Georgia Officials Kept Hundreds of Voting Machines Locked in Warehouses on Election Day

[DonViejo]

by Colin Kalmbacher | 2:58 pm, November 8th, 2018

Hundreds of functional voting machines sat unused, locked away in warehouses, across metropolitan Atlanta as thousands of black voters weathered hours-long lines at the polls on Election Day.

According to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, local officials in Cobb, DeKalb, and Fulton counties sequestered the machines due to “an ongoing federal lawsuit that argues Georgia’s electronic voting machines could be hacked or tampered with.”

But there’s at least one major problem with this excuse: the ongoing litigation doesn’t demand anything of the sort. Bruce Brown, an attorney for some of the plaintiffs in the case of Curling v. Kemp, noted this interesting turn of events in comments to the outlet:

No judge anywhere, at any time, has ever ordered Fulton County or any other county to set aside more machines than they said they could spare. No request was ever made by anyone to plaintiffs or the court suggesting that Fulton or anyone else needed more machines for this or any other election.

A Law&Crime analysis of the relevant court filings, motions, and orders in the case supports Brown’s estimation of the problem here.

U.S. District Judge Amy Totenberg has never issued any such decision. Nor have the plaintiffs or the defendants ever suggested such a scenario–functional machines kept under lock-and-key while polling sites struggle to accommodate voters–in any of their proposals to the court.

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[octoberlib]

1. This is sooo fucked up. It's disgraceful.

[whathehell]

2. I hear the 50's calling..

They want their old racist tricks and.tropes back. Un-fucking believable.