A federal judge “issued a temporary
restraining order late Sunday night barring Georgia election
officials from resetting or otherwise altering Dominion Voting
Systems machines used during the November presidential election”
reports Just the News. The judge’s actions are due to attorney
Sidney Powell’s lawsuit against the state of Georgia claiming
voter fraud, which demanded “voting machines be seized and
impounded immediately for forensic audit by plaintiffs’
experts.”
Initially judge Timothy Batten Sr. told Powell her request
failed because the
voting equipment was in the possession of county election
officials. “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.”
Batten informed Powell she could amend her complaint to add
election officials in the counties in question to the least. In the
meantime, Batten ruled defendants are “enjoined and restrained
from altering, destroying, or erasing, or allowing the alteration,
destruction, or erasure of, any software or data on any Dominion
voting machine in Cobb, Gwinnett, and Cherokee counties.”
“The effect of the judge’s order” explains Just the News,
“is that the voting machines will not be allowed to be touched
for the sake of resetting or reprogramming by election officials
until Powell has had time to amend her lawsuit.” One Republican
poll worker signed an affidavit saying that on November 25th, an
election official said the Dominion ballot-counting machines were
scheduled to be reset the upcoming Monday. The poll worker alerted
a supervisor over their concern for wiping the machines.
“I am seeing lots of notices from lawyers about possibly
impounding the machines,” wrote the poll worker. “Lawyers are
now saying that the machines should be confiscated immediately
before this happens to protect forensic data.
They are saying those machines need to be impounded ASAP.
Yikes. Maybe I’m being over paranoid but let’s be sure this is
what we’re supposed to be doing” added the worker.
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Federal Judge Temporarily Blocks Georgia Counties From Wiping
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