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2/As background, Judge Osteen has presided since May 22 over suit attacking antifraud protections for absentee ballots. On Aug 4, Osteen issued a 188-page order largely upholding procedures the legislature modified on Jun 12, including the witness requirement.

3/The same Dem attacks also failed before a 3-judge state court in early Sept. So, Dems filed yet another suit Aug 10, avoided a 3-judge panel by claiming they were making “as-applied” rather than facial challenges to laws, and got their target judge, Dem Bryan Collins.

4/Collins is same judge who held last year that the elected General Assembly is a usurper body without full power to act (since reversed for gross legal error on appeal).

5/So, with that background, here’s the new action since Wed.: Thu, Oct 1: Notwithstanding Osteen’s Sept 30 order, Dem state Judge Collins obligingly approved the Dem plaintiffs’ & Elections Bd’s collusive settlement, which would end protections from fraud in absentee balloting.

6/But, also Oct 1: Judge Osteen issued ANOTHER order noting that when the NCSBE eliminated the witness requirement it used “this court’s preliminary injunction ... to obtain relief this court denied.” He anticipated “an additional injunction” to come.

7/And then TODAY, in litigation filed last Sat by legislative leaders, Trump campaign, RNC and yours truly, Judge Jim Dever entered this beast of a TRO in Raleigh federal court: http://speakermoore.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Order-granting-TRO.pdf …

8/Judge Dever’s order recognized that NCSBE’s “settlement” eliminated not only “the statutory witness requirement” but also “the statutory deadline for absentee ballots,” AND the requirement of in-person mailing or delivery by the voter. Pp 7-9

9/Dever pointedly noted that NCSBE hid the ball from Judge Osteen and found that it “materially changed the rules under which the election was taking place” on Oct 2, after “319,209 NC voters had cast absentee ballots. Pp 9, 14 Then Judge Dever really unloaded: