Absolutely not true in a modern network environment. Time, date, MAC address, source and destination IP addresses, which interface on the router and switch the traffic went through and which physical switch port said traffic went through and other information are logged which is passed along to a network managment system. If Maricopa County does not have that sort of IT in place, they are negligent in their duties. Those logs should be able to destroy any claims of non-cheating that occurred via internet connection/s.
It absolute is true....
Routers have minimal mass storage, probably less than 200 gigs storage which would be huge...I’ve worked on routers with far less....
Routers DO NOT have hard drives on them, they have something called a flash drive which at most contains 1-2 copies of the operating system and the configuration that is running on the router....outside of that pretty much nothing else...
Routers and can be configured to send information to a log server or servers and we have no idea if Maricopa County even uses that setup or how long log files are maintained....remember November is almost 6 months ago..
This router issue is a wild goose chase and distraction. Concentrate on the physical ballots, the machines that count the votes and who has access to them...
You are assuming the logs didn’t rotate out or weren’t simply wiped or logging was disabled. Whoever was behind this operation was probably smart enough not to leave such forensic data. I’m been in the field for 25 years, mostly deep diving kernel plumbing on Linux and Unix; which is what all these devices run on. Anyone who was able to pull off such massive fraud should be able to clear their crumbs. The pols are morons when it comes to IT. But they know what they did, they are freaking out, but they don’t understand the details. Their seditious or state-sponsored (China) friends could easily mask MACs/IPs/routing by hopping though multiple proxies with spoofed IPs (similar to frequency hopping encrypted radios). Their IT people, whoever helped these morons pull of stealing this election, are probably telling them to calm the hell down in faraday caged non-US SCIFs in northern VA somewhere.