Posted on 06/29/2021 3:35:59 AM PDT by Libloather
Maricopa County, Arizona, announced Monday that it will replace all of the voting equipment handed over to private contractors for an election "audit" ordered by Arizona's Republican-controlled Senate. "The voters of Maricopa County can rest assured, the county will never use equipment that could pose a risk to free and fair elections," Maricopa County said in a statement. "As a result, the county will not use the subpoenaed equipment in any future elections."
Maricopa County's Board of Supervisors told Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs in a letter Monday that it shares her concerns about potential tampering by the GOP-hired Florida audit contractors, Cyber Ninjas, which is not certified to handle election equipment in the U.S. When the state Senate subpoenaed the machines, compelling the county to turn over about 400 tabulating machines and 2.1 million ballots, that broke the chain of custody. Cyber Ninja's examination of the ballots has been widely panned by election experts as slapdash and lacking in basic security and transparency.
In May, the GOP-led Maricopa County government slammed the "audit" in a fiery letter to the state Senate. "Our state has become a laughingstock," the five Republicans and two Democrats wrote. "Worse, this 'audit' is encouraging our citizens to distrust elections, which weakens our democratic republic."
A Maricopa County spokesman said the county isn't sure who will pay for the new equipment. When the Senate seized the ballots and voting equipment, it agreed to reimburse the county for any costs incurred "as a result of damage and/or alternation of the Subpoenaed Materials by the Senate or its agents." The county is considering asking the Senate to cover the costs of new equipment and also discussing with Dominion Voting Systems whether it has to pay the remaining $3 million it owes under a three-year lease.
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Zackly.
They should switch to the huge mechanical voting booths .
If they weren't tainted before the election then they are now. Scrap them and replace.
I assume they're talking about what happened after they turned the machines and ballots over. Nobody knows who all had contact with them, much less custody of them.
It sounding like the machines were tainted before the election, not from the audit.
they are admitting that their certification of machines is a joke
They’ll just get “fresh” democrat tainted machines?\
Exactly.
( and more $ laundered kickback/bribes)
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You are correct. The Democrats and their RINO friends are claiming that they don't have the ability to determine if the software on the machines is the correct, Dominion installed software or not. But that's an incredible admission if they aren't just lying.
If they really can't determine if the software on the machines is correct, then they never have known what software is on the machines, and they can't even run the tests that were supposedly run when the machines were certified.
So we have the Arizona Secretary of State either admitting that they can't determine if the Dominion machines they used in 2020 were actually running the EAC certified software, and therefore they can't test the machines now, or that the hashes published by Dominion and the US government are not sufficient to validate that the software on the machines is correct.
As you noted, if they were ever able to validate that the correct set of executable files were on the machine they should be able to re-run the same test to validate that the machines still have the same code present.
If they can't validate the code now then they never could, since the hash values needed are in a public document published by the US Government.
Game. Set. Match.
Lawyer up Maricopa County. Make sure you get good criminal defense attorneys.
Exactly!
Just-Us demands Democrat-kleptaucracy.
That statement is false. During the audit the location and who had access to the machines has been well documented.
Moreover, it should not matter. Voting machines which are certified by the US government must pass tests that determine if all of the software present on the machines is exactly the same as the software provided to the US government approved testing lab.
NAILED IT!
Good idea, dumb machines for dumb voters.
There have been reports to the contrary. I assume that whatever report Cyber Ninjas issues with their findings will detail the chain of custody from their end.
Moreover, it should not matter. Voting machines which are certified by the US government must pass tests that determine if all of the software present on the machines is exactly the same as the software provided to the US government approved testing lab.
Isn't that one of the questions this whole Cyber Ninja audit is supposed to clear up? Whether or not there was software on the machine that escaped the government tests? Even if none was found during the audit there is no way of guaranteeing software wasn't added when the machine was out of the hands of the Maricopa County officials. Far safer to scrap the machines and replace them.
When the state Senate subpoenaed the machines, compelling the county to turn over about 400 tabulating machines and 2.1 million ballots, that broke the chain of custody.
Would be interesting to see the County’s position on paying Dominion if/when the audit results show massive discrepancies. Why would Maricopa County pay D for flawed equipment? Why would the AZ legislature pay the County to replace flawed equipment? D will argue that the operators committed the fraud. But D provided the operator too. Oops. Going to be some interesting litigation.
Your statement is incorrect. The entire process of certifying voting machines and trusting them at all depends on being able to verify that the software loaded on the machines is the same as the tested, certified software. Nobody is depending on the county officials to somehow be magic guardians of correctness. How would they do that?
In reality studies around the world show that election fraud in almost universally done by government officials and politicians. A system which depends on the election officials to ensure that the software on the machines they use is correct, and operating according to the source code examined by certification labs without them having the ability to verify that the code on their machines is the same as the certified code is absurd.
The exact same tests that everyone is relying on to determine what software is running on the election systems will instantly identify any changes made by anyone to the election systems. Anyone who says that they can not depend on those tests, if they aren't lying, just invalidated the entire certification process.
If the county, working with Dominion, can't ensure that the voting machines are in the exact same configuration that they were before the audit regardless of what anyone did to them at the audit, then they have never had the ability to ensure that they knew what code was actually running on the machines. But they already signed documents stating the opposite and filed them with the federal government.
So either the Arizona Secretary of State is lying now, or Dominion was lying to the federal government.
So they admit the machines can be tampered with. 🤔
I think the Democrat Secretary of State's desire to generate a PR narrative and to create a reason to block any audits in the future caused her to forget that her claims did just what you said. If Arizona and Dominion can't run a simple test to identify if the code on the election machines is the same as what they had certified then they have never known what code was actually on the machines, and if it was even the same as the certified code.
In reality the tests do exist, and the Arizona Democrats are just lying, but taking their statements at face value they just admitted that the statements made to get the certifications had to be false.
Here is the AZ SOS's list of voting machines by county.
Here is one set of publicly available hashes for election system software.
Here is a list of federally certified voting systems. Detailed test reports are published which list the software and hardware components used in the systems.
Reports from around the news world.....(depressing all around)
CBS headline
Maricopa County’s partisan ballot review in final stages
Arizona Republic
Maricopa County election audit is clean? That must mean fraud!
USA Today
Fact check: No evidence election audit in Maricopa County has found widespread election fraud
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