What did the judge order the guardians of the Dominion machines if he did not tell them to stop erasing data from the suspect machines? Let's review the record:
Sidney Powell filed a lawsuit against Kemp, Raffensperger, and 4 others to force them to allow the suspect Dominion voting machines to be examined due to troubling possible fraud evidence. The six tried to avoid the lawsuit by claiming they had no jurisdiction over county elections, which is farcical. The plaintiffs appealed the judge's decision to halt the removal of data on the machines until a forensic examination of the machines could be conducted. The state officials puzzlingly objected to having the machines examined by forensics experts, raising more questions as to why they did not want the machines examined for confirmation that they had not been corrupted.
Just 3 weeks after the day of the election the judge stopped the state officials from erasing data on the machines.
Judge directs state officials not to reset Georgia voting machines | The Hill 11-30-20
Judge directs state officials not to reset Georgia voting machines
BY ZACK BUDRYK - 11/30/20 12:46 PM ET
A federal judge on Sunday barred state officials from resetting voting machines used in three Georgia counties.
In the four-page order, District Judge Timothy Batten, a George W. Bush appointee, barred officials 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.”
Attorney Sidney Powell, who brought the suit against Gov. Brian Kemp (R), Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger (R) and four other election officials, has alleged without evidence that Dominion election systems were tampered with by foreign governments.
In a hearing on Sunday, the state officials argued that they do not have authority over county elections officials. Batten agreed to receive a brief from Kemp and Raffensperger detailing their opposition to a “forensic inspection” of the machines, and also ordered the defendants to provide the plaintiffs with the state’s contract with the company.
However, he also certified the temporary hold for appeal, allowing Raffensperger and Kemp to immediately appeal the decision to the 11th Circuit. He noted in an order on Monday morning that the case may benefit from an appeal, appearing to acknowledge jurisdictional questions about the lawsuit.
“The Court finds that its November 29 order partially granting Defendants’ motion for a temporary restraining order involves a controlling question of law as to which there is substantial ground for difference of opinion and that an immediate appeal from the order may materially advance the ultimate termination of the litigation,” Batten wrote.
Batten said in a Monday morning order that he would hold a hearing on the case Friday morning.
The Trump campaign has distanced itself from Powell after her brief stint on its legal team, but President Trump has continued to repeat her claims and said Sunday he was “ashamed” he endorsed Kemp in 2018.
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District judge halts 3 Georgia counties from erasing Dominion voting machine data | Fox News 11-30-20
GEORGIA
Published November 30, 2020 11:43am EST
District judge halts 3 Georgia counties from erasing Dominion voting machine data
Republican electors are seeking to inspect Dominion machines
A district judge on Sunday night blocked three Georgia counties from altering or erasing data on Dominion voting machines after Republican nominees to the Electoral College filed an emergency motion.
Judge Timothy C. Batten Sr.'s order applies to Dominion voting machines in Cobb, Gwinnett and Cherokee counties, which are clustered in the Atlanta metropolitan area. The order does not apply to Georgia's other 156 counties.
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"After a general election and hand recount audit, Vice President [Joe] Biden was declared the winner of Georgia’s General Election for President by a margin of 12,670 votes on November 20, 2020," the plaintiffs wrote on Friday. "But the vote count certified by the Defendants on November 20 is wrong. Tens of thousands of votes counted toward Vice President Biden’s final tally were the product of illegality, and physical and computer-based fraud leading to 'outright ballot stuffing.'"
"Georgia's election process depends entirely on voting machines, tabulators and software purchased from Dominion Voting Systems Corporation ('Dominion') that was compromised. Computerized vote recording and tabulations are controlled by software programs that were designed to cheat, and which were open to human manipulation," the filing continued.
The elector nominees, who include conservative teen pundit C.J. Pearson, are seeking an order to allow them to inspect Dominion voting machines. They name Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp and Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, both Republicans, among the defendants.
Dominion countered that "allowing such forensic inspections would pose substantial security and proprietary/trade secret risks," Batten wrote.
Dominion has until Wednesday "to file a brief setting forth in detail the factual bases they have, if any, against allowing the three forensic inspections. The brief should be accompanied and supported by affidavit or other evidence, if appropriate," Batten ordered.
Batten's order comes as all eyes are on Georgia amid twin Senate runoff races and President Trump's criticism of Kemp and Raffensperger over the election, which he lost.
Cobb County Election officials handle ballots during an audit, Monday, Nov. 16, 2020, in Marietta, Ga. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart)
"Why won't Governor @BrianKempGA, the hapless Governor of Georgia, use his emergency powers, which can be easily done, to overrule his obstinate Secretary of State, and do a match of signatures on envelopes," Trump wrote on Twitter on Monday morning. "It will be a 'goldmine' of fraud, and we will easily WIN the state."
Michael Steel, a spokesman for Dominion, previously denied claims that vote cast through the company’s systems were at risk of being altered. He said it is physically impossible to alter votes in the system.
"Look, when a voter votes on a Dominion machine, they fill out a ballot on a touch screen. They are given a printed copy which they then give to a local election official for safekeeping. If any electronic interference had taken place, the tally reported electronically would not match the printed ballots. and in every case where we've looked at -- in Georgia, all across the country -- the printed ballot, the gold standard in election security, has matched the electronic tally," he said.
Trump’s campaign launched several lawsuits challenging the voting systems and processes in key battleground states including Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.
