GA Case

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:“While reporters were preoccupied with the spicier allegations threatening to derail the Fulton County DA’s case, the little-watched three-and-a-half-week trial revealed new information about the scope of the plot to take voting system software in Georgia by election deniers, and the jaw-dropping lack of action by Secretary of State Raffensperger to respond.

During the trial the plaintiffs presented substantial evidence showing that anyone paying attention would have noticed something was quite amiss in Coffee County, and that should have triggered an investigation by Raffensperger’s office, but didn’t.

But the trial also revealed new information about attempts to gain access to Georgia’s voting machines in other counties. Plaintiffs revealed an email chain that showed that the election supervisor in Butts County had been contacted by Georgia’s (now) Lt. Gov. Burt Jones, requesting a forensic examination of the county’s voting software. (Willis’ criminal investigation of Jones was derailed when she was disqualified from the case by a conflict of interest.) Bartow County’s election supervisor testified that he’d been asked by his local GOP chair—and several unidentified attorneys—for access to copy his county’s election software. He replied with a hard no, and reported it to the secretary of state’s office.

Plaintiffs also presented a text message from a former member of the Coffee County Board of Elections to the attorney for neighboring Ware County, with a link to a story from the Gateway Pundit. The story claimed that the Trump team had obtained a voting machine from Ware, and the message said, “You have anyone to verify through?” The Ware county attorney responds, “I will verify,” and responds with a jpeg labeled “ware-county-confirmation,” but the actual image was never provided to the plaintiffs, and can’t be viewed.

And yet, even with multiple attempts to access voting systems, which the secretary was alerted to, witnesses from the secretary’s office testified that there was no investigation opened into any of these events.”

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/03/trump-infiltrate-voting-machines-georgia-2020.html

Holy crap. Georgia's GOP criminality just keeps getting worse and worse.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wade resigned. Done deal.

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/03/15/us/fani-willis-trump-georgia

I can't even remember the last time a Republican resigned this quickly and willingly as a result of a scandal despite the ridiculous number of scandals. It's been decades since a Republican did the right thing.

Because it was ordered by the court and super-embarrassing in public

[Anonymous]

Judge pushed the can down the road to save himself. Georgia legislature and legal oversight boards will now need to clean up the mess.

Still the case against Trump is now done.

[Anonymous]

No it isn't. It can and will go forward, even if, God Forbid, that orange pusspile gets elected by his brain-dead voters. He will be convicted and sentenced to jail.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wade resigned. Done deal.

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/03/15/us/fani-willis-trump-georgia

I can't even remember the last time a Republican resigned this quickly and willingly as a result of a scandal despite the ridiculous number of scandals. It's been decades since a Republican did the right thing.

He didn't have a choice. He had to resign. Fani certainly wasn't.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Judge pushed the can down the road to save himself. Georgia legislature and legal oversight boards will now need to clean up the mess.

Still the case against Trump is now done.

I don’t think it is. You should be asking yourself why the whole government is expected to protect a man beyond the protection the rest of us get from the Constitution. If he’s innocent, let him get exonerated in court.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No it isn't. It can and will go forward, even if, God Forbid, that orange pusspile gets elected by his brain-dead voters. He will be convicted and sentenced to jail.

Wade had to resign, Willis will be impeached or disbarred. It is over.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wade resigned. Done deal.

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/03/15/us/fani-willis-trump-georgia

I can't even remember the last time a Republican resigned this quickly and willingly as a result of a scandal despite the ridiculous number of scandals. It's been decades since a Republican did the right thing.

Because it was ordered by the court and super-embarrassing in public

So? Republicans *coughTRUMPcough* routinely ignore things that are super-embarrassing and/or ordered by the court....

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:“While reporters were preoccupied with the spicier allegations threatening to derail the Fulton County DA’s case, the little-watched three-and-a-half-week trial revealed new information about the scope of the plot to take voting system software in Georgia by election deniers, and the jaw-dropping lack of action by Secretary of State Raffensperger to respond.

During the trial the plaintiffs presented substantial evidence showing that anyone paying attention would have noticed something was quite amiss in Coffee County, and that should have triggered an investigation by Raffensperger’s office, but didn’t.

But the trial also revealed new information about attempts to gain access to Georgia’s voting machines in other counties. Plaintiffs revealed an email chain that showed that the election supervisor in Butts County had been contacted by Georgia’s (now) Lt. Gov. Burt Jones, requesting a forensic examination of the county’s voting software. (Willis’ criminal investigation of Jones was derailed when she was disqualified from the case by a conflict of interest.) Bartow County’s election supervisor testified that he’d been asked by his local GOP chair—and several unidentified attorneys—for access to copy his county’s election software. He replied with a hard no, and reported it to the secretary of state’s office.

Plaintiffs also presented a text message from a former member of the Coffee County Board of Elections to the attorney for neighboring Ware County, with a link to a story from the Gateway Pundit. The story claimed that the Trump team had obtained a voting machine from Ware, and the message said, “You have anyone to verify through?” The Ware county attorney responds, “I will verify,” and responds with a jpeg labeled “ware-county-confirmation,” but the actual image was never provided to the plaintiffs, and can’t be viewed.

And yet, even with multiple attempts to access voting systems, which the secretary was alerted to, witnesses from the secretary’s office testified that there was no investigation opened into any of these events.”

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/03/trump-infiltrate-voting-machines-georgia-2020.html

If the state refused to step in and deal with this multi-county criminality between the Trump campaign and county elections officials then DoJ needs to step up immediately - and it also needs an investigation into why the state refused - were they complicit in the scheme?

[Anonymous]

What authority does the court have to order Wade to resign? If he found, based on the evidence presented, the standard to force Fani off the case was not met, how can he tell her who she has to hire? I agree there were ethics rules (and perhaps state criminal ones) violated and that Wade should have resigned as soon as this came out but that is not for the judge to say and those standards were not in front of him - only whether she benefitted financially and that harmed the defendants.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What authority does the court have to order Wade to resign? If he found, based on the evidence presented, the standard to force Fani off the case was not met, how can he tell her who she has to hire? I agree there were ethics rules (and perhaps state criminal ones) violated and that Wade should have resigned as soon as this came out but that is not for the judge to say and those standards were not in front of him - only whether she benefitted financially and that harmed the defendants.

The court is in charge of the case. If Willis doesn’t comply with his order she’s in contempt.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What authority does the court have to order Wade to resign? If he found, based on the evidence presented, the standard to force Fani off the case was not met, how can he tell her who she has to hire? I agree there were ethics rules (and perhaps state criminal ones) violated and that Wade should have resigned as soon as this came out but that is not for the judge to say and those standards were not in front of him - only whether she benefitted financially and that harmed the defendants.

The court didn't order Wade to resign.
The court gave her a choice. It was either Wade or Willis. We all know that Willis is to arrogant to step down... so, Wade it was.
She has destroyed her credibility.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What authority does the court have to order Wade to resign? If he found, based on the evidence presented, the standard to force Fani off the case was not met, how can he tell her who she has to hire? I agree there were ethics rules (and perhaps state criminal ones) violated and that Wade should have resigned as soon as this came out but that is not for the judge to say and those standards were not in front of him - only whether she benefitted financially and that harmed the defendants.

The court didn't order Wade to resign.
The court gave her a choice. It was either Wade or Willis. We all know that Willis is to arrogant to step down... so, Wade it was.
She has destroyed her credibility.

Roman and Trump and the rest certainly hope so. It isn't so.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wade resigned. Done deal.

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/03/15/us/fani-willis-trump-georgia

I can't even remember the last time a Republican resigned this quickly and willingly as a result of a scandal despite the ridiculous number of scandals. It's been decades since a Republican did the right thing.

Because it was ordered by the court and super-embarrassing in public

So? Republicans *coughTRUMPcough* routinely ignore things that are super-embarrassing and/or ordered by the court....

Are you saying Trump sets the standards, and it's expected that others are okay to follow?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:“While reporters were preoccupied with the spicier allegations threatening to derail the Fulton County DA’s case, the little-watched three-and-a-half-week trial revealed new information about the scope of the plot to take voting system software in Georgia by election deniers, and the jaw-dropping lack of action by Secretary of State Raffensperger to respond.

During the trial the plaintiffs presented substantial evidence showing that anyone paying attention would have noticed something was quite amiss in Coffee County, and that should have triggered an investigation by Raffensperger’s office, but didn’t.

But the trial also revealed new information about attempts to gain access to Georgia’s voting machines in other counties. Plaintiffs revealed an email chain that showed that the election supervisor in Butts County had been contacted by Georgia’s (now) Lt. Gov. Burt Jones, requesting a forensic examination of the county’s voting software. (Willis’ criminal investigation of Jones was derailed when she was disqualified from the case by a conflict of interest.) Bartow County’s election supervisor testified that he’d been asked by his local GOP chair—and several unidentified attorneys—for access to copy his county’s election software. He replied with a hard no, and reported it to the secretary of state’s office.

Plaintiffs also presented a text message from a former member of the Coffee County Board of Elections to the attorney for neighboring Ware County, with a link to a story from the Gateway Pundit. The story claimed that the Trump team had obtained a voting machine from Ware, and the message said, “You have anyone to verify through?” The Ware county attorney responds, “I will verify,” and responds with a jpeg labeled “ware-county-confirmation,” but the actual image was never provided to the plaintiffs, and can’t be viewed.

And yet, even with multiple attempts to access voting systems, which the secretary was alerted to, witnesses from the secretary’s office testified that there was no investigation opened into any of these events.”

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/03/trump-infiltrate-voting-machines-georgia-2020.html

If the state refused to step in and deal with this multi-county criminality between the Trump campaign and county elections officials then DoJ needs to step up immediately - and it also needs an investigation into why the state refused - were they complicit in the scheme?

What exactly was the scheme?