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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Complete bozos.
This is a bald face lie. Quit believing it!
Someone is working from the inside to screw all this up.
yes jump on the AP/Yahoo bandwagon
Liars. The data was destroyed, the auditors were simply able to recover it. Next time you are arrested, try it. I guarantee you, they will nail you for destruction of evidence. Does not matter if they are able to reconstruct it later.
Partisan auditors… right.
This entire article is propaganda
“JONATHAN J. COOPER” of the Ape Pee
Data does not need to be recovered unless it was deleted. Why did Maricopa County break the law and attempt to destroy election data? These bastards need to be thrown into jail for a very long time.
You just lost so much face.
This story is a complete fabrication. Find previous stories about this on FR for video evidence that this is a lie. Don’t ever trust the lying MSM.
They did not backtrack. They got check mated!
The auditors are extremely competent. Why are some Freepers acting so stupid?
There were thousands of administrative problems? Several stacks of batches of ballots not linked to when the batch was run on the voting machine (impossible to trace or track these), spoilage ballots not linked to the voter’s ballot (impossible to determine voter’s intent), ballot counts way off, and yes the database deliberately deleted, easily proven (see below).
Oh yeah... EVERYONE IS MISSING A VERY IMPORTANT POINT.
I listened to the testimony and it can be proven beyond a shadow of a doubt who is telling the truth. That is the best reason to believe the folder was deliberately erased.
The expert testified he never turned on the computer with the arrays in the machine. That is not something his company does. If they receive a computer that is turned off they take the drives out and make a bit-by-bit computer of the drives. They use a completely different machine and specialized software for data analyst.
They never turn the machine on or modify the original device. So, if the folder was erased it is on the original machine! They can prove the county is lying by simply turning on the machine.
Now with this fact in hand, do you believe the expert would lie when it would be so easy to discredit him? Thus destroying his and his company’s reputation. The Auditor IT’s company is highly respected and not a mom and pop outfit. They have worked for multinational corporations and three-letter agencies.
It was destroyed but later recovered
“This is a bald face lie.”
And, just what is the lie you are referring to?
Are you saying a very public retraction of the charge that the data was deleted is a lie?
Or that these folks are bozos is a lie?
Sorry ConservativeInPA. Do not believe my comment was directed at you. I was calling out all the Freepers believing CNN and this AP story.
Yeah, but the AP would never lie to me.
Shouldn’t the headline be along the lines of:
Intentionally Deleted date Recovered in Arizona Audit!
American Presstitutes!
As someone pointed out in a previous post, “completely fraudulent” is a term that is becoming quite popular when one considers the news media...
Are you saying a very public retraction of the charge that the data was deleted is a lie?
Yes completely. They never said the Database folder was not deleted. They just said they were able to recover it!!!!!
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