in my county in texas (mostly rural, one population center with 30,000, the total county around 42,000) we have had voting machines which generate a paper tape which is then run into the tabulator since the 2010 off-year elections. since the 2012 presidential election residents of the county can vote at any polling place in the county and their votes will be assigned and tabulated according to the precinct they are in. the tabulation machines retain the paper strip until all potential recounts and audits are concluded, then they are disposed of.
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How would the MyCrappyPillow guy have acquired his alleged evidence, which was/is not available to any election official, or his bestest buddy rump? And why did he choose to withhold his alleged evidence during all the court cases rather than turn it over to people who could supposedly make use of it?
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With his giant pillow-brain and crack team of pillow software engineers?
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… Dominion … secret … special master … expose …
Whew-- I’m feeling a little flush.
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Maybe he is just buying time. People are pretty sure the next March 4th the tide will turn and Mr. Biden will be arrested with the rest of the evil cabal of evil cabalists!
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Lindell and his ilk have made a lot of other easily disprovable claims about the ownership and funding of Dominion Systems and the company’s foreign connections, etc., which would make the source code unnecessary to prevail in these suits. If the source code even is subject to discovery, it would probably take place under the watchful eye of the court because of the sensitive nature of the source code; they’re not just going to hand the source code over.
After all, having access to the source code would enable Lindell to actually do the things that he is accusing others of.
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Within Trumpworld, you could claim that an analysis of the voting machine power supplies found that they generate nothing but blue elections, biasing the results, and it would be accepted as proof.
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Lindell is “very, very happy” he’s being sued?
I knew that mustache looked familiar. He cleans up OK in a suit.
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If he doesn’t already have the source code to prove his case, he doesn’t have a case apart from whatever “evidence” he already has. He will have to lay out all of his “evidence” during discovery before getting any sort of access to the source code. Even then he’ll get told to fly a kite.
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Well, electrical sparks are blue. 
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Its worse than that for him. Plaintiffs will undoubtedly move for summary judgment. Meaning they are saying the facts and issues of law are so clear a trial is unnecessary. Meaning you don’t even get to Discovery. That’s when Lindell has to show evidence to either dispute plaintiff’s claims and raise “triable issues of fact” or that would grant them dismissal.
Since the issue is whether Lindell broadcast false statements, he has to prove those statements were supported by facts he had in possession at the time. He will never get the chance to request technical specs/source code of the machines. If he didn’t have it when he made the statements, then he knew the statements were false.
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Dominion has been loud about going to trial. Saying they will never consider settling and that a full trial is needed to counter the false claims that are damaging their business.
I think everyone has outlined very good reasons MyPillow Guy wouldn’t be able to get the source code. Even if he and whatever lawyer is foolish enough to work with him know enough about the magic computer box to try.
But Dominion clearly wants to tear these people and their claims apart as publicly as possible. Smartmatic seems to be following suit, particularly with going directly after Fox News.
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Maybe this IS the end game. Maybe, as the suit says in plain English, he’s doing what Trump was doing - building his brand.
So he’s very very happy. It gives the silenced Trumpers something to do: buy pillows they can cry into after their next encounters with teargas. Or onions.
Or both.
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How I imagine the kind of legal team that would have him as a client:
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Those guys would be a step up from cheetolini’s legal team.
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This ^^^. As someone currently going through old code in the product I work on I can say good luck to the pillow scientists.
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Except a full trial is not necessary here. Motion practice will counter the false claims just as well and save time. Undoubtedly their lawyers are not going to be as enthusiastic about going to trial if they can get their evidence heard and the judgment without wasting 1-5 years for it to get through the trial calendar.
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Now I remember where I’d seen that scarf: it’s Feldman’s.
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