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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This is a rare “good news” headline from Yahoo, right?
They’ll just get “fresh” democrat tainted machines
LOL. Suddenly pretend journalist cares about "chain of custody". If the state legislature AUTHORIZED the transfer, the CHAIN OF CUSTODY was NOT broken, as it was done at the direction of the body with the power to direct the action. And by the way, pretend journalist says Cyber Ninja's aren't legit? Says who? The elected officials of Arizona trust them.
The voting machines must have had dementia, just like the “president” they elected.
They are admitting the machines could be used to fix an election.
No, they’re accusing the GOP of having “tampered” with the machines during the audit. Or at least that’s the public reason…possibly the audit is turning up problems with the machines, and they know they’re not going to be able to get away with reusing them and want to get in before the publicity. Or possibly they just want a fresh batch of machines to fiddle with for the next election.
So, is Mark Zuckerberg going to buy them all new machines?
This was precisely why the county board of supervisors refused to let the state senate perform the audit at the board’s offices. Instead, they forced the auditors to move the ballots to another location, just so that they could later claim that chain of custody was broken. We could see this coming all along.
But, but, yer honor!! These people are unqualified and stupid and, and,,, if they tampered with the machines they can steal an election! Er, I mean NO! I didn't mean that yer honor! The election couldn't be stolen with a compromised machine! Well, I don't know what I mean yer honor! SHOOT! C'mon man! Give me a break! These Republicans are trying to steal the next election with tampering with the machines! Can't ya see what they are doin' yer honor?
I think the actual narrative is these machines are now tainted BECAUSE of the audit and new ones will need to be purchased thanks to the AZ GOP
Not really. They are implying that the Republicans would rig the machines.
Yeah. After they are done with them it will show they are cheating machines. They should get away from dominion all together. That machine is forever tainted.
It’s less about the machine than the software.
AZ needs to go back to dumb voting machines.
Class A bull**** !!! Before the Senate took control of the machines, the Sec of States office had the software on the machines ( along with a hash of the software ) put in escrow. When the machine are returned, all they have to do is take a hash of the software. If it didn’t change, it was not tampered with.
In order to bring back confidence in voting they almost would need to go back to hand counting with both sides watching. Or Florida has a descent system.
No, they don’t.
FL has the RCV enabled machines, too.
I’m betting that’s how FL almost ended up with Gov. Gillum.
Thankfully we got DeSantis.
We were only a few votes shy of ending up with a drug infused fag for governor. Then again, he is a democrat so these are not dis enablers.
They want all new machines to tamper with.
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