Posted on 12/14/2017 4:51:25 AM PST by MarvinStinson
A valid recount in Alabama is impossible because the paper ballots (evidence) is being destroyed as we speak.
The Alabama Supreme Court stayed a lower courts order to election officials that would have required the preservation of voting records in Tuesdays Senate special election.
A circuit judge on Monday ordered election officials to set voting machines to save all digital ballot images, which would preserve voting records in the event of a recount.
Alabamas AL.com said Tuesday morning that the states Supreme Court had blocked the order.
A group of four Alabama voters filed a lawsuit last Thursday arguing that the state is required by law to preserve the images. The voters attorney, Priscilla Duncan, said that the circuit judges order would protect votes if there were an election challenge.
People think that when they mark the ballots and they go into the machine that thats what counted, Duncan told AL.com. But its not, the paper ballot is not whats counted. That ballot is scanned and they destroy [the ballots] after the election.
The judges order, which argued that voters would suffer irreparable and immediate harm if digital ballot images are not preserved, would have required the images to be saved for six months.
The Alabama Supreme Courts decision to stay the order came just hours before polls opened in the special election to fill Attorney General Jeff Sessionss former Senate seat, pitting Democrat Doug Jones against GOP candidate Roy Moore.
OAN. One America News.
I question this. Elections have to be canvassed so ballots are kept until that point. This is fear-mongering.
Thank you.
I question this. Elections have to be canvassed
so ballots are kept until that point.
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Yep poor reporting or reporting to stir up the masses.
Alabama keeps their paper ballots for 22 months for federal
elections and 6 months for state/local elections.
Thanks but I don’t find that info on their site now. They were also
calling the election for Moore around 2pm but later pulled that info.
Again thanks.
btt
Once the so called right gave permission to anybody else to stand between them and God, they lost.
We have to stay focused and rational. There is a whole lot of BS peddled to the right. It makes us look like a caricature. I do realize that much of the extreme things that the Democrats do sound like caricatures. But we have to not jump the shark every time someone yells insane accusations.
(evidence) is being destroyed.
True democrat style Vince Foster kicks box.
Fake Headline. The state of Alabama requires paper ballots to be retained for 22 months. The court case related to digital images of those ballots.
What information would the digital images hold that could not be discerned from the paper ballots in the event of a recount?
Not all Alabamians are stupid.
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