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5. In final-hour order, court rules that Alabama can destroy digital voting records after all

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Tue Dec 12, 2017, 05:34 PM

Dec 2017

In final-hour order, court rules that Alabama can destroy digital voting records after all

Updated 11:29 AM; Posted 11:22 AM

By Connor Sheets csheets@al.com

Alabama is allowed to destroy digital voting records created at the polls during today's U.S. Senate election after all.

At 1:36 p.m. Monday, a Montgomery County Circuit Court judge issued an order directing Alabama election officials to preserve all digital ballot images created at polling places across the state today.

But at 4:32 p.m. Monday, attorneys for Alabama Secretary of State John Merrill and Ed Packard, the state administrator of elections, filed an "emergency motion to stay" that order, which the state Supreme Court granted minutes after Merrill and Packard's motion was filed.

By granting the stay, the court effectively told the state that it does not in fact have to preserve the digital ballot images - essentially digitized versions of the paper ballots voters fill out at the voting booth - created today.

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Judge orders Alabama not to destroy voting records in Tuesday's Senate election [View all] mahatmakanejeeves Dec 2017 OP

How is that not S. O. P. ??? Roland99 Dec 2017 #1

Would that it were so simple Xipe Totec Dec 2017 #2

What is Alabama's history of compliance with voting rights? dragonlady Dec 2017 #4

That anyone should have to be ordered... 3catwoman3 Dec 2017 #3

In final-hour order, court rules that Alabama can destroy digital voting records after all mahatmakanejeeves Dec 2017 #5