2020 election deniers ordered to pay $1 million in Pennsylvania voting machine dispute
Source: CNN Politics
Published 12:56 PM EDT, Mon September 2, 2024
CNN — A Pennsylvania judge has determined that three 2020 election deniers must pay nearly $1 million in fees as the result of a years-long legal dispute with state officials over voting equipment used during the last presidential race, according to recent court filings.
Recommendations from the judge, who was appointed to serve as a special master overseeing the case, attach a dollar figure to sanctions previously imposed by the state’s Supreme Court against two Republican county commissioners and their attorney for allowing an outside firm to examine voting equipment after the 2020 election – despite a court order prohibiting them to do so, according to the new filings.
The case, which dates back to 2021, involves actions taken by two Fulton County, Pennsylvania, commissioners – Stuart Ulsh and Randy Bunch – who sought to have Dominion voting equipment examined by a third-party after the 2020 election. Many of former President Donald Trump’s allies falsely blamed Dominion’s software for his election defeat.
Thomas Carroll, an attorney who also served as a pro-Trump fake elector in 2020, was also sanctioned by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court for his conduct and – along with the county and the county commissioners – “shall be jointly and severally responsible” for paying nearly $1 million in fees to cover the Pennsylvania Secretary of State’s legal bills, according to the special master’s latest report. The state Supreme Court will ultimately use the special master recommendations in awarding fees and costs resulting from the case.
Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/02/politics/election-deniers-pennsylvania-voting-machine-dispute/index.html
This case has been going on literally forever, with this county, literally one of the smallest in population in the state, that voted 80% for 45, attempting to tamper with their Dominion Voting Systems machines. I.e., they had Wake TSI-related (the fraudster company that AZ got slimed by) contractors come in to "audit", were told to stand down, and then ignored the court 2 more times to have others come in and attempt to access their machines. The state decertified their machines and forced them to pay to rent new ones. And it just went on and on in court with sanctions and whatnot.
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No wonder the MAGA dude bros are suddenly into crypto 
When pigs fly.
Why should the state have to pay to replace new machines that Ulsh and Bunch destroyed?
Besides that, it was known in advance that this replacement cost must be met, if they followed through and sent the machines out to be "audited" in 2020. They went ahead and did it anyway. FAFO now it's time to pay up, assholes!
I'm shocked that they're still arguing over this. They never had a shred of evidence.
and obviously didn't "get the memo". We are watching Ghouliani go bankrupt and the Kracken lawyers pleading guilty for this crap while they are fighting tooth and nail to be "relevant". 
Unfortunately I blame the courts here too (I have been following this for the past 3 years) as it was taking forever to get hearings scheduled and sanctions imposed, etc.
