For tonight's Debbie Downers - 5 Reasons why Jones could win tomorrow

JUST in......Stolen election...

...if you suspect that elections are crooked? I am serious, they will send observers in. Jimmy Carter used to do that in third world countries. Well, Alabama is basically that, a third world country. If nothing else it would be a well deserved embarrassment.

And it is not just AL that is a 3rd world country these days..

Jones wins then there is hope and it would mean that not only dems can win big in 2018 but also this: if the reddest of the red states Alabama can’t supress enough vote or cheat/steal election, then other states should be even better for us. If moore wins, I’m gonna have to take a break from all news and DU for a while. As for tonight, I’ll go to bed with positive thoughts.

This was notnsupposed to be a competitive state. If we win, it's like a free gift.

He will win and I will not be surprised since I expected it. If he loses I will be surprised and celebrate. This philosophy helps me deal with disappointments without becoming suicidal.

GOTV!

We'll find out

like they did against Don Siegelman in '02 (which then emboldened them to jail him outright, you'll recall).

http://bradblog.com/?p=12395

Why not just fight to view the actual paper ballots? Brakey explains: "You cannot get at the original ballots. They will not let you touch them. In order to get to them, you have to prove fraud first. And how are you going to prove fraud if you can't get to the ballots? That's the Catch-22. The ballot images are a tool to get us to the originals."

n/t.

w/o first proving fraud

that was the point of the images, to get to the ballots

bama sos is working overtime to avoid transparency

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canning from brad blog explains....

In his Dec. 11 Order Granting Preliminary Injunction, Judge Roman Ashley Shaul order simply required that all "counties employing digital ballot scanners in the Dec. 12, 2017 election...to set their voting machines to save ALL PROCESSED IMAGES in order to preserve all digital ballot images. This order applies to those machines that have such a setting and does not apply to any machine that does not allow for processed images to be saved."

The court noted that "there was little argument...that the law requires digital images to be preserved as a matter of Alabama law and Federal Law. The Secretary of State's Office..does have the ability to provide election information to election officials as a matter of course and routinely does so; and...all parties agreed that the relief requested would require nominal resources and cost on the part of the Defendants."

Subsequently, Greg Palast Tweeted that he had been informed by attorneys John Brakey and Chris Sautter that the GA Supreme Court had stayed Judge Shaul's order based up an ex parte complaint filed by the State.

If accurate, that is deeply troubling for two reasons.

(1) Under Rule 3.5 of the Alabama Rules of Professional Conduct, it is ordinarily unethical for an attorney to engage in ex parte communications with a judge --- communications about the substantive merits of litigation in which the opposition does not have adequate notice and opportunity to be heard.

2. Given the absence of significant costs and the clarity of the legal obligation to preserve the record, it is difficult to comprehend any reason for the stay --- other than a desire to preserve the ability of local election officials to alter the outcome of this pivotal election without leaving the evidence of that alteration for all to see via the preserved digital images.

And then discard the ballots.

This is a special election for one candidate in AL.

Moore's last election was a primary. He outran a sitting senator.

I don't expect Jones to win. If he does, I gladly eat crow.