Arizona auditors backtrack, say no election data destroyed

AP via Yahoo ^ | May 18th, 2021 | JONATHAN J. COOPER

[Mariner]

PHOENIX (AP) — Firms hired to run a partisan audit of the 2020 election for Senate Republicans in Arizona said Tuesday that data was not destroyed, reversing earlier allegations that election officials in the state's most populated county eliminated evidence.

The claim of deleted databases was amplified by former President Donald Trump and his supporters, who believe conspiracy theories about election irregularities.

Ben Cotton, founder of a computer forensics firm working on the audit, told key senators that he had recovered all data. The revelation came a day after Maricopa County officials released a scathing letter saying the auditors couldn't find the data because they didn't know where to look.

“I have the information I need from the recovery efforts of the data,” said Cotton, founder of CyFIR LLC.

He spoke at a livestreamed hearing called by Republican Senate President Karen Fann to demand answers from county officials about the allegation of deleted data and improper documentation of ballot storage.

The GOP-controlled county Board of Supervisors refused to show up, instead holding a blistering meeting of their own Monday to refute the allegations. They called the audit a “sham” and said Fann's auditors are incompetent.

[ResponseAbility]

***Incomprehensible babble.***

Such a good way to describe your posts.

[Revel]

“I don’t do video and did not watch the hearing.”

But you have no problem doing the AP and the WP no doubt.
If you don’t do real evidence then your word is meaningless.
The video link in post 15 is the closest that anyone could get to real evidence.

[volunbeer]

I agree. I don’t doubt that there were some shenanigans with the machines, but based on what I can decipher it sounds like each state or even each county had some control (or the contractors) over their machines and even then there should still be a paper ballot for each vote tallied.

[kiryandil]

Mariner wrote:

I don’t do video and did not watch the hearing.

[Revel]

Amazing isn’t it?

[BushCountry]

You are daft. Nothing personnel. They are a million dollar company. They cloned the hard drives bit by bit outside of the machine and put the hard drives back.

With these imaged drives they recreated the array and files. They found a deleted database folder and recovered this information. I can not explain this any easier.

Not one byte of data was changed on the original machine. Easy to prove if the folder was deleted by turning on the original machine.

[kiryandil]

back to the top:

video link to the Arizona hearing which proves that Mariner's Ape Pee propaganda original post is a Hamaspuppet lie:

https://rumble.com/vh9633-maricopa-county-election-databases-recovered-arizona..html

[ResponseAbility]

Y***ou’re an idiot***

Says the idjit. Ya, misspelled because you are an idjit.

[Mariner]

You’re calling e a turd?

How adult of you.

Nay, I retract that.

You are emoting like a 12 year old girl.

[kiryandil]

Maybe Mariner is actually Joe Biden, and only understands full adult diapers, Puddin Pops and ShowerDog...

[BushCountry]

If the Cyber Ninja auditors are lying about this then how can we believe anything else they come up with?

Huh, the lie is AP. The so called Cyber Ninja auditors never said the Database folder was not deleted, just that they were able to recover the deleted database.

[FlipWilson]

I’m sorry, this story may be true. BUT, the AP has done nothing NOTHING to deserve any kind of credibility. The AP is to be disbelieved first and must be proven to not be lying.

[kiryandil]

You're actually wedded to your Ape Pee/Hamas terrorist puppet lie.

Thanks for revealing yourself.

[bgill]

Any word about created data?

[Mariner]

Hamas!?!?

Damn, now you emoting like a 12yr old girl with PMS.

[Mariner]

And may you are a stupid slut

[kiryandil]

You're late to the party, Flip:

Mariner wrote, after MUCH prodding [in post #55]:

I don’t do video and did not watch the hearing.

Meanwhile here's a post from yesterday from someone who DID watch the hearing:

https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/3960412/posts?page=8#8

freeper rigelkentaurus: I listened to the Senate hearing this afternoon. What CNN stated is false, surprise surprise. What the auditor said was the data WAS deleted, but that they were able to successfully recovery it fully and that the issue is moot from there audit viewpoint as they now have the data.

Who deleted it and when is still an open question, and that is certainly destruction of evidence and in violation of AZ election law. Doubt it will be pursued, but the reality is completely different than CNN claims.

[Ingtar]

If it was not deleted, it would not have had to be recovered.

[BushCountry]

I agree. I don’t doubt that there were some shenanigans with the machines, but based on what I can decipher it sounds like each state or even each county had some control (or the contractors) over their machines and even then there should still be a paper ballot for each vote tallied.

To anyone that listened to the hearing would know that this is not even close to the truth. I repeat.

Several stacks of batches of ballots (200 votes) not linked to when the batch was run on the voting machine (impossible to trace or track they were entered), spoilage ballots not linked to the voter’s ballot (impossible to determine voter’s intent), ballot counts way off, and no chain of custody for thousands of ballots.

[Seven_0]

If the previous data is never overwritten by new data then the data remains and performing operations to recover it is mostly inconsequential if you know how to do it.

Even if the data are overwritten they can be recovered.