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At 1:36 p.m. Monday, a Montgomery County Circuit Court judge issued an order directing Alabama election officials to preserve all digital ballot images created at polling places across the state today.

But at 4:32 p.m. Monday, attorneys for Alabama Secretary of State John Merrill and Ed Packard, the state administrator of elections, filed an "emergency motion to stay" that order, which the state Supreme Court granted minutes after Merrill and Packard's motion was filed.

By granting the stay, the court effectively told the state that it does not in fact have to preserve the digital ballot images - essentially digitized versions of the paper ballots voters fill out at the voting booth - created today.

The court will hold a hearing on Dec. 21 about whether to dismiss the case outright. By that point the state will have had ample time to destroy the digital ballot images legally under the stay.

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Here's some more great news. http://www.al.com/news/index.ssf/2017/12/in_final-hour_order_court_rule.html



Amazing how swiftly their supreme court was able to act in this case.

Hm, it's too bad a certain special committee went dark and it's own members had no idea what the person next to do them was doing or they might be able to investigate something like this. But it's probably not part of their purview since it doesn't involve non existent illegal immigrants.

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But he did state that though the state does not preserve the digital ballot images, it does maintain the original paper ballots.

"The records for federal elections are required by law to be preserved for 22 months after the election occurs," Merrill said.

But Duncan said that "the paper ballots aren't really what's counted" unless there is a statewide recount, which would be "cost-prohibitive" if the state were ever to undertake one.

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At 1:36 p.m. Monday, a Montgomery County Circuit Court judge issued an order directing Alabama election officials to preserve all digital ballot images created at polling places across the state today.

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But Priscilla Duncan, attorney for four Alabama voters who sued the state last week in an attempt to force election officials to preserve the digital records, said Tuesday that their argument was "spurious" and misleading.

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There's no way to know for sure...but FOUR voters? Seems to me like one of the two parties is getting desperate.

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"At issue in this case is the simple fact that Merrill and his elections staff refused to tell county election offices to check one box in the software running the scanners that will read the ink-marked paper ballots and tabulate the vote Tuesday. Everything else cited by Merrill’s attorneys is a legalistic sideshow distracting from that basic fact."

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I wonder where the other three horsemen are? :rofl:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzBrcCOTQQQ