Federal judge re-approves emergency order blocking Georgia from wiping state voting machines – IOTW Report

Federal judge re-approves emergency order blocking Georgia from wiping state voting machines

Monday, 30 November 2020, 11:42 MJA Uncategorized 8

Just The News: 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. 

The order was issued as a part of attorney Sidney Powell’s ongoing election lawsuit in Georgia and was the third emergency order issued Sunday night to ensure “voting machines be seized and impounded immediately for forensic audit by plaintiffs’ experts,” according to Powell’s suit.

However, Judge Timothy Batten Sr. told Powell that her request to seize and impound the voting machines failed because the voting equipment she wants to impound is in the possession of county election officials. So any injunction the court issues would extend only to the defendants and those within their control.

“Plaintiffs have not demonstrated that county election officials are within defendants’ control,” the judge wrote. “Defendants cannot serve as a proxy for local election officials against whom the relief should be sought.”

Still, Batten told Powell she could amend her complaint by adding election officials in relevant counties to the list, and in the meantime, 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.” more

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