Judges tell officials it's ok to destroy ballot records of Alabama election!!

[CarlinAnnArbor]

Yes, republican judges......A republican Mueller......A republican DOJ.......

My God, Trump cultists are claiming that they all turned LIBERAL.......lol

"Republican" does NOT mean conservative.

Establishment Republicans HATE Trump and Moore.

 

[nat4900]

"Republican" does NOT mean conservative.

Establishment Republicans HATE Trump and Moore

How "true".......everyone is against you.......best you take some orange Cheetos and go hide under your bed......

 

[Skylar]

Told ya. Thousands of illegals voted once again. Dems have to break laws to win. This should be headline news on TV but it will be censored.

Alabama court gives last-minute order that could impede recount procedure

dec 13 2017 Controversy swirled over the mechanics of the Alabama Senate election after the state supreme court intervened at the eleventh hour to give election officials a green light not to preserve electronic ballot records that could form the basis of a recount.

A court in Montgomery, the state capital, issued an injunction on Monday afternoon ordering election officials around the state to preserve digital images of the ballots cast by Alabama voters in the hard-fought contest between controversial Republican Roy Moore and Democrat Doug Jones.

But the supreme court stayed that injunction almost immediately following a protest lodged by Alabama’s chief election official, the secretary of state, John Merrill. Voting rights experts denounced the ruling as a blow to transparency in a state that already has a flawed vote recount procedure and a somewhat checkered history of questionable election outcomes that the state’s senior officials and courts have allowed to go unchallenged. “There’s no legitimate reason not to preserve ballot images,” said Christopher Sautter, a veteran Washington election lawyer who helped the plaintiffs in the case. “It’s neither expensive nor inconvenient. It amounts to flipping a switch.”

Priscilla Duncan, the lead plaintiff in the case, noted with some amazement that the secretary of state’s protest was lodged with the supreme court at 4.38pm and the justices came back with their ruling at 5.18pm. “It’s just unbelievable that they examined the pleadings and got eight judges to concur in half an hour on a Monday afternoon,” she said.

If this were the other way around, the left would be having a total meltdown and crying that our democracy was in jeopardy. Since it's their guy, then who cares about a recount or ensuring that things were on the up and up?

This shit about no paper trail or any means to validate the results is a threat to democracy.

Why the rush to destroy records? Sounds fishy that they are in such a hurry to erase everything. This is how Dems roll.

The paper ballots are kept for 22 months. They are clearing the machines of the digital COPIES of the paper record. Like they do after every election.

And of course the person that allowed this...was the Secretary of State of Alabama. A hardcore republican and Roy Moore supporter.

The Right Wing doesn't need to rely entirely on Fake News.

Gullible idiots like Shooter manage to promote his own idiotic misunderstanding of the facts and his fellow sheeple just (bizarrely) believe what Shooter posts.

Anyone who actually read the article would have read that it was only the electronic records being deleted- and the paper ballots are being kept.

But leave it to the RWNJ to make up an entire story of voter fraud and blame it on Democrats- in a the deepest Red State in the Union.

And may it be pointed out to you again, the paper copy is not the record of individual votes it is the total. Not that it matters, it seems that this might be standard operating procedure not some nefarious conspiracy. But then again, if they don't have to destroy the electronic record so quickly why do it?

No, that's not accurate. The paper ballots are the actual paper ballots cast by individual voters. The machine makes a digital image. The digital images are counted, not the paper ballots. The paper ballots are stored, the machines reset after the election.

And they aren't 'destroying records', they're just resetting the machines. The machines are reset in preparation of the next election after each use and then stored.

This happens on the same time scale every single election.

 

[Freewill]

Told ya. Thousands of illegals voted once again. Dems have to break laws to win. This should be headline news on TV but it will be censored.

If this were the other way around, the left would be having a total meltdown and crying that our democracy was in jeopardy. Since it's their guy, then who cares about a recount or ensuring that things were on the up and up?

This shit about no paper trail or any means to validate the results is a threat to democracy.

Why the rush to destroy records? Sounds fishy that they are in such a hurry to erase everything. This is how Dems roll.

The paper ballots are kept for 22 months. They are clearing the machines of the digital COPIES of the paper record. Like they do after every election.

And of course the person that allowed this...was the Secretary of State of Alabama. A hardcore republican and Roy Moore supporter.

The Right Wing doesn't need to rely entirely on Fake News.

Gullible idiots like Shooter manage to promote his own idiotic misunderstanding of the facts and his fellow sheeple just (bizarrely) believe what Shooter posts.

Anyone who actually read the article would have read that it was only the electronic records being deleted- and the paper ballots are being kept.

But leave it to the RWNJ to make up an entire story of voter fraud and blame it on Democrats- in a the deepest Red State in the Union.

And may it be pointed out to you again, the paper copy is not the record of individual votes it is the total. Not that it matters, it seems that this might be standard operating procedure not some nefarious conspiracy. But then again, if they don't have to destroy the electronic record so quickly why do it?

No, that's not accurate. The paper ballots are the actual paper ballots cast by individual voters. The machine makes a digital image. The digital images are counted, not the paper ballots. The paper ballots are stored, the machines reset after the election.

And they aren't 'destroying records', they're just resetting the machines. The machines are reset in preparation of the next election after each use and then stored.

This happens on the same time scale every single election.

Do you have a link to the process.