news/24620/flashback-trump-predicted-roy-moore-would-lose-michael-j-knowles?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_content=062316-news&utm_campaign=benshapiro

It turns out, President Trump did. On September 22, President Trump predicted that Roy Moore would likely lose to his Democrat opponent in the general election. He explained,

I have to say this, and you understand this and just look at the polls. Luther will definitely win. Roy has a very good chance of not winning in the general election. It’s all about the general. Don’t forget, we don’t stop here. You have an election coming up the day this is over. So this is over on Tuesday. On Wednesday morning, the new race begins. You’ve got to beat a Democrat. Luther is going to win easily and Roy’s going to have a hard time winning.

[Enlightened1]

Bingo

[Enlightened1]

Sessions got 1.3 million votes and the Democrat got 700k

There are 2 Republican voters for every 1 Democrat.

It was WITHOUT A DOUBT stolen.

That’s the only way they win lying, cheating and stealing.