A federal judge issued a temporary restraining order late Sunday night barring Georgia election officials from reseting or otherwise altering Dominion Voting Systems machines used during the November presidential election.
The order was issued as a part of attorney Sidney Powell's ongoing election lawsuit in Georgia and was the third emergency order issued Sunday night to ensure "voting machines be seized and impounded immediately for forensic audit by plaintiffs’ experts," according to Powell's suit.
However, Judge Timothy Batten Sr. told Powell that her request to seize and impound the voting machines failed because the voting equipment she wants to impound is in the possession of county election officials. So any injunction the court issues would extend only to the defendants and those within their control.
"Plaintiffs have not demonstrated that county election officials are within defendants’ control," the judge wrote. "Defendants cannot serve as a proxy for local election officials against whom the relief should be sought."
