Federal law requires election officials to "maintain and preserve" all ballots and related election

[Atticus]

documents for 22 months after the election. "Maintaining and preserving" requires maintaining a "chain of custody", which means, in plain terms, being able to document where the ballots were AT ALL TIMES and in whose custody and control they were AT ALL TIMES.

Not only have the election officials in Arizona failed to maintain a chain of custody, they have apparently allowed some ballots to be taken to a "secret" location in Montana.

I have just one question: when do these clowns get arrested and prosecuted?

[spanone]

1. K&R

[stillcool]

2. this part is an out...I think

https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title52-section20701&num=0&edition=prelim

if a State or the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico designates a custodian to retain and preserve these records and papers at a specified place, then such records and papers may be deposited with such custodian, and the duty to retain and preserve any record or paper so deposited shall devolve upon such custodian

[Atticus]

5. I am not aware that Arizona "designated a custodian". IF they did, then that custodian

should be prosecuted.

Further question: is there not some duty to select only COMPETENT custodians" or is the totally inexperienced and politically biased "Cyber Ninja" fine and dandy? Could their selection as "custodian" be, in itself, a failure to "maintain and preserve"?

[ananda]

3. Reeps just get away with SO much these days.

It's like justice has fallen into a black hole or something.

[soothsayer]

4. Don't worry, they took copies of the data out of state

They probably lost the originals

[RainCaster]

6. Arizona ballots are tainted- they can no longer be used as evidence of anything except...

... the complicity and stupidity of the GOP.

[Atticus]

7. And, their voting machines have now been irretrievably compromised and will

have to be replaced. All because a handful of shameless whiners felt compelled to throw a tantrum in front of the TV cameras.

Some of those directly involved in this shit show should be sued for the price of the machines that must be replaced. Would a Maricopa taxpayer have standing?