Wait a minute.

So the Sidney Powell “kraken” lawsuit in Georgia is ALSO a Lin Wood lawsuit?

Lin Wood, who was told a week ago by a federal judge that claims contained in his prior recent lawsuit on election fraud had “no basis in fact or law”...?

Ain’t that some shit. #gapol

Before you trolls get on here, don’t worry: I’m going to spend part of this weekend reading the affidavits — and will report back on the highlights.

Stay tuned.

First thoughts: This lawsuit really trashes top Republicans @GovKemp and @GaSecofState —

Such as, it accuses them of “rushing” to purchase a voting system in cahoots with Hugo Chavez (who is, yes, a socialist ... but also dead as a door nail since 2013.) #gapol

HOWEVER — The Lin Wood/Sidney Powell suit also alleges Georgia’s voting machines “were connected to the internet in violation of professional standards and state and federal law.”

More to come on this point later. #gapol

“As explained and demonstrated in the accompanying redacted declaration of a former electronic intelligence analyst under 305th Military Intelligence with experience gathering SAM missile system electronic intelligence....”

What the fuck sort of introductory clause is that?

All right, let’s dig in:

The biggest allegation so far is “at least 96,000 absentee ballots” were hacked and swapped with ill intent by nefarious villains —

Such is described in an affidavit by Dallas resident and self-described NASA/MIT staffer, Russell James Ramsland, Jr.

In a 12-page affidavit, Mr. Ramsdale explains how sensitive files from Georgia’s voting software “can be easily obtained on the dark web” ....

But — Mr. Ramsdale does not then proceed to show evidence beyond his own firm’s conjecture and modeling of any such dark-web tactics.

Next, Mr. Ramsdale presents written summary of what he claims to be statistical models predicting what vote tallies POTUS-elect Biden “should” have received —

But does then not explain any coherent methodology for arriving at alleged data anomalies to these “should” predictions.

To be fair, Mr. Ramsdale raises an interesting idea about uncertainty involving the machines’ lack of a “real-time audit log” —

Unfortunately, he then goes on to undermine his main point by blaming “rogue actors” from “Iran and China among others” for all our woes in Georgia.

Moving on —

The Wood/Powell suit next devotes a graf to blaming “Georgia’s election officials and poll workers” for having “exacerbated or helped” flip votes to Biden by means of the nefarious Hugo Chavez dark-web machines.

.... what the fuck?

There’s then 3 pages on Georgia’s absentee-verification “settlement agreement,” relative to an argument made by Lin Wood that Judge Grimberg thoroughly rejected last week.

Read about it here: http://capitol-beat.org/2020/11/judge-halts-move-by-trump-backed-attorney-to-block-election-results-in-georgia/

Having reached page 35 of this 104-page Lin Wood/Sidney Powell lawsuit, the grammatical errors and linguistic hyperbole have become so exhausting that I’m just gonna skip straight to the affidavits (if that’s okay with you).

First up, there’s a 33-page affidavit analyzing absentee ballots by a Mr. William Briggs — 1/3 of which pages entail solely his resume.

The rest is jargon, muddled datasets, silly conflation, and just plain nonsense (in this reader’s opinion).

The next affidavit is some goddamn thing involving a Venezuelan “conspiracy” and dumbfounding amounts of redacted text:

Here’s an affidavit from a Coalition for Good Governance member describing alleged “scanning delays” irregularities with “test ballots” —

Your thoughts on all this, @MarilynRMarks1?

With this story, there’s a temptation to outright dismiss the Lin Wood/Sidney Powell’s lawsuit’s claims —

However, some affidavits plunge into plausible detail — BUT, the problem is a reliance on expert theory, analyzing pre-election “testing” — not actual fraud evidence.

The Gist:

Nearly 1/3 of the 30ish affidavits talk about the Dominion machines — in Georgia, Pennsylvania, and Venezuela.

Most of those look like boilerplate language from aggrieved industry competitors seeking to thrust clout in Congress for monopoly-busting:

Another affidavit batch deals with experts who attest system vulnerabilities, but seem to lack real evidence beyond conjecture as informed by outside analysis.

One of these is a crazy damn thing about “kurtosis” and “platykurtic” things and how “the distribution lacks a ‘tail’.”

The rest (about 10 affidavits of the total 30ish) describe grievances from poll monitors during the recount.

One gripes about “perfect bubbles.”

Another, about “lying”.

A third notes an issue that recount workers were alerted to ... then just fixed the problem. Period.