Georgia election officials deny evidence destruction

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press

Kate Brumback, Associated Press
Updated 3:52 pm CDT, Wednesday, July 31, 2019

ATLANTA (AP) — Lawyers for Georgia election officials are rejecting as frivolous allegations that their clients destroyed evidence in a case challenging the state's outdated election system.

Election integrity advocates and individual Georgia voters sued election officials, saying the voting machines the state has used since 2002 are unsecure and vulnerable to hacking. In a court filing Thursday, they said the state began destroying evidence within days of the suit's filing in 2017 and has continued to do so as the case moved forward.

Responding in a court filing Tuesday, lawyers for state election officials called those allegations "a desperate attempt to distract the Court and the public from the complete lack of evidence of an actual compromise of Georgia's election system."

The state's election system came under national scrutiny last year during the closely watched gubernatorial election in which Republican Brian Kemp, who was the state's top election official at the time, narrowly beat Democrat Stacey Abrams.

Read more: https://www.chron.com/news/us/article/Georgia-election-officials-reject-deny-evidence-14269910.php

[diva77]

1. K&R for exposure

GOP will keep stonewalling and lying until plaintiffs run out of money to sue.

[Duppers]

2. And they have some Deep Pockets.

The GOP I mean.

[cstanleytech]

3. Generally speaking I thought the willful destruction of evidence during an ongoing court case was a

criminal act no matter how you tried to sugar coat it?

[questionseverything]

5. here is some bacground on this case

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100212332950

[bucolic_frolic]

4. How do you know the evidence never existed?

'cuz it ain't here no more'