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Arizona auditors backtrack, say no election data destroyed
AP via Yahoo ^ | May 18th, 2021 | JONATHAN J. COOPER

Posted on 05/19/2021 8:51:50 AM PDT by 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.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; News/Current Events; US: Arizona
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To: kiryandil

Depressing that so many can’t watch a short video clip and learn the truth about what was said. It makes me wonder what the reason for that is. Either many people choose to remain ignorant or else they are here for some nefarious reason.


101 posted on 05/19/2021 9:53:53 AM PDT by Revel
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To: Mariner
There are about three or four TransFreepers promoting this BS narrative to try to invalidate the audit.

Just another reason to wish that FR had a "block" function.
102 posted on 05/19/2021 9:55:09 AM PDT by Antoninus (Republicans are all honorable men.)
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To: Howie66; dware; pas
The way that this report is worded is something to behold. Talk about spinning a story to appear to be something other than what it truly is.

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.

actual Arizona hearing:

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

103 posted on 05/19/2021 9:55:40 AM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: pas
Probably does not matter what they find now after this.
That being the intended result of dishonestly using the word backtrack in the headline.
104 posted on 05/19/2021 9:55:59 AM PDT by eastsider
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To: ResponseAbility
Your tag line: 👍
105 posted on 05/19/2021 9:57:11 AM PDT by Pajamajan ( PRAY FOR OUR NATION. I will never be a peaceful slave in a new Socialist America.)
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To: Antoninus
See post #103.

The original poster admitted in post #55 that he hadn't watched the hearing, and WON'T.

Just continue to promote and defend Ape Pee/XiNN lies.

106 posted on 05/19/2021 9:57:33 AM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: kiryandil; Mariner

Maybe we should refer to him as Mariknoughty? Juvenile, but after this thread it is almost mandatory.


107 posted on 05/19/2021 9:59:14 AM PDT by ResponseAbility (-The truth of liberalism is the stupid can feel smart, the lazy entitled, and the immoral unashamed)
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To: pas

And you just became brainwashed by a MSM story. As was their wish. If you can’t see that you are being manipulated then they win.


108 posted on 05/19/2021 10:00:06 AM PDT by Revel
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To: Osage Orange

Yeah because the two of you are so brilliant as to bring up the smell of urine with your posts indicating the other guy is reporting fake news when in fact you both are too. There is no urine involved but you evidently choose out of your own desire to think of that.

You disgust me.


109 posted on 05/19/2021 10:00:27 AM PDT by Beowulf9
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To: Mariner

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

Trump’s fault!


110 posted on 05/19/2021 10:01:16 AM PDT by TribalPrincess2U
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To: Mariner

Wait a minute. The original claim was that the database(s) had been deleted. They subsequently found a means of recovering the data. That doesn’t make the original claim false. It simply means that the people who tried to hide it failed to delete all traces of the files and the forensic company was astute enough to find them.


111 posted on 05/19/2021 10:01:54 AM PDT by JewishRighter
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To: TribalPrincess2U
FakeNews:

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.

actual Arizona hearing:

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

112 posted on 05/19/2021 10:03:14 AM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: JewishRighter
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.

actual Arizona hearing:

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

114 posted on 05/19/2021 10:03:38 AM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: Mariner
I don’t do video and did not watch the hearing.

But you do AP and CNN.

115 posted on 05/19/2021 10:04:31 AM PDT by FreeReign
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To: FreeReign

He wants the straight scoop from Hamas and Xi.


116 posted on 05/19/2021 10:08:05 AM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: All
"The AP says the audit is incompetent! Oh noes, Oh noes, oh noes, oh noes!"


117 posted on 05/19/2021 10:08:14 AM PDT by fidelis (Defeatism and despair are like poison to men's souls. If you can't be positive, at least be quiet.)
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To: Beowulf9

ROFLOL!!!!


118 posted on 05/19/2021 10:09:44 AM PDT by Osage Orange (DRT)
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To: kiryandil
What the auditor said was the data WAS deleted, but that they were able to successfully recovery it fully...

I listened to the testimony too and that isn't what he said.

He was very careful to say he encountered an MFT that indicated the file had been deleted but according to the County that's because he had misconfigured or didn't understand the RAID scheme in use. This caused his software to flag a file as deleted when in fact it hadn't been.

He never said the data had actually been deleted.

Read this for a more thorough explanation.

If the County did, in fact, delete the database while under such scrutiny it could only mean there must be a smoking gun there. They would never risk tampering unless there was something incredibly incriminating.

Now that the Cyber Ninjas have "recovered" it I can't wait to hear their bombshell revelations about what was in the forbidden database.

119 posted on 05/19/2021 10:10:07 AM PDT by semimojo
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To: Revel
...where he says that he recovered the “deleted” files?

He didn't say that. See 119.

120 posted on 05/19/2021 10:11:23 AM PDT by semimojo
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