In Final-Hour Order, Court Rules That Alabama Can Destroy Digital Voting Records After All
Gizmo | 12/11/17 | Connor Sheets
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.
https://gizmodo.com/alabama-supreme-court-okays-destruction-of-digital-voti-1821223685
An Alabama lower court should still able to order not to destroy voter information if they have evidence of voter fraud. So Moore better work quickly.
From your link:
“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.”
AL had already been notified that the voter rolls had been hacked. To deliberately seek legal action to make it impossible to find out whether that KNOWN HACKING had done any damage is not only unconscionable, it is downright criminal.
Why did the GOPee do this at the last minute? They should be sued for criminal negligence if not worse.
Anybody involved in this last minute decision make any large purchases. What are the political leanings pf this "judge"? Bizarre story. Something is not right here.
>>>In Final-Hour Order, Court Rules That Alabama Can Destroy Digital Voting Records After All
What do you think the digital images will show that the actual paper ballots will mot?
Protect the Swamp at all costs.