It has been reported by ConservativeBrief that a Pennsylvania court has issued a major victory for accountability and transparency in U.S. elections.
“The Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania has ruled in favor of The Amistad Project and Fulton County, Pennsylvania, allowing the county to send its Dominion voting machines to the State Senate for inspection on January 10,” the group stated in a press release.
“The court recognized that it was improper to demand that the county – which owns the machines, and has the responsibility of running the election along with the legislature – can’t determine whether the machines worked properly,” said Phill Kline, director of The Amistad Project, the non-profit group that filed the lawsuit. “As the judge noted, there’s no justification for preventing the county from looking at their own machines.”
Pennsylvania’s attorney general and secretary of state, both Democrats, sued to block the inspection.
The inspection was originally scheduled for December 22, but Commonwealth Court Judge Mary Hannah Leavitt held that it must be allowed to proceed, “with a short delay to allow experts from both sides to come up with a formal protocol for the inspection.”
“Executive branch officials were trying to stop the inspection altogether, but the judge did not grant their emergency motion to stop the inspection,” explained Amistad Project attorney Tom King. “They did not go to court seeking a delay; they sought to stop it, and they lost.”
“The court recognized that it was improper to demand that the county – which owns the machines and has the responsibility of running the election along with the legislature – can’t determine whether the machines worked properly,” Amistad Project Director Phill Kline said.
In a separate case, a federal judge in Denver delivered an ultimatum in a case against Dominion Voting System. Judge Philip Brimmer, who is overseeing a case alleging racketeering against Dominion Voting Systems, told the plaintiffs they must document their residency before the case can move forward.
