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Arizona Election Auditors Have Found Data Thought To Have Been Deleted
Conservative Brief ^ | 5/19 | Carmine Sabia

Posted on 05/19/2021 10:29:39 AM PDT by TrumpianRepublican

There is good news for those who want a fair resolution to the Maricopa County, Arizona audit of the 2020 presidential election.

The information that was alleged to have been deleted has been recovered, an auditor said on Tuesday, The Arizona Mirror reported.

At a hearing on Tuesday afternoon in the Senate, CyFIr founder Ben Cotton, a subcontractor on Senate President Karen Fann’s audit team, said that his team was able to recover data that the Senate’s election team had accused Maricopa County of deleting.

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TOPICS: Politics
KEYWORDS: 1of; audit; az; bot; postandrun; zotthisbot

1 posted on 05/19/2021 10:29:39 AM PDT by TrumpianRepublican
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To: TrumpianRepublican

Of course they did.


2 posted on 05/19/2021 10:30:13 AM PDT by Jonty30 (Just because I coughed on you does not mean that I have covid. It means that we have covid. )
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To: TrumpianRepublican

There must be panic in the Dem ranks.......................


3 posted on 05/19/2021 10:30:51 AM PDT by Red Badger (Jesus said there is no marriage in Heaven. That's why they call it Heaven.....................)
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To: TrumpianRepublican

So they didn’t technically break the law, since they only hid the files, rather deleting them. Either way, quite evasive.


4 posted on 05/19/2021 10:35:11 AM PDT by BobL (I shop at Walmart and eat at McDonald's, I just don't tell anyone, like most here.)
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To: Red Badger

All democrats will surely panic when the results of audit are published. Except thief president Biden. He has reached 75% senility.


5 posted on 05/19/2021 10:35:59 AM PDT by entropy12 (President Trump saved Millions of lives with his warp speed push for covid vaccines. Trump or Bust!!)
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To: TrumpianRepublican

again with this bs. the data associated with a directory entry on a file system is not normally removed or destroyed when a user deletes (types “rm” or “del” at the command line) the file’s entry record in the directory.

the auditor never said anything about the user (database software) created “data” being destroyed. that’s MSM and county bs. my take is that he just said the file’s entry in the directory indicated it was marked deleted at the user level. therefore, someone at the county who had permission to do so, did that. they probably didn’t understand that deleting a directory entry doesn’t remove or erase (the correct term) the data in the file on the physical media. that takes special software to go though the blocks of the file and write through them from the cache to the disk.

anyway. i’m getting sick of this. it’s obviously a play by the enemy to confuse regular people about the audit.


6 posted on 05/19/2021 10:40:43 AM PDT by dadfly
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To: TrumpianRepublican

It could easily be a ghost file - placed there specifically to troll a forensic audit. It would be formatted to make the voting machine appear to have been operating appropriately.


7 posted on 05/19/2021 10:43:44 AM PDT by corkoman
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To: Jonty30

You can undelete files that have not been overwritten since deletion. I’ll assume that the political hacks who deleted the files didn’t spend the time to write new data. They were probably in a hurry and worried about being caught. Deletion normally only marks the disk space where the files reside as usable.

We used to be able to use the original Norton Utilities to find all sorts of stuff on floppy disks. We could read every sector of the disk and find whole files and sectors with file fragments. We could also use the debug command to make all sorts of tweaks. Disks are much larger now and the software is more complicated and expensive.

G=C800:5 Extra points for you if you know what this command will do without looking it up.


8 posted on 05/19/2021 10:46:37 AM PDT by Poser (Cogito ergo Spam - I think, therefore I ham)
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To: TrumpianRepublican

Wonder what it is. Maybe a old count before the votes were switched or sent off.


9 posted on 05/19/2021 10:50:28 AM PDT by glimmerman70
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To: TrumpianRepublican

Questions I’d like to see answered:
1) What password level was required to delete database files?
2) Who help passwords of that level?
3) BoS is screaming that Fann insulted their august employees by accusing them of deleting the files. Yet Fann’s letter said only that the files were missing — no mention of employees. Maricopa says “none of our employees deleted the files”. Yet they know full well Maricopa that they have two CONTRACTORS who have admin passwords and operate the election systems. Why is the County playing games about “EMPLOYEES” versus “CONTRACTORS”?
4) What be the two Contractors names?
5) Maricopa is their client. Who is their actual employer?
6) Why hasn’t the State Senate subpoenaed those two individuals to appear and answer questions under oath? Would seem like a very direct way to squeeze out some truth, or have culprits without political cover to put in jail for contempt and obstruction.


10 posted on 05/19/2021 10:56:35 AM PDT by Chewbarkah
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To: entropy12; Jonty30

See 2...


11 posted on 05/19/2021 10:58:25 AM PDT by Does so (The Media is the enemy of the people...Trial lawyers close behind...)
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To: TrumpianRepublican

IIRC a File allocation table(FAT) is how most operating systems keep data files. When you delete the first entry to a file this is called deletion, but the entire file is still there unless it is overwritten. Unless you execute a purposeful “bit wipe” most files can be recovered.
A computer science degree can be handy sometimes.
They teach you things like how to design operating systems and other boring things.


12 posted on 05/19/2021 11:00:25 AM PDT by rellic
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To: TrumpianRepublican

Okay okay.

Let’s all pour a fresh coffee and move on.


13 posted on 05/19/2021 11:07:42 AM PDT by lurk ( )
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To: Red Badger

I doubt they are panicking since they are convinced their enemedia whores can obfuscate any daming evidence, as they have done up to now.


14 posted on 05/19/2021 11:10:18 AM PDT by MHGinTN (A dispensation perspective is a powerful tool for discernment)
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To: Poser

You can undelete files that have not been overwritten since deletion.

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What is more, it’s often possible to see the state of the cells in solid state memory and reconstruct file system date before it was overwritten. In fact, I’ve heard that you can look back quite a few previous memory iterations.

This is why Hillary’s crooked I.T. people knew they needed bleachbit.


15 posted on 05/19/2021 11:12:44 AM PDT by z3n
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To: TrumpianRepublican
A more accurate title would be

Arizona auditors forensically recover deleted files from the 2020 election.

Either that or someone has produced the thumb drive someone used to back up their get out of jail free back up of the data.

Or maybe both.

Regardless, things are falling apart for the vote thieves and someone is going to turn states evidence.

Too many people involved int he steal. Many are not hard core criminals. They signed on to bounce the bad ‘ol orange guy and they have a lot to lose now that things are heading in a really bad direction they never anticipated

16 posted on 05/19/2021 11:41:21 AM PDT by rdcbn1
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To: z3n

The general process to securely delete data on a drive is to over write the hard drive sectors containing the date at least 9 times if memory serves.

Even then, some fragments of the data on the drive can be recovered and small discrete data like a single email or fragment s of a document can be recovered. forensically.

This was actually done by the FBI and they recovered some interesting stuff from Hillary’s drives.


17 posted on 05/19/2021 12:15:31 PM PDT by rdcbn1
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To: BobL
I don’t agree with your description of the files being hidden and not deleted.

Geeks do their best to be technically accurate and correct in their spoken and written descriptions. The description was that deleted files were recovered. Precise words. The geek speak does not need an inaccurate word substitution.

Your words that the files were hidden are well, yours and do not relate or correlate at all to deletion and recovery.

18 posted on 05/19/2021 1:23:55 PM PDT by Hootowl99
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To: Hootowl99

You think my words are bad, you should see what AP had to say...basically that they’re a bunch of idiots and jumped to a conclusion.

As it is, I don’t dispute what you’re saying, but given what AP is claiming, I sure hope they explain it as well as you did.


19 posted on 05/19/2021 1:33:14 PM PDT by BobL (I shop at Walmart and eat at McDonald's, I just don't tell anyone, like most here.)
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