A conservative group that claimed to uncover a ballot stuffing scheme in Georgia has told a judge it has no evidence to back up its allegations.

A conservative group that claimed to uncover a ballot stuffing scheme in Georgia has told a judge it has no evidence to back up its allegations.

  • athos77@kbin.social
    60·
    5 months ago

    Texas-based True the Vote filed complaints […] including one in which it said it had obtained “a detailed account of coordinated efforts to collect and deposit ballots in drop boxes across metro Atlanta” […] When pressed to provide names of sources and other documentation, the group last year tried to withdraw its complaint. [When that was denied] attorneys for True the Vote said the group had no names or other documentary evidence to share.

    So they fucking lied, tried to wriggle out of it when they were called out, and now they’ve admitted they have nothing? Fuckers need to be in prison, be permanently banned from anything to do with elections and politics, and have their own right to vote revoked.

    • 2fat4that@kbin.social
      15·
      5 months ago

      No one ever leaves the right wing because that would mean coming to terms with having been an absolute piece of shit but new idiots join every day thanks to bullshit accusations like this one.

      The propaganda did its job now onto the next completely unfounded zero-risk accusation.

    • perviouslyiner@lemmy.world
      7·
      5 months ago

      Are they still lying?

      "One of its attorneys wrote that a complete response would require True the Vote to identify people to whom it had promised confidentiality"

      • ShepherdPie@midwest.social
        4·
        4 months ago

        Yeah.

        In addition to names, the judge ordered True the Vote to provide copies of any confidentiality agreements it had with sources.

        The group’s attorneys replied: “TTV has no such documents in its possession, custody, or control.”

    • MxM111@kbin.social
      319·
      5 months ago

      I do not think they technically lied. People who believe into conspiracy theories usually require negative amount of evidence (I.e., they believe it despite of the evidence to the contrary). But this amount of evidence does not work for the courts. They are just nuts (yes, that’s a technical term).

      • athos77@kbin.social
        27·
        5 months ago

        They claimed they had evidence. Even if it was bad ‘evidence’, they should have been able to produce it. I mean, you talk with a flat earther or a faked moon landing person or a vaccine is gonna kill you person, they’re gonna have all kinds of bullshit evidence to try to convince you. These guys couldn’t even come up with that.

        • nova_ad_vitum@lemmy.ca
          3·
          4 months ago

          Lawyers can’t knowingly present lies or falsehoods in court. Due to that single constraint, these idiots can’t present anything because all they have are falsehoods and they know it.

        • MxM111@kbin.social
          1·
          4 months ago

          What kind of evidence flat rather or vaccine denier would have other than “I heard that”? That would not be considered as evidence by any lawyer representing them.

      • flipht@kbin.social
        1·
        4 months ago

        So people who lie a lot make up idiotic justifications to believe their own lies. That doesn’t make them not-lies.