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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google knows what they mean
Whatever....jerkwad...
“there’s been no use of the word “deleted” since.”
You’re wrong about that.
https://twitter.com/ArizonaAudit/status/1395148049647812608
Statement from Ben Cotton of Cyfir: My testimony on May 19th before the AZ Senate is being taken out of context by some media outlets. To confirm: the “Databases” directory on the EMS Primary Server *** WAS deleted *** containing the voting databases.
I was able to recover the deleted databases through forensic data recovery processes. We are performing data continuity checks to ensure that the recovered databases are usable.
Well look here. More actual evidence that the files were deleted and that the article is full of Shi*:
1/2) Statement from Ben Cotton of Cyfir: My testimony on May 19th before the AZ Senate is being taken out of context by some media outlets. To confirm: the “Databases” directory on the EMS Primary Server WAS deleted containing the voting databases.
2/2) I was able to recover the deleted databases through forensic data recovery processes. We are performing data continuity checks to ensure that the recovered databases are usable.
https://twitter.com/arizonaaudit?lang=en
Your tag line: 👍
It is more evident as each day passes.
I suppose you could call entering the correct RAID parameters a "forensic data recovery process".
Despite what some gaslighting trolls are posting.
No fibbie bootleather around this week, apparently...
There are multiple assertions that it was not deleted as well.
The only assertions of that are by the crooks themselves. And since they are the only ones that you consider credible then I think it says a lot about what you think.
You are the best friend of the cheaters because they are the only ones that you support. And here we are living in a banana republic because of people like you who effectively support vote fraud.
Only stupid people believe the steal happened in the count.
The steal happened in the streets with ballot harvesting.
Several hundred thousand individual election crimes.
You are lost.
>>It was never deleted.
>>It was in a location they didn’t look.
BOOM!
Arizona Auditor: Did Not Backtrack on Election Database Deletion Allegation
Theepochtimes.com ^ | 20 May, 2021 | Zachary Stieber
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3961029/posts
“My testimony on May 19th before the AZ Senate is being taken out of context by some media outlets. To confirm: the ‘Databases’ directory on the EMS Primary Server WAS deleted containing the voting databases. I was able to recover the deleted databases through forensic data recovery processes,” Ben Cotton, founder of CyFIR, said in a statement emailed to The Epoch Times by the audit’s liaison.
I’ll tell you what that alphabet soup means; it means poster has already forgotten more obsolete information about computers than Election Officials in Maricopa County will ever know.
Although, when working with government, it’s better not to forget the obsolete stuff, so...
There is a screenshot showing the files as deleted on April 12th. They plainly were. The only questions are ‘why’, and ‘was this faked’? Each answer would need some evidence. Incompetence is not a question.
Actually if you looked at the testimony you’d see that regardless of what happened, the AP story is a direct lie. The County gave an explanation for the deletion in a later part, as it being part of backing up the files and clearing space in the active device. That may or may not turn out to be true and even reasonable, but the files were deleted and the auditors did not backtrack.
It was never deleted.
It was in a location they didn’t look.
Even if the data are overwritten they can be recovered.
I am a retired CCNP, CISSP and PMP.
CISSP - Certified Information Systems Security Professional. It means he understands firewalls and security architecture.
PMP - Project Management Professional. It means he understands how to keep track of projects.
These are all adjacent to what is being discussed, but not actually what is being discussed.
I've some letters that I earned too.
RRT, CPFT, NPS....and not many people know what they stand for either.....
“The County gave an explanation for the deletion in a later part, as it being part of backing up the files and clearing space in the active device. That may or may not turn out to be true and even reasonable, but the files were deleted and the auditors did not backtrack.”
Quite common, especially if the database and the application were running on the same device. Offloading the DB files to back-up before shutdown, deleting them from the server.
If they were running on VMWare, there could be several copies that look like they’re been deleted.
When they’ve only been moved.
““Results Tally and Reporting,” is not located anywhere on the EMSPrimary machine, even though all of the EMS Clients reference that machine as the location of the database. This suggests that the main database for all election related data for the November 2020 General Election has been removed.”
That clip from the letter should tell you all you need to know. Clients do not write directly to a database. They send their updates to the application, which writes to the database.
The most common configuration for any application is that the application and the database run on different servers, even if they reside on the same machine. Since this is a SQL database, it is necessarily so.
The ONLY question to be answered is whether the county provided a full copy of the original database along with the application.
The county says they did. The auditor stays focused on “EMSPrimary” looking for a database that may have been residing on that physical server temporarily pending batch updates to the SQL server (which may have been located on that physical platform too).
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