Poll of the Day > Judge orders Alabama not to destroy voting records in Tuesday's Senate election

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http://www.al.com/news/index.ssf/2017/12/judge_orders_alabama_not_to_de.html

A judge directed Alabama election officials Monday afternoon to preserve all digital ballot images in Tuesday's hotly contested U.S. Senate special election.

An order granting a preliminary injunction was filed at 1:36 p.m. Monday - less than 24 hours before voting is to begin. The order came in response to a lawsuit filed Thursday on behalf of four Alabama voters who argued that the state is required to maintain the images under state and federal law.

"All counties employing digital ballot scanners in the Dec. 12, 2017 election are hereby ordered to set their voting machines to save all processed images in order to preserve all digital ballot images," Montgomery County Circuit Judge Roman Ashley Shaul wrote in the order.

Priscilla Duncan, attorney for the plaintiffs, applauded the order.

"[The images] need to be preserved at least six months under the statute," Duncan told AL.com Monday afternoon. "They are being told at this point to preserve all digital ballot records."

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did they not have to save them before?
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helIy posted...

did

did they not have to save them before?

By statute, they did.

However, it's entirely possible for some uninformed election overseer to just not know that they were supposed to save them, then get sued after the fact when it's already too fucking late to do anything about it.
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they wanted to look at the voting records in georgia
and somehow they were mysterioulsy deleted along with even the back up

as in someone wiped the drive then wrote all over it and wiped it again somehow unintentiounally right after they asked

tbh the republican base owns the voting machines and they can pretty much gerry mander with impunity making a 49 51 vote in their favour childs play if they draw the lines right
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I thought it was overturned... they can destroy them if they want
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Bump
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Lokarin posted...

I thought it was overturned... they can destroy them if they want

i'm all for destroying, i just wished it wasn't my neighbors car window. i wish i could tell him who did it... all it took was a crazy girlfriend.
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RoboXgp89 posted...

as in someone wiped the drive then wrote all over it and wiped it again somehow unintentiounally right after they asked

Data destruction programs will do that automatically (overwriting the old sectors with nonsense data to ensure there's nothing to recover), and it stands to reason that they'd already be using such a program to delete something as potentially sensitive as voting records. The timing's still suspicious, but the whole wiped-->rewritten-->wiped again thing is not unexpected.
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Lol, Roy Moore is demaning a recount but can't cuz he got the records destroyed
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now will they wait on the tax vote untill dude is in so that the peoples voice can be heard.
or will they be huge hypocrites again. (you know, the scotus pick)
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Lokarin posted...

Lol, Roy Moore is demaning a recount but can't cuz he got the records destroyed

Lmao. Backfired on his ass.
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FrndNhbrHdCEman posted...

Lokarin posted...

Lol, Roy Moore is demaning a recount but can't cuz he got the records destroyed

Lmao. Backfired on his ass.

Why do people think the repubs wanted this?
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bulbinking posted...

FrndNhbrHdCEman posted...

Lokarin posted...

Lol, Roy Moore is demaning a recount but can't cuz he got the records destroyed

Lmao. Backfired on his ass.

Why do people think the repubs wanted this?

Cuz the republicans there did.
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