Turley's take about the expected indictment.
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Thus far, the focus has been on the controversial call that Trump had with Georgia officials a call widely cited as indisputable evidence of an effort at voting fraud. Yet, the call was similar to a settlement discussion, as state officials and the Trump team hashed out their differences and a Trump demand for a statewide recount. Trump had lost the state by less than 12,000 votes. That might be what he meant when he stated, "I just want to find 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have because we won the state."
While others have portrayed the statement as a raw call for fabricating the votes, it seems more likely that Trump was swatting back claims that there was no value to a statewide recount by pointing out that he wouldn't have to find a statistically high number of votes to change the outcome of the election. It is telling that many politicians and pundits refuse to even acknowledge that obvious alternate meaning.
Seems reasonable within the context of a state wide recount, doesn't it?
Now as Coffee County, he continues:
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There have also been stories indicating that Willis is focusing on connections of Trump team members like Rudy Giuliani to a "breach" of the voting system on Jan. 7, 2021. The team was seeking access to the voting machines to show that they could be compromised or manipulated. Text messages state that the team secured an "invitation" to examine the machines in Coffee County.
That "invitation" was reportedly from a Coffee County elections official, who also reportedly claimed, incorrectly, that votes could be "easily" flipped from Trump to Biden.
Coffee County was also discussed as an example of voting irregularities to justify a proposed draft executive order to seize voting machines. However, that order was never sent out.
Actually, Turley is wrong about the votes being flipped. They can be during the adjudication process. That's a feature not a flaw of Dominion's system supposedly to be used for spoiled or otherwise damaged ballots, Braille and military ballots. Why my jaw dropped when Fulton County election official Barron said 140,000 ballots hade been "adjudicated" during the "recount." That would have been an extraordinary number of spoiled, damaged, etc ballots in one county. Maybe he just misspoke but maybe he didn't.
Also note the date, January 7, 2021, after the Georgia runoff. Noithing was effected by the review. And Coffee County had problems with the tabulators showing a QR CODE FAILURE as a message and jamming them only for ballots that had the Republicans selected in that runoff. How that "glitch" was resolved was very suspicious, indeed and worried the election officials who were present.
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The problem is that these messages also apparently refer to "voluntary access" and that may have been what was conveyed to Trump. One message reads: "Most immediately, we were just granted access by written invitation! to Coffee County's systems. Yay!"
Yet, the Coffee County allegations highlight another risk in the Georgia prosecution. There are clearly a number of people beyond Trump who are being targeted, including his lawyers Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell. Indictments can unnerve associates who lack the money or support of Trump. That can lead to flipping key figures to offer state evidence.
The greatest challenge for Georgia is to offer a discernible limiting principle on when challenges in close elections are permissible and when they are criminal. There is a relatively short period between the presidential election in November and counting of electoral votes in January. That means that challenges are often made on incomplete data or unresolved allegations. Generally, candidates are suing election officials who control the machines, data, and other evidence needed to make a case. They often (as they did in 2020) resist demands for access to evidence.
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It is important for campaigns to seek judicial review of election challenges without fear of prosecution. Some Democratic lawyers after 2020 made their own controversial (and unsuccessful) allegations of machines flipping or altering election outcomes. No one suggested that they should be criminally charged or disbarred.
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