The federal judge overseeing high profile attorney Sidney Powell's election lawsuit in Georgia issued a temporary restraining order late Sunday night, declaring that election officials were barred from wiping or altering Dominion voting machines used in the November election.
The emergency order was the third issued in so many hours over Powell's lawsuit seeking an emergency order to see "Voting machines be seized and impounded immediately for forensic audit by plaintiffs' experts."
U.S. District Judge Timothy Batten Sr. overturned his first order when defendants argued that the machines were not in their possession, and that the relevant parties were not listed in the lawsuit.
Defendants listed in the case were state election board members Chairman Brad Raffensperger, Vice Chair Rebecca Sullivan, David Worley, Matthew Mashburn, and Anh Le. Then at 10:10 p.m., Batten again overturned his earlier order, and declared that defendants had until 5 p.m. Dec. 2 to respond against the new motion by plaintiffs seeking to allow their experts to perform forensic inspection of Dominion voting machines in Cobb, Gwinnett, and Cherokee counties.
The judge declared in the meantime that defendants are "Enjoined and restrained 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."
Upon seeing the message, the poll worker said they notified their supervisor because they were concerned about wiping the machines.
"Lawyers are now saying that the machines should be confiscated immediately before this happens to protect forensic data. They are saying those machines need to be impounded ASAP. Yikes. Maybe I'm being overly paranoid but let's be sure this is what we're supposed to be doing."
Monday, November 30, 2020
Judge Reapproves Emergency Order Blocking Georgia From Wiping or Resetting Voting Machines
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