If/When those routers are actually looked at, be prepared to be disappointed, they are not going to show anything...
The reason they are not releasing them is the shiny object meant to distract you away from more important issues....
My experience as a Network Engineer, working only on Cisco System Routers and Switches, which I’m pretty sure Maricopa County is using.....
Routers don’t store any information other than their OS and Configuration Files, they don’t have hard drives or any type of mass storage device, by default they do not capture packets, capturing packets has to be configured and sent to a Log Server, however the overwhelming majority of customers DO NOT capture packets of any kind unless a problem occurs...
Let’s assume the routers had incriminating information on them, it could only be contained in the actual configuration of the router, that can be changed in a matter of minutes....if someone was up to something in Maricopa County, a quick configuration change could easily wipe out anything incriminating and no one would ever know...remember the election was months ago....
Asking for the Routers is a waste of time...I wish those involved in the audit would realize that and keep to more important issues...
The routers have IP addresses time stamped on tables. That means they know what computers talked to what computers and when they talked.
If the voting machines aren’t hacked they aren’t communicating during the election. If they are hacked, then the IP address will tell you which computers they were talking to.
You may not be able to track an IP to a physical location, like China, but you know that the election “wasn’t safe and secure”.
They are withholding them to prevent people from knowing it was “fun and computer games” and NOT a real election.
So you agree their reason for not turning them over is complete BS. I know that routers don’t store any packet data, but they do have access logs that could, for example, reviews unauthorized access or access attempts. That said, you are probably right - there won’t be any Earth-shattering revelations if and when they get the routers. You mentioned “more important issues”. What do you consider those more important issues?