Macomb County hiring contractor to look at election machine (Michigan)

SF Gate ^ | 10/05/21

[Libloather]

MOUNT CLEMENS, Mich. (AP) - Michigan's third-largest county, where voters backed former President Donald Trump in 2020, is hiring a specialist to examine its election hardware and software.

The work in Macomb County is not a second look at the results of the presidential election. Rather, the Republican county clerk, who was elected last year, said he wants to lead the state in “election integrity.”

A contractor, Pro V&V, will be paid roughly $16,000 to take apart the county election server, Anthony Forlini said Tuesday.

Pro V&V will take pictures, record serial numbers and perform other tasks to get a “complete forensic image” of the server and hard drive.

“I want to make sure we’re moving forward with the best practices,” Forlini, a former state lawmaker, told The Associated Press. “This isn't about overturning 2020 or anything along those lines. ... I'm not worried about the past. I'm working on the future.”

[ClearCase_guy]

"I'm not worried about the past. I'm working on the future.”

This may not be the only thing worth focusing on, but I do think it is the most fruitful thing to focus on.

[hecticskeptic]

I dunno... I’m all for legit audits but my radar is up that this could be an effort to destroy, hide and bury important evidence....

[Steven Tyler]

Dopes, you were supposed to take the image before and after.

What’s the point of taking pictures inside a bank vault after the crooks cleaned out said bank vault

[wastedyears]

The county clerk didn’t kill himself.

[RideForever]

Actually, the new clerk is on to something. It takes good sense to take a copy of the server's files before the election. It makes so much sense, that it ought to be required by every state to have a pre-election image on file before the polls open, and an image of the voter registration file that will be used.

And the state should make it a requirement in order to certify a Federal election. Even better if a post image copy of the server is required after all ballots are counted. And post election, a copy of the router logs.