re: Kari Lake Election Contest TRIAL! Viva & Barnes Live Commentary

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However - If I’m Captain Longhair - I sit down.

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Did the cyber security guy end up explaining that in copying/transposing a 19" image ballot to a 20" ballot for tabulation, the process is done by hand and consequently a vulnerability/opportunity for fraud?

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He said concretely that there was absolutely no way the "shrink to fit" option could be done by accident with their setup.

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Her point, which she isn’t a lawyer so she can’t make it - is that the lack of chain of custody creates an inference that votes were intentionally unlawfully inserted.

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That may be the lawyer point, but the system / control point is the reason chain of custody is required is so that injections into the system cannot happen without visibility.

It's like complaining that there is no evidence of broken glass when the windows themselves have been removed from the building.

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Her point, which she isn’t a lawyer so she can’t make it - is that the lack of chain of custody creates an inference that votes were intentionally unlawfully inserted.

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I think the theme is that Slingblade was used to say there were ballots counted which were illegal by default due to size. Her testimony sets the timeframe within the process where this could possibly occur (thus giving legitimacy to their existence as being counted).

Can anyone breakdown whats going on?

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Can anyone breakdown whats going on?

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Hobbs's attorney pronounces correct like "crekt" - which if I was the judge, would be enough for me to order a revote.

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Russell Brand now testifying

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He looks a lot like the guy doing commentary.

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Second witness was great, but I think it went on too long. She talked about the lack of chain of custody

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I agree it makes sense to count the number of ballots you send so they can balance against that number when they get there. Of course, if you are worried about people monkeying with stuff, then they still could even with that. They could remove ballots and replace with ones that you know voted the way you wish. In other words, if you are dealing in hypotheticals, then even knowing the count when they leave won’t matter.

The bigger issue here though is does the county have to count the ballots before they leave the local precinct by law or by approved process. In other words, are they required to do this and didn’t? If so, that would seem to be an issue. If not and they followed their process as laid out before the election, then Lake is fighting uphill. I don’t see any way a judge throws out an election when the county follows their policies and procedures. You may not like them, but that’s a matter of policy and is a political matter and not a judicial one after the fact.

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She did have testimony about how reconciliation is very important but I can’t remember if they produced evidence of the reconciliations or how they were done. Her larger point was that they produced no chain of custody documents so there was no way to perform the reconciliation

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So is reconciling required by law or by policies and procedures or is it something she says is important but that’s a personal viewpoint?

Do you see what I’m saying? In a perfect world, reconciliation and chain of custody may be great; however, if we are simply dealing with a flawed process here and not a violation of law, no judge is going to get involved in that. The only exception I would think is if this procedure is so over the top bad that he has to step in. If this is the procedure they have used previously though, I would be surprised if that’s the case.

I don’t Know if it’s required by statute. I see What you’re saying.

My problem with all of this - including 2020 - is that nobody ever seems to do reconciliations, and/or ignores the results of reconciliations