Subject: Re: Mysteries Regarding the Powell Plea Deal
Of course, I still don't understand the logic in any plea deal here. People have fought and died so that we can have elections -- fair elections. Anyone involved with wholesale election fraud needs to serve jail time. Anything less sends a horrible message -- fines and probation are just the cost of doing business.

I think the idea is that Powell wasn't actually charged with wholesale election fraud in Georgia. Her wrongful actions were in illegally trying to get access to the voting machines and records.

She's a terrible person because she spread lies about the integrity of voting machines (and Dominion) all across the country - lying about what happened, lying about what evidence she had to back up her claims, lying about what elections officials did, etc. She deserves to lose all her money to Dominion, and to be disbarred for perpetrating that fraud. And those lies became a part of the "paperwork coup," which was very very dangerous to democracy. But her actual crimes in Georgia were far more prosaic - she wasn't on the Raffensperger call and she doesn't appear to have been an architect of, or even an active participant in, trying to get Congress and/or state legislators to do anything. And sometimes you can't get the bigger fish without letting the little fish go.

Her testimony on the stand is probably useless - but her plea deal might make it easier to get one of the other "little fish," someone who could be valuable on the stand, to flip. There's 17 defendants left to go. We'll see if any other dominoes fall.