I am assuming. But I would say draft a truthful, well reasoned motion with the legal sections that allows the AG to withdraw in particular circumstances. I dont know who all the parties are, but something egregious like this, I would think the Court would sympathize, and would give the evidence destroying party X number of days to appear with a retained lawyer.
Give me a break. There are massive intentional and unintentional fuck-ups and institutional disenfranchisement every election because we donât have uniform standards for the election of public officials and legislators. We are the only âdemocracyâ that I know of that has such a mess of an election process.
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We have no problem with them here in Washington or in Oregon. And if youâre moving around a lot, you need to re-register any way, no?
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Well that weâre aware of. Mail in ballots are much more vulnerable to vote coercion and manipulation- think husbands and wives voting at the kitchen table, or someone helping nursing home residents to vote. They boost participation but theyâre not really secret ballots.
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Kemp, who is running for governor in 2018, has denied ordering the data destruction or knowing about it in advance. His officeâs general counsel issued a two-page report on Monday claiming Kennesaw State officials followed âstandard IT practicesâ in wiping the server that âwere not undertaken to delete evidence.â In its initial statement on the server wiping on Oct. 26, Kempâs office called KSUâs wiping of the server reckless, inexcusable and inept.
Which is it? Make up your mind. This does not pass the smell test.
Silly me, I backup my PC once a week automatically on an external hard drive. You know, just in case I might need to replace any lost information. In the IT world, backups are a part of the Holy Grail. Wiping that server clean is tantamount to destroying evidence. Canât wait to see this tap dance.
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You have to re-register in time to have the ballot addressed and mailed to your new address. If you donât do that in time, you donât get the ballot - and Iâm sure thereâs some procedure that comes into play but meanwhile a ballot has gone to the wrong place. (Many, if not most jurisdictions allow you to update your new address at the polling station when you vote.)
There are always going to be trade-offs with any rule. Mail-in seems to work really well in Oregon, but in a population of highly mobile or marginally housed persons itâs going to be a significant barrier, even more than registration - and we all have seen how that has been used to disenfranchise voters.
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My goodness, why isnât this a bigger story?
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Best way to do elections, imo, is to use paper ballots, lock up all the precinct voting places after the polls close, precinct workers hand count the ballots (overseen by reps of all parties) and the results are hand-carried to the counties and on to the state capitols.
This is how it worked for ages in many, if not all, states until we decided we have no capacity for delayed gratification and need to know right damn now who/what wins/passes and we implemented all this fraud friendly computerized voting nonsense.
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âThe attorney general withdrew from supporting the election officials. How could he defend when the record was wiped?â
And we just got a fascinating look at a prosecutor forcing an attorney to testify against her clients âŚ
The client has left himself high and dry by asking the lawyer to participate in deceiving the court.
Generally, the ethical obligation of the attorney is to withdraw while telling the Court why he has to in the most general terms possible.
http://www.greene-broillet.com/content/images/van-gelder-lying-client.pdf
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