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    Default Judge tells officials it's ok to destroy ballot records of Alabama election!!!

    Told ya. Thousands of illegals voted once again. Dems have to break laws to win. This should be headline news on TV but it will be censored.

    https://www.yahoo.com/news/alabama-c...ail&soc_trk=ma

    dec 13 2017 Controversy swirled over the mechanics of the Alabama Senate election after the state supreme court intervened at the eleventh hour to give election officials a green light not to preserve electronic ballot records that could form the basis of a recount.

    A court in Montgomery, the state capital, issued an injunction on Monday afternoon ordering election officials around the state to preserve digital images of the ballots cast by Alabama voters in the hard-fought contest between controversial Republican Roy Moore and Democrat Doug Jones.

    But the supreme court stayed that injunction almost immediately following a protest lodged by Alabama’s chief election official, the secretary of state, John Merrill. Voting rights experts denounced the ruling as a blow to transparency in a state that already has a flawed vote recount procedure and a somewhat checkered history of questionable election outcomes that the state’s senior officials and courts have allowed to go unchallenged. “There’s no legitimate reason not to preserve ballot images,” said Christopher Sautter, a veteran Washington election lawyer who helped the plaintiffs in the case. “It’s neither expensive nor inconvenient. It amounts to flipping a switch.”

    Priscilla Duncan, the lead plaintiff in the case, noted with some amazement that the secretary of state’s protest was lodged with the supreme court at 4.38pm and the justices came back with their ruling at 5.18pm. “It’s just unbelievable that they examined the pleadings and got eight judges to concur in half an hour on a Monday afternoon,” she said.
    Reckless drivers are a bigger threat to you than all other criminals put together!

    THE BIG LIE - Blacks and whites are different physically but identical mentally!

    There is no way 81 million americans voted for a man they know is a child molester w dementia. Impeach Joe the Pedophile Vegetable (JPV)

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    Quote Originally Posted by Text Drivers are Killers View Post
    Told ya. Thousands of illegals voted once again. Dems have to break laws to win. This should be headline news on TV but it will be censored.
    The only problem with your claim is you've got NO PROOF WHATSOEVER.

    Too bad...so sad!
    What kind of country have we become?

    One in which federal prosecutors can take “evidence” before a “grand jury,”

    and that grand jury can “vote to indict” a former president for 91 alleged “crimes”?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Text Drivers are Killers View Post
    Told ya. Thousands of illegals voted once again. Dems have to break laws to win. This should be headline news on TV but it will be censored.
    Everything in that article could be read as an effort by the Moore camp to destroy the ballots, yet you immediately jumped the gun and generalized that it had to do with Democrats and illegals, and then implied the media was biased because they would not cover the story

    Turn off your radio and enjoy the real world for awhile

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    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Merrill_(politician)


    John Harold Merrill (born November 12, 1963) is an American politician serving as the 53rd and current Secretary of State of Alabama since 2015. He is a member of the Republican Party.

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    You have to realize that this election is over, and I hope that Moore will except the outcome sooner rather than later. Even if he had won, he would have been persona non grata and the left would have used his election to office to smear the right's hypocrisy.
    I don't think we have heard the last of this, however, because this smear campaign, imho, stinks. The truth has a way to surface, eventually. It won't or shouldn't change the outcome, the voters have spoken, and everyone has to accept it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lovebug View Post
    You have to realize that this election is over, and I hope that Moore will except the outcome sooner rather than later. Even if he had won, he would have been persona non grata and the left would have used his election to office to smear the right's hypocrisy.
    I don't think we have heard the last of this, however, because this smear campaign, imho, stinks. The truth has a way to surface, eventually. It won't or shouldn't change the outcome, the voters have spoken, and everyone has to accept it.
    Yeah, it stinks that a man assaulted a 14 year old and never suffered any consequences for his actions.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ZappasGuitar View Post
    The only problem with your claim is you've got NO PROOF WHATSOEVER.

    Too bad...so sad!
    Proof??? You didn't demand proof of roy moore's accusers. THINK, you miserable white-hating racist wretch.
    Reckless drivers are a bigger threat to you than all other criminals put together!

    THE BIG LIE - Blacks and whites are different physically but identical mentally!

    There is no way 81 million americans voted for a man they know is a child molester w dementia. Impeach Joe the Pedophile Vegetable (JPV)

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    Quote Originally Posted by Text Drivers are Killers View Post
    Told ya. Thousands of illegals voted once again. Dems have to break laws to win. This should be headline news on TV but it will be censored.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Merrill_(politician)


    John Harold Merrill (born November 12, 1963) is an American politician serving as the 53rd and current Secretary of State of Alabama since 2015. He is a member of the Republican Party.



    its the republicans who want to wash the proof idiot

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    https://www.yahoo.com/news/alabama-c...ail&soc_trk=ma

    dec 13 2017 Controversy swirled over the mechanics of the Alabama Senate election after the state supreme court intervened at the eleventh hour to give election officials a green light not to preserve electronic ballot records that could form the basis of a recount.

    A court in Montgomery, the state capital, issued an injunction on Monday afternoon ordering election officials around the state to preserve digital images of the ballots cast by Alabama voters in the hard-fought contest between controversial Republican Roy Moore and Democrat Doug Jones.

    But the supreme court stayed that injunction almost immediately following a protest lodged by Alabama’s chief election official, the secretary of state, John Merrill. Voting rights experts denounced the ruling as a blow to transparency in a state that already has a flawed vote recount procedure and a somewhat checkered history of questionable election outcomes that the state’s senior officials and courts have allowed to go unchallenged. “There’s no legitimate reason not to preserve ballot images,” said Christopher Sautter, a veteran Washington election lawyer who helped the plaintiffs in the case. “It’s neither expensive nor inconvenient. It amounts to flipping a switch.”

    Priscilla Duncan, the lead plaintiff in the case, noted with some amazement that the secretary of state’s protest was lodged with the supreme court at 4.38pm and the justices came back with their ruling at 5.18pm. “It’s just unbelievable that they examined the pleadings and got eight judges to concur in half an hour on a Monday afternoon,” she said.



    its the republicans who dont want it preserved


    WHY????

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    Election oversight[edit]
    (See also: Elections in Alabama)
    Voter access[edit]
    A 2016 study of the content and quality of Alabama's county voting and election websites found statewide problems with information they provide voters. Their evaluation of the relationship between voting systems and "demographic, socioeconomic, partisan, and participatory composition" of counties showed "limited voting and election information and are not in full compliance with accessibility, usability, and mobile readiness standards. Further, the extent to which voting and elections information is provided, is related to county composition."[7]
    Voter ID[edit]
    Merrill defended Alabama's 2011 law requiring Voter ID. But in a 2016 U.S. Court of Appeals decision the law was determined to be unconstitutional in response to a lawsuit by The League of Women Voters, and, blocked the law, which Alabama passed without federal approval. The law had required voters to furnish proof of citizenship when registering at the polls in an effort to prevent voter fraud, though some research finds the incidence of voter fraud is nearly non-existent.[8][9][10] The decision effectively struck down a rule that required voters in Alabama to provide proof they are United States citizens. Elsewhere, voters only need swear that they are citizens in order to cast a ballot.
    Merrill applauded the 2013 Shelby County v. Holder[11] decision by the U.S. Supreme Court limiting federal poll monitors at state polling locations. However civil rights groups have protested them. The Greater Birmingham Ministries and the NAACP Legal Defense Fund filed a lawsuit in December 2015 saying the voter ID law is an "unfair barrier for voters who lack a valid photo ID and the resources or transportation necessary to get one." The law, they said, effectively obstructs many black and Hispanic citizens from voting.[citation needed] The Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law said the "rolls back legislation that courageous Americans fought so hard for, even giving their lives in many cases, to ensure that all citizens can participate in our democracy. Today's decision threatens the promise of equal access to the ballot – especially when the majority of voters of color who voted last year, 65.8 percent, live in states covered by the Section 4 formula." According to the Advancement Project: "Threatens the promise of equal access to the ballot – especially when the majority of voters of color who voted last year, (2012) 65.8 percent, live in states (including Alabama) covered by (the law's provisions)." And, that "We have essentially lost an effective tool today to stave off voter suppression this year."[12]
    Poll monitoring[edit]
    Merrill was one of a coalition of U.S. leaders who traveled with Operation for Security and Cooperation in Europe, to Russia to monitor parliamentary polls there in September 2016.[13] While Merrill observed Russia’s apparent “free and fair” voting procedures, the report to which he and others contributed found "serious irregularities during voting" and worse problems in ballot counting.[13]





    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Merrill_(politician)


    John Harold Merrill (born November 12, 1963) is an American politician serving as the 53rd and current Secretary of State of Alabama since 2015. He is a member of the Republican Party.

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    Impossible they would destroy records before the results were certified by the sec of state.

    Bullshit fake news. So Republican

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    Right wing fascists are crying in their soup and grasping at straws. Pathetic.

    Tell ya what....let Siegelman out of jail, and you can recount until doomsday. Otherwise, STFU!
    During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.

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    "Further, the extent to which voting and elections information is provided, is related to county composition."




    that means a study of elections under this republicans found that they provided less information about voting in CERTAIN districts.


    want to bet its the black voting districts?


    no wonder they dont want to savev the information

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