Maybe the are bozos (time and the results will tell that) but this AP article is a bald face lie.
The Maricopa elections data base files were illegally accessed at least 5 times between the end of the election and the time someone ultimately deleted and tried to erase them on 4/12/21 - several days before they were to turned over to the auditors.
The fact who ever deleted the files prior to hand off to the audit team was unsuccessful at permanently wiping the drives and the files were able to be forensically recovered from the data drives does not mean a crime has not been committed. to that the audit team are bozos.
The lies coming out of the Maricopa County elections officials and the media are stunning. One reporterette actually tried to defame the audit team by saying that the auditors were lying because the Az state voter registration data base had not been erased. she actually deliberately tried to conflate the election results and the image files of adjudicated votes with the Az voter registration data base to confuse Arizonans
Fact is 1/3 of the votes have been reviewed and that is more than enough of a sample to prove wide spread irregularities have been uncovered. Fraud is the logical explanation. If there any bozosity at work here it is non the part of Maricopa County and the elections team because they were just to damn incompetent to properly wipe the drives with a mil spec data removal utility so the data could not be reconstructed from the disk volumes
“The Maricopa elections data base files were illegally accessed at least 5 times between the end of the election and the time someone ultimately deleted and tried to erase them on 4/12/21 - several days before they were to turned over to the auditors.”
How can you substantiate that assertion?