Posted on 05/13/2021 3:14:08 AM PDT by grundle
Last week, the Gateway Pundit reported about the emergency meeting that was called by the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors, after the County was reportedly unable to provide passwords to the auditors performing an audit of the county’s 2020 Election results. They also did not provide access to the routers which were requested in the audit as well.
This afternoon, it was discovered that “the entire database” for the 2020 General election, showing the “Results Tally and Reporting,” has been deleted!
100 Percent Fed Up reports– President of the Arizona Senate Karen Fann has written a letter to Chairman Sellers, demanding answers.
Here is the letter to Maricopa County Supervisor Chairman Jack Sellers from Arizona Senate President Karen Fann:
Dear Chairman Sellers:
I am writing to seek your assistance and cooperation in the resolution of three (3) serious issues that have arisen in the course of the Senate’s ongoing audit of the returns of the November 3, 2020, general election in Maricopa County.
I. Ongoing Non-Compliance with the Legislative Subpoenas
The first issue concerns Maricopa County’s apparent intent to renege on its previous commitment to comply fully with the legislative subpoenas issued on January 13, 2021, which, as you know, Judge Thomason found were valid and enforceable.
To date, attorneys for Maricopa County have refused to produce virtual images of routers used in connection with the general election, relying on a conclusory and unsupported assertion that providing the routers would somehow “endanger the lives of law enforcement officers, their operations, or the protected health information and personal data of Maricopa County’s citizens.”If true, the fact that Maricopa County stores on its routers substantial quantities of citizens’ and employees’ highly sensitive personal information is an alarming indictment of the County’s lax data security practices, rather than of the legislative subpoenas.
Similarly, the County’s assertion that producing the internet routers for inspection would cost up to $6,000,000 seems at odds with Deputy County Attorney Joseph La Rue’s prior representation to Audit Liaison Ken Bennett that the routers already had been disconnected from the County’s network and were prepared for imminent delivery to the Senate.
Nevertheless, in an effort to resolve the dispute regarding production of the routers, we propose that agents of CyFIR, an experienced digital forensics firm and subcontractor of Cyber Ninjas, review virtual images of the relevant routers in Maricopa County facilities and in the presence of representatives of the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office. Such an arrangement would permit Maricopa County to retain custody and monitor the review of router data while ensuring that the Senate may access the information it requires—and to which it is constitutionally entitled—to successfully complete its audit. The Senate has no interest in viewing or taking possession of any information that is unrelated to the administration of the 2020 general election.
Separately, Maricopa County has refused to provide the passwords necessary to access vote tabulation devices. Its attorneys’ insistence that the County does not have custody or control of this information is belied by the County’s conduct of its own audits, which, if they were as comprehensive as they purported to be, almost certainly would have entailed use of the passwords to examine the tabulation devices, and it strains credulity to posit that the County has no contractual right to obtain (i.e., control of) password information from Dominion.
II. Chain of Custody and Ballot Organization Anomalies
As the audit has progressed, the Senate’s contractors have become aware of apparent omissions, inconsistencies, and anomalies relating to Maricopa County’s handling, organization, and storage of ballots.We hope you can assist us in understanding these issues, including specifically the following:
1 The County has not provided any chain-of-custody documentation for the ballots.Does such documentation exist, and if so, will it be produced?
2 The bags in which the ballots were stored are not sealed, although the audit team has found at the bottom of many boxes cut seals of the type that would have sealed a ballot bag. Why were these seals placed at the bottom of the boxes?
3 Batches within a box are frequently separated by only a divider without any indication of the corresponding batch numbers.In some cases, the batch dividers are missing altogether.This lack of organization has significantly complicated and delayed the audit team’s ballot processing efforts.What are the County’s procedures for sorting, organizing, and packaging ballot batches?
4 Most of the ballot boxes were sealed merely with regular tape and not secured by any kind of tamper-evident seal.Is that the County’s customary practice for storing ballots?
5 The audit team has encountered a significant number of instances in which there is a disparity between the actual number of ballots contained in a batch and the total denoted on the pink report slip accompanying the batch.In most of these instances, the total on the pink report slip is greater than the number of ballots in the batch, although there are a few instances in which the total is lower.What are the reasons for these discrepancies?For your reference, please see several illustrative (i.e., not comprehensive) examples in the table below:
For your convenience, images of the corresponding pink report slips are attached in Exhibit A.
III. Deleted Databases
We have recently discovered that the entire “Database” directory from the D drive of the machine “EMSPrimary” has been deleted. This removes election related details that appear to have been covered by the subpoena. In addition, the main database for the Election Management System (EMS) Software, “Results Tally and Reporting,” is not located anywhere on the EMSPrimary machine, even though all of the EMS Clients reference that machine as the location of the database. This suggests that the main database for all election-related data for the November 2020 General Election has been removed. Can you please advise as to why these folders were deleted, and whether there are any backups that may contain the deleted folders?
The image below shows the location of the files known to be deleted. In addition, the main database for “Results Tally and Reporting” is not present.
am hopeful that we can constructively resolve these issues and questions without recourse to additional subpoenas or other compulsory processes.To that end, I invite you and any other officers or employees of Maricopa County (to include officials in the Elections Department) who possess knowledge or information concerning the matters set forth above to a meeting at the Arizona State Capitol on Tuesday, May 18, 2021, at 1:00 p.m. in Hearing Room 109. Chairman Petersen, former Secretary Bennett, and I will attend the meeting, which will be live-streamed to the public.
Please let me know at your earliest convenience whether you accept my invitation and, if so, which Maricopa County personnel will attend.
Thank you for your cooperation on these important issues of public concern.
Respectfully,
Karen Fann, President
Arizona State Senate
When inspectors received the boxes of ballots where the audit was being performed, the tamper-proof tape was cut on the boxes and the number of ballots inside the boxes was not the same as what was reported by the County reporter, and what was turned over to the Senate don’t line up.
A week before the machines were turned over, records were deleted by an administrator—this has to be treated as an act of intentional cover-up!
The Maricopa Arizona Audit team has also tweeted about the breaking bombshell:
Breaking Update: Maricopa County deleted a directory full of election databases from the 2020 election cycle days before the election equipment was delivered to the audit. This is spoliation of evidence!
Why would the database be deleted unless there was something massive they were trying to hide? This article is for everyone who’s been trying to convince Americans that no voter fraud took place in the November election and that it was the safest and most secure election in modern history.
Nothing to see here!
UPDATE — Here is the letter from the Arizona Senate to the Maricopa County Supervisors
These people do not see what is going to happen. They underestimate as do most here
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What do foresee happening?
And, as others have already indicated, just "deleting" something from the directory does not actually wipe out the data. It's still there, only the directory entry for it is gone.
If that's what someone did it should be easy enough to figure out, and enough forensic data will be present to send the guilty party to prison - that is, IF someone was really stupid enough both from an ethical and technical POV, to do that.
OTOH... did someone do such a deliberate act as to run a utility program like bleachbit to totally wipe out the database? They better have covered their tracks well...
Looking back now and seeing the date of this story is yesterday... in the mainframe world, where I grew up, an average SYSPROG would have already busted this guy and run him up the flagpole, AFTER restoring the lost database mind you. He wouldn't even have had to stay up all night for it, although he might have called out for pizza.
One would assume that a similar paradigm exists here...
People are very unwise to put any terrible action past the Democrats.
Moreso people are very unwise to put any victory past Trump.
> “How can the county idiots get into the computers in order to delete databases without passwords?”
They lied.
There’s more to this.
There are missing ballots.
There is a failure of the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors (MCBOS) to turn over all election materials to the Maricopa County Treasurer within 30 days of the election as required by AZ state law.
What happened to the Maricopa County Treasurer?
His name was Royce Flora. He was driven out and forced to resign on 12-30-2020. He was a big Trump supporter.
Maricopa County Treasurer Flora Resigns In “Disgust” With Board Of Supervisors
So who had the Maricopa election materials?
Why are there missing paper ballots?
The forensic team led by Pulitzer doesn’t need any machine or electronic material to do their work. They can detect counterfeit ballots using advanced methods of technology.
But now there is a report that ballots are missing. How many? Not known to the public yet.
The routers have time-date destination information that reveal foreign interference and local hacking. MCBOS refuses to turn over the routers even though they are under a court-backed subpoena.
Spoliation of Evidence (evidence tampering) is a crime.
But who will prosecute?
The AZ State Attorney General:Mark Brnovich will NOT initiate a prosecution. To me, Brnovich appears as another fake Republican. The AZ Attorney General before Brnovich switched to become a Democrat after leaving office and calls the Maricopa Audit part of “The Big Lie.” That’s a signal of corruption orchestrated nationally.
Maricopa is riddled with Liz Cheney type turncoat Republicans who are aligned with the crime syndicate that took over the Democrat Party and spilled over into Republican areas.
There may be an option for the AZ legislature to apply to the federal judge that is backing the audit subpoenas for appointment of a special counsel (special prosecutor). I believe this federal judge has jurisdiction because the 2020 election involved candidates for federal office.
I am leaning towards taking more seriously the prospects of a possible military solution by end of Summer. In my view, this serious scenario can take place as more states follow AZ’s lead and run up against similar crimes of evidence tampering. I am thinking the unthinkable because unless strict nuclear level security is established for elections, fair elections will not exist.
How more obvious can you be they are hiding the results.
Wiped with a cloth?
Oh sure, but nothing WIDESPREAD! /s
One word: S P O L I A T I O N
That depends on how the machines were wiped. Using a DOD 5220.22-M utility which is freely and easily available on the internet makes any Windows/Linux/MacOS hard drive unrecoverable.
I love seeing those words in print. It would make a great billboard.
You may want to look up the histories of one party states over the last 300 years or so. You’d be surprised.
You may want to review the history of the past five years or so. Criminal Democrats free as birds. Trump supporters rotting in jail. Biden in the WH. Trump on the beach. The proof is in the pudding. Sorry.
I can not believe the entire Board of Supervisors for Maricopa County weren’t IMMEDIATELY ARRESTED upon the discovery of the deleted files.
Unless you are 5 years old, 5 years in history is of little to no consequence. You can’t judge history from events over 5 years.
Not to mention, even in deep blue New Jersey, the state AG just hauled a bunch of Democrats to court for ballot fraud and the results of that particular election was set aside.
Use the search button at the top of the page for more 9n that.
Yawn. I’m passed the point of frustration with the lack of hard results either one way or the other, plus with the arrogant ignorance of those who claim the election was ‘fair’ in light of serious allegations which continue to be stonewalled.
This is NOT complicated. In fact, it’s analogous to the reason why Costco checks receipts at the door:
Deterrent to employee theft.
Inside jobs are the bane of every industry with something to lose, be it hard inventory or intellectual property (e.g., see recent reports on military hardware engineering plans being sent to China).
Furthermore, the anecdotal results (I use the word solely because they are NOT part of a court record...yet) demonstrate severe violations of the public trust in failure to follow established guidelines (in some cases perhaps, laws) regarding chain of custody, ballot security and electronic records, including security matters.
The whole thing reeks of ‘inside job’, but due to the multi-state aspect, the elephant in the room as well: Conspiracy.
Anecdotally, there is ample evidence of election fraud in multiple states. That is 100% clear.
I care not about proving further that fraud occurred; if we cannot establish how multiple jurisdictions accomplished like actions in multiple states - clearly a federal conspiracy matter - then the whole process is moot.
As it stands right now, Dominion appears to either have either prosecuted or facilitated manipulation of digital election data under a complicated set of criteria designed to escape basic scrutiny.
The more time which passes, more evidence will be ‘missing’.
At this time, I have ZERO confidence in the security of midterm elections, to state nothing of the next POTUS election. I want results.
But we have similar circumstances resulting from the Russia Collusion investigations: Nada.
I firmly believe that we can expect the same when it comes to making the 2020 election matter fade away as well...
Stop pussyfooting around! Arrest them and charge them with evidence tampering.
If data was deleted, election protocol has been broken and the results are NULL and void.
Thanks, for later.
Boot it up with a Linux Live USB stick. It boots to a running Linux operating system and with it, you have complete access to any files on the hard drive. Windows passwords don't mean squat to Linux. But in reality, whoever does have the password, whether it was Dominion or the county election people, likely did the deleting.
Where’s the military when foreigners crafted our election? Oh that’s right “they just follow orders” like the Nazis.
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