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
“Just about anything electronic can be recovered,”
A simple DOD wipe of the deleted file’s sectors or all unallocated sectors would make it impossible for even the best forensic types to recover.
These officials need to do HARD PRISON TIME. The STATE AG is the first hurdle to jump for that.
They were deleted from the main “primary” drives so that the audit could not get to the data, requiring actual court time - possible weeks or months - for the Senate to try to identify and get to any back ups. Meanwhile, while the Senate audit is unable to do its job, the deniers get to keep publicly denying there is an problem. While the media keeps helping them cover the fact they - Maricopa County - has prevented the uncovering of the problems.
Its a situation of the public being told there is no problem, while in fact the county keeps hiding the evidence.
“Did they delete the backups too? Please don’t tell me there were no backups”.
I was wondering about backups, too. Even if they deleted data from the machines and maybe even the main server, many organizations do a backup backup to a faraway location as part of disaster planning.
What I’m trying to figure out what was the exact time the boo boo happened, and how did it correlate with the timing of the “cyber attack” on the pipeline fiasco.” Is one a false flag for the other?
Ideas,theories anyone??
What I’m trying to figure out what was the exact time the boo boo happened, and how did it correlate with the timing of the “cyber attack” on the pipeline fiasco.” Is one a false flag for the other?
Ideas,theories anyone??
Sometimes was my fault...Being a trusting sort.
This F'in seems more personal...even though I don't know personally any of the actors.
Weird that...but I'm going to say....This SHEET CANNOT STAND....
This country is going to hell...with these Dims running things.
Something is gonna break,,,,
My current default reply to anyone about the current state of full-on crisis is, “You voted for it.”
This election was stolen.....
Absolutely no doubt in my mind....
The only ones asking me about all the falderol are libs.
Just about anything electronic can be recovered, if you get the right forensic experts.
Usually you get pieces, but you can get more pieces with more time and money. At a point though, it becomes impractical.
Regardless, they have enough that it certainly looks like deliberate destruction of subpoenaed records.
If the ballots are audited, then why are electronic records so vital?
This audit is about whether proper procedures were followed, and supportable results obtained. Officially, it’s not a recount of the election.
An audit isn’t going to release information part way though. What this is, is an information request, which is also part of an audit when irregularities are found.
Next question for the county: “So, where are your backups?” Because they pretty much had to have them. If they didn’t have any... well, they need to be fired and charged with the appropriate charges.
Why did you (per your claim) have HIPPA records on unsecured or improperly secured devices?
Why did you (per your claim) have personnel records on unsecured or improperly secured devices?
Why did you compromise the election network by tying it in to the administrative network?
Why did you delete, or allow to be deleted, subpoenaed materials?
Why did you delete, or allow to be deleted, materials with a federally mandated 22 month retention?
Why did you allow improper software on the election network?
Why did the election network not have required protected security logs?
Why were the stored ballots not sealed?
Why did you refuse to turn over the ballots, arguing that you were required to keep them sealed?
Why was due care not taken in counting batches of ballots?
Why was a falsified recount presented?
Why did you not have network control on what devices were permitted to access the network?
Etc....
They seem to think they are in no danger as long as the MSM is ridiculing the auditors.
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.
I can not believe the entire Board of Supervisors for Maricopa County weren’t IMMEDIATELY ARRESTED upon the discovery of the deleted files.
The folder and sub-file deletions took place on April 12, per the screen-shots.
Yep
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