Dodgy Dominion? Voting machines mentioned to CRASH throughout Georgia recount, as court docket orders officers to not wipe knowledge

Georgia’s vote recount was reportedly halted by a Dominion Voting Techniques server crash. In the meantime, a choose ordered officers to not wipe knowledge from Dominion gadgets forward of a potential “forensic investigation” into fraud claims.

After a statewide recount affirmed Joe Biden’s 12,000-vote win over Donald Trump, the president requested one other recount by hand final week, alleging unlawful ballots helped Biden squeak out a victory within the Peach State. With the tally ongoing, counting in Fulton County, the place Atlanta is situated, was halted on Sunday when a server, obtained from Dominion Voting Techniques, crashed. 

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“Technicians from Dominion have been dispatched to resolve the problem,” Fulton County officers mentioned in a press release to native media, including that “the Georgia Secretary of State’s workplace has additionally been alerted to the problem.”

Dominion is a foreign-owned firm whose voting machines are utilized in 28 US states. Within the aftermath of this month’s disputed election, Trump and various Republicans accused the agency of enabling outsiders to “glitch” votes in favor of Biden.

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Dominion’s safety vulnerabilities are effectively documented, together with within the person manuals enclosed with the machines. Simply final yr, a bunch of distinguished Democrats, together with Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren, warned Dominion’s machines have been “vulnerable to safety issues,” together with “switching votes,” “undisclosed vulnerabilities” and outcomes that “threaten the integrity of our elections.”

These allegations play a starring function in a lawsuit filed final week by former Trump marketing campaign lawyer Sidney Powell, who remains to be looking for to overturn Biden’s obvious win in Georgia as a freelancer. Powell’s swimsuit alleges Dominion’s machines have been designed to “cover its manipulation of votes from any audit,” and that Georgia Governor Brian Kemp knew this when he awarded the agency a contract to produce voting machines to his state final yr.

In a minor victory for Powell and co-lawyer Lin Wooden, a choose in Georgia granted a brief injunction on Sunday night time forbidding election officers from wiping knowledge from Dominion machines, pending a potential “forensic inspection.” The choose beforehand issued an analogous order, which was efficiently challenged by Kemp and Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger.

“Sidney Powell @SidneyPowell1 & I received, then misplaced, however ended up profitable. We’ll by no means surrender the pursuit of TRUTH to attain justice,” Wooden tweeted after the injunction was granted.

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Dominion responded to Powell and Wooden’s lawsuit by accusing the 2 attorneys of spinning a “weird election fraud conspiracy.” The voting firm mentioned the allegations towards it are “baseless, mindless, bodily unattainable, and unsupported by any proof in any respect,” and that its expertise is “the gold customary for clear and accountable voting tools.”

After the state’s first recount, Kemp signed the paperwork awarding Georgia’s 16 electoral votes to Biden. Trump has so far refused to acknowledge Biden’s win in Georgia, or nationally, however advised reporters on Thursday that ought to the Electoral Faculty declare the previous vp the winner when it meets in December, he would “actually” go away workplace.

Nonetheless, the embattled president mentioned a day later that “Biden can solely enter the White Home as President if he can show that his ridiculous ‘80,000,000 votes’ weren’t fraudulently or illegally obtained.”

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