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Akiva Cohen

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#Squidigation news: @DemocracyDocket has posted the Georgia transcript. So let's do a live read

https://www.democracydocket.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/45/2020/11/20-11-29-Pearson-v-Kemp-120cv4809-F-1.pdf

The first 2 pages of transcript are intros/is everyone ok on Zoom. Then we get to this ... which is not a good sign if you're the party asking for the TRO

Powell's response is "We'd like you to issue that first draft order that you circulated to the parties and my co-counsel posted to Twitter as though it had been issued"

I paraphrase. But not much.

Gotta again pause here to talk about how absolutely bat-shit insane this argument is. Not just substantively, but in terms of internal logic. The election was held November 3. The hearing was held 26 days later, on November 29.

Their argument is that the voting software system "can be easily altered" and their core claim is that the voting software *was in fact hacked* to cook the results, as part of a wide-ranging international conspiracy.

A wide-ranging international conspiracy that then ... what?

Just left the electronic evidence sitting around for several weeks on those easily accessible systems they already had backdoor access to? For, I suppose, funsies?

What?

OK, sorry. Back to the transcript.

The Judge wants to know if granting the relief Sidney is asking for will cause any practical problems.

The state says "hell yes, we need to use those machines in a few days" [today, actually]

They get into a little back and forth about which elections are coming up. Then Willard (GA's attorney) points out that Sidney hasn't even properly served and noticed everyone they need to serve, issues you might remember from such films as Wisconsin: The Kraken Cuts the Cheese

Batten then says "look, I understand you want more time, but I need to squeeze you given the schedule" - explains why he was so pissed that SidLin ran off and claimed everything was stayed - and focuses back on the practicalities: Why not just allow a quick inspection?