In this day and age this makes my ‘Suspicious!’ meter pegs. The excuse seems flimsy on why an order for evidence to be preserved was suddenly reversed.
Federal judge orders Georgia voting machines be preserved– then reverses; hearing set for Friday
Amid rumors that Georgia elections officials intended to alter or wipe voting machines used in the 2020 election, a federal judge has ordered that the machines be preserved in their current state. He then abruptly reversed that order, according to the attorney who asked for it.
The order was made public several hours after Georgia Republicans complained that elections officials had kept them at a distance for hours while election officials worked on the machines.
On Sunday, November 29, attorney Lin Wood tweeted the following:
GA officials performing “software update” on Fulton County voting machines at this very moment at World Congress Center. They are trying to erase the evidence by scrubbing the machines with litigation pending. BLOW YOUR HORNS. PATRIOTS. This cannot stand.
And
STOP THE SUNDAY ATTEMPT TO DESTROY EVIDENCE IN GA.
Shortly thereafter, an order from U.S. District Court Judge Timothy Batten, Sr. was made public:
Defendants are ordered to maintain the statue quo & are temporarily enjoined from wiping or resetting any voting machines in the State of Georgia until further order of the Court.
US District Court Judge Timothy Batten, Sr.
But not long after that decision, attorney Wood tweeted that the judge reversed his decision on the machines, based on claims that Georgia counties control the machines. The judge says the defendants do not control the machines and, therefore, he cannot order them to be preserved in their current state.
Meantime, a hearing on Wood’s broad ranging requests related to election fraud allegations is set for Friday.
Wood has also asked for a forensic audit and security tape videotape evidence.
Read the judge’s order summarizing the requests below.
