Michigan Secretary of State asks judge to excuse her from deposition in election fraud lawsuit
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In this Sept. 24, 2020, photo, Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson speaks in Detroit. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya, File)AP
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Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson last week asked a judge to excuse her from a May 24 deposition in an ongoing election fraud lawsuit.
The lawsuit stems from Nov. 3 Antrim County election results that were initially reported incorrectly to reflect President Joe Biden won in the Republican-leaning county. It was later discovered that tabulation machines reported incorrect numbers due to clerical errors and the results were quickly corrected to show former President Donald Trump actually won the county.
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Ex-Trump attorney Sidney Powell’s weekslong campaign to invalidate the results of the 2020 election was not based in fact, her lawyers said Monday. “No reasonable person would conclude that the statements were truly statements of fact,” Powell’s attorneys said in a court filing defending her against a billion-dollar defamation lawsuit from Dominion Voting Systems, the manufacturer of the election equipment she claimed was involved in.
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The Jan. 6 insurrection defendants are beginning to confront the legal system and formulate defenses for their conduct, and many of them are repenting, in a fashion.
Not so in the broader political setting of the Republican Party, where the big lie that President Biden stole the election still reigns.
Last week, Anthony Antonio, charged with five counts including violent entry, disorderly conduct and impeding law enforcement during civil disorder, advanced a newfangled defense in a preliminary hearing: “Foxitis.”
Antonio’s lawyer told the judge that his client lost his job and fell into a steady diet of Fox News TV, eventually succumbing to the network’s persistent lies about a stolen election: “He became hooked with what I call ‘Foxitis’ or ‘Foxmania,’ and … started believing what was being fed to him.”
Election experts say giving Maricopa County routers to Arizona Senate s election auditors could be security threat Jen Fifield, Arizona Republic
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Routers serve as the mail carrier of a computer network: They deliver messages using maps of networks and computer addresses.
Think of it like a mail carrier who relies on maps and addresses to get mail to the right place.
Given access to the mail carriers or routers information, it would be easier for a bad actor to get access to a person s mail, or to target the information inside the network.
That s an analogy one tech expert – Matt Bernhard, a research engineer at Voting Works, a nonpartisan nonprofit that advocates for open source election technology gave while explaining the importance of keeping Maricopa County s routers secure.