Arizona authorities are investigating theft of device that allows access to vote tabulators

MSN.com ^ | June 25, 2024 | Nicholas Riccardi

[Twotone]

PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona authorities on Tuesday said they were investigating whether a 27-year-old temporary election worker in the state's largest county had political motivations when he stole a fob that would allow him access to vote tabulators just before the July 30 primary.

“This is not your average theft,” Maricopa County Sheriff Russ Skinner said at a news conference in Phoenix, adding that he had no information yet on the suspect's beliefs.

Skinner said authorities were reviewing Walter Ringfield's social media feeds and phone to determine whether he was working with anyone when he took the small black fob that allows access to the tabulators used in the county, which has been the subject of election conspiracy theories ever since President Joe Biden narrowly beat former President Donald Trump in the state four years ago.

Trump falsely claimed there was massive fraud in Maricopa, leading to Republican lawmakers launching an error-riddled review of the ballot count and a long string of threats against the local GOP officials who stood by their staff's tallies. As the county geared up for the primary — in which the Republican county recorder and a Republican county supervisors are being challenged by election conspiracy theorists — it hired more than 2,000 temporary workers to help with the election.

[rdcbn1]

Arizonas voting system, once one of the most secure in the nation, has been completely restructured to facilitate vote fraud at all levels.

In addition to fraud and manipulation plagued voting machines, you no longer vote using pre printed secure ballots at your local precinct.

You can vote at any precinct in the county and an unsecured commercial laser printer prints out the ballot for your local election precinct and then tries to read the results of the ballot and enters them into an unsecured data base.

You can vote in Maricopa County in the City of Mesa local election in a precinct in the City of Glendale 50 miles away. The precinct in the City of Glendale prints out a demand City of Mesa ballot on an unsecured commercial laser printer, reads it on a City of Glendale vote tabulator and somehow counted. The hard copy ballot never even makes it to the City of Mesa - just an easily manipulated or altered digital image copy

The system is an absolute disaster in practice and it makes fraud inevitable as there is no way to audit the results because the process is fundamentally not auditable by design

[Buck-Toothed Knuckle Dragger]

Arizona is a swing state. It will be close, as will the other swing states.
YOU CAN BET that similar efforts are ongoing or already in the bag in Georgia, Pennsylvania (where everyone involved right with vote counting in the major districts - down to the foot soldiers- is a Democrat), Michigan, and North Carolina. This theft is one effort in one state among a multitude of things ongoing as I type, including ballot harvesting and voter-roll manipulation(s). Others include ‘get out the vote’ efforts at retirement homes and hospice centers where EVERY SINGLE BALLOT is filled out by someone else.
They know exactly what they are doing.
They have a completely compliant media.
They know no law-enforcement agency will stop them. In fact they will help.
They have laws in place (mail-in voting and no ID requirements)
What is being done?

NOTHING. This week’s debate is like the elephant show at the circus - a distraction.

[Chewbarkah]

If all it takes to compromise the integrity ofthe system is the loss of one thumb drive out of the many issued to employees, then the system is unacceptable.

[cpdiii]

The FOB has no intrinsic value. Probably just a thumb drive. However, it has great value by granting access to the computer. Its value is for vote rigging the outcome of an election.

Question: Why steal the FOB unless you want to rig an election.

[MayflowerMadam]

“Why steal the FOB unless you want to rig an election.”

I think he just wanted to copy some tunes to play in the car. Jackson Five. Temptations.

[Vaduz]

Sounds right just about anything that holds data can be tracked or hacked even your auto will rat you out.

[subterfuge]

So the thief is in jail right?

[Mr. K]

For a FOb to do anything at all it has to be PROGRAMMED to steal the election.

The computer only does exactly what it is told to do.

I do this stuff for a living. I could be called into court as an expert witness.