:: Judge Totebag orders Georgia ::
That’s Judge PBS-Contribution Totebag to the rest of us.
The court defined this order as “modest relief” and found in justification for its issuance the following:
“The statistical evidence of the increase in the provisional ballot rate for the 2018 general election is of a sufficient degree of significance that the Court can conclude with confidence that the variation was not due to natural fluctuation, but was instead reasonably likely to have been the result of persistent problems and/or errors in the State’s voter registration system and ineffective administration of the provisional balloting scheme.”
The bottom line is that this order — while likely to be trumpeted by Ms. Abrams and her allies — is more focused on preserving documentation for the next phase of expected litigation than in altering the likely outcome of the vote counting process.