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Alabama Supreme Court Okays Destruction of Digital Voting Records

"Four Alabama voters sued in an effort to get ballot images preserved, according to AL.com, arguing that state and federal law requires election officials to preserve the digital ballot images for six months. In Alabama, the digital images are typically destroyed after an election.

“After hearing arguments and reviewing the filings, it appears that Plaintiffs and similarly situated voters would suffer irreparable and immediate harm if digital ballot images are not preserved,” Montgomery County Circuit Judge Roman Ashley Shaul wrote in his order requiring ballot images to be preserved.

However, the state Supreme Court overruled his decision, which Verified Voting says will limit the state’s ability to do election audits or catch hacking attempts.
“If every state’s election systems provided voter-verified paper ballots and post-election audits, we would be able to detect and correct errors or election tampering. But without the proper procedures in place, Alabama will be unable to do this,” Schneider said".

https://gizmodo.com/alabama-supreme-court-okays-destruction-of-digital-voti-1821223685\

Alabama Supreme Court blocks order to preserve digital voting records
https://techcrunch.com/2017/12/12/alabama-digital-records-vote-roy-moore/

In final-hour order, court rules that Alabama can destroy digital voting records after all
http://www.al.com/news/index.ssf/2017/12/in_final-hour_order_court_rule.html