Posted on 05/15/2021 2:31:16 AM PDT by Libloather
Maricopa County Board of Supervisors Chairman Jack Sellers rejected claims made about the controversial audit of the 2020 election, demanding a retraction of public statements about the suspected destruction of evidence.
Arizona Senate President Karen Fann, the leader of the Republican-majority Senate, wrote an open letter to the board on Wednesday evening informing them the auditors discovered three main "serious issues," claiming there was noncompliance of the legislative subpoena, chain of custody issues with the ballots, and evidence of database files being removed from the Election Management System computer.
"After reviewing the letter with County election and IT experts, I can say the allegations are false and ill-informed," Sellers, who is a Republican, wrote in a statement.
"Moreover, the claim that our employees deleted election files and destroyed evidence is outrageous, completely baseless and beneath the dignity of the Arizona Senate. I demand an immediate retraction of any public statements made to the news media and spread via Twitter," Sellers added.
Maricopa Arizona Audit, which asserts to be the official account for the 2020 election review, accused county election officials of deleting files off a server before it was delivered, a claim to which Sellers directly responded: "That would be a crime – and it is not true."
Fann's letter was published shortly after Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs, a stern critic of the Senate-led audit, raised concerns after one of her observers saw a Wi-Fi router connected to audit servers on Tuesday, which could jeopardize the security of election information. Maricopa Arizona Audit shot back: "No wireless was ever enabled."
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Just a guess here, it could be router was hard wired to a work station.
The wireless function of a router can be turned on or off.
By remote also...
You havent stopped beating your wife, have you?
It really comes down to this. Either the directory/files are still there, or they are deleted.
If they are deleted, then either the county is responsible for their spoliation, or Dominion.
Note that I said "responsible" in the sense that it was the job of one or the other to secure that data.
Now is it possible the deep state hacked the server and did the deleting? Sure. All the more reason to let the Cyber auditors do their thing, you know, so as to clear the good names of the county officials and Dominion. They should want to cooperate! Instead of, you know, acting like guilty parties.
“the claim that our employees deleted election files and destroyed evidence is outrageous,”
Sellers probably is being truthful here. Employees didn’t do the deed; Dominion did. It’s Clinton-speak.
First rule of the con. Never give up the con.
Good post there.
That is the fundamental nature of many of these absurdities we see.
Culturally, we have allowed people to “have their own truth”. We have been forced and bullied as a populace to accept nearly any viewpoint as being equally as valid as the next. Someone who is biologically a man insisting he is a woman and vice versa is a good example. Normal people would point out that “Hey, that guy saying he is a woman could also say he is an aardvark, and that would be equally untrue.” but that is no longer allowed by the Left.
I have been saying for decades that the moral and cultural relativism practiced (and worshiped) by the Left are a cancer.
Now, the law has been broken, two groups are saying different things, one group insists, with no proof, that everything was above the board and was legal, and the other group, with seeming mountains of proof, insists there was criminality and fraud.
Both groups can’t be right. But the default thing is to treat the claims of the group with no proof as being equally as valid as those that do have proof.
The group with no proof the election was legally and fairly carried out is attempting with every maneuver from relevant to irrelevant to impede or stop the audit process by simply stating things were done legally and that should, in their view, be the end of it.
Part of me thinks there is a remote possibility they are simply concerned about being criticized for sloppiness, but...I don’t believe even that. Even the stupidest morons would understand that sloppiness is often able to be distinguished from malfeasance.
In this case, sloppiness could easily be screwing up ballot manifests. Unless it is shown that ballots for Trump were being shredded or removed, causing manifests to disagree in some way.
In this case, sloppiness could be accidentally deleting a SQL database. Unless that database contains key evidence and was deleted deliberately less than two weeks before an audit was to commence.
The fact that they are fighting, tooth and nail access to material indicates there was malfeasance.
“Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs, a stern critic of the Senate-led audit, raised concerns after one of her observers saw a Wi-Fi router connected to audit servers on Tuesday, which could jeopardize the security of election information. Maricopa Arizona Audit shot back: “No wireless was ever enabled.””
Connected but not “enabled.”
Then why connect it?
Maricopa County Supervisor Steve Gallardo speaks at a March 22, 2021, press conference. ... Four Maricopa County supervisors won’t face recall elections after a campaign to oust them failed to collect enough signatures. A grassroots conservative group called We the People AZ Alliance took out recall petitions on Dec. 30 against four of the five supervisors: Republicans Bill Gates, Clint Hickman and Jack Sellers, and Democrat Steve Gallardo. Thursday was the deadline to submit the signatures....
Parsing. They had Dominion do it.
IF, and it’s a big if, the election was the “most fair and honest election in history” as we are constantly being told, why are there so many objections and obstructions put in the way of audits meant to verify whether or not it was “fair and honest”?
Good analogy... the Left is like a cancer to this nation, which is metastasizing with incredible acceleration.
“Moreover, the claim that OUR EMPLOYEES deleted election files and destroyed evidence is outrageous, completely baseless and beneath the dignity of the Arizona Senate.
It’s the old MAN OF STRAW game. Fann’s letter says the files appear to “have been deleted”. No allegations that Maricopa “employees” deleted them. So Sellers chooses to respond to something that wasn’t alleged. Gee, could the files have been deleted by ... Dominion as Maricopa’s contractor or some other stooges, rather then Maricopa employees? The BoS has already claimed that only the contractor has passwords.
A general issue.
The AZ Legislature presumably delegated the conduct of election to subordinate entities, including Maricopa County. Did the AZ legislature give Maricopa County the power to delegate the conduct of elections to unaccountable third party contractors? Because that is what apparently happened. Was that legal or Constitutional?
Sellers: If the files exist, produce them. Why are you stonewalling?
Often times I think that the “patient” is terminal.
this what I understand...
“We had previously believed that the risk would be eliminated by redacting the law enforcement data on the routers and not producing it. But we were informed that redaction did not eliminate the risk,” Deputy County Attorney Joseph LaRue wrote in a letter to Senate Audit Liaison Ken Bennett. “We also learned that if criminal elements or others gained access to this data, it might compromise county and federal law enforcement efforts and put the lives of law enforcement personnel at risk.”
The letter from LaRue was prompted by Bennett’s comments to KFYI’s James T. Harris on Monday that Maricopa County officials are not in compliance with subpoenas signed by Senate President Karen Fann and Senate Judiciary Chair Warren Petersen. A judge ruled in February the legislative subpoenas are valid.
The subpoenas resulted in several trucks full of Maricopa County’s elections equipment, records, and nearly 2.1 million original ballots being delivered to Bennett at Veterans Memorial Coliseum for the audit which started April 23.
LaRue’s letter explains that county officials had planned to provide the Senate’s audit team with virtual images of the requested routers, but are not yet sure it is possible to “safely produce router information related to the November 3, 2020 election” without compromising security for criminal justice agencies.
And according to LaRue, providing those images at this time could also put citizens’ confidential data at risk, including social security numbers and protected health information.”
there WERE routers connected to the balloting machines 11/03. They are refusing to turn them over.
The present article notes that the auditors connected THEIR OWN router to a balloting machine. It is quite probable someone was attempting to find a destination IP from the ballot machine by trying to connect it to Wifi. And its prolly why Katie Hobbs went ballistic.
under the best of circumstances Arizona State failed to conduct a “clean election” on behalf of its constituents. It boggles the mind Arizona constituents apparently have no “standing” in their state courts with respect to such a mess. It implies the judicial branch is in collusion with the legislative branch to disenfranchise the states voters-something one would assume is a MASSIVE Civil Rights issue.
Or the router in question was simply posed out front as off, yet another was in a hidden location fully functional wired or wirelessly. So many ways to get around this.
And have multiple ports.
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