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Arizona election auditors: Deleted database recovered, ballot chain-of-custody still missing, dup. ballot serial numbers missing

2021-05-19

[Just the News] Maricopa County's explanation of refusal to share routers, passwords suggests voting machines were connected to internet.

Arizona Senate Republicans tried to ease tensions with Maricopa County officials angry about the ongoing election audit in a special hearing Tuesday.

"This has nothing to do with overturning the election" that Joe Biden won in the state's largest county, Senate President Karen Fann said in her opening statement. She claimed to have always said she doesn't expect to find "intentional wrongdoing" by county officials.

The Board of Supervisors said they wouldn't testify at Tuesday's hearing in their own Monday meeting and formal response to Fann's questions about irregularities and missing data discovered by Senate-hired auditors.

Those auditors updated Fann and Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Warren Petersen on their efforts Tuesday. Cyber Ninjas CEO Doug Logan said he expected to complete the audit by the end of June, blaming technical issues and insufficient staffing for the slow pace.

CyFIR founder Ben Cotton said he had resolved one of the most bitter disputes between Senate Republicans and county officials: the alleged deletion of the main database for the 2020 general election.

Despite finding a "master file table" confirming that a database directory was deleted from the server, Cotton has been able to recover the deleted files and does not need anything more from the county, he told lawmakers. "I think that's some good news," Petersen replied.

Recovered? How very interesting... for some, anyway.

The county does not want to let the issue go. "Maricopa County did not delete files when preparing the subpoenaed SQL server for delivery," it said in a tweet thread shortly after the hearing ended.

Senate Republicans emphasized they were making good-faith efforts to fix ongoing problems with Arizona elections revealed by the audit, including through legislative changes to chain-of-custody requirements.

Bennett was similarly flummoxed by conversations with his county counterpart over the transfer of routers involved in the election, now the subject of a stalemate with Sheriff Paul Penzone.

He offered to send the contractor to Maricopa County Tabulation and Election Center (MCTEC) to inspect the routers "while they were still installed and in place," but his counterpart told Bennett the next day the equipment had already been removed and replaced "at great expense."

And who signed off for that great expense, pray tell?

Serial numbers missing between original, duplicate ballots in Arizona election audit: official

[Just the News] The Arizona Senate's audit of Maricopa County's general election has hit a new snag: verifying whether some ballots may have been counted twice.

The liaison between Senate Republicans who authorized the audit and county officials told a hearing Tuesday that serial numbers were missing on damaged ballots that were duplicated so they could be read by vote tabulation machines.

Former Secretary of State Ken Bennett's team uncovered the error just a few days ago, he told Senate President Karen Fann and Judicial Committee Chair Warren Petersen. Each damaged ballot and its associated duplicate ballot are supposed to have the same serial number to ensure they are only counted once.

But he has found many batches of damaged ballots without the serial numbers that are on the duplicates, violating state law. "We are struggling as to how we're going to be able to match up" those damaged and duplicated ballots, Bennett said.

Posted by:Whains Speatch8051

#7 It will take a little digging.
But look up the name of the database recovered.
It pretty much says volumes in itself.
"Results, Tally and Reporting"

Posted by: NN2N1 2021-05-19 18:29

#6 I hear C4 also works wonders on hard drive security...

Posted by: CrazyFool 2021-05-19 17:50

#5 Soros kicked in $2M to elect Maricopa County sheriff now stonewalling election audit

Posted by: Skidmark 2021-05-19 11:52

#4 I just run a drill through my old hard drives; four holes and toss 'em.

Posted by: Raj 2021-05-19 09:29

#3 You can alway simply replace the HD/SSD and literally shred the old one.

Posted by: CrazyFool 2021-05-19 08:52

#2

Deleted data can be recovered in too many cases.

The DOD 7 and others that do multiple write-overs are as close as it gets to a warm and fuzzy and still using it later feeling.

Examples:
BleachBit & Darik's Boot and Nuke
or the old DOS DEBUG command to low level a hard drive.

Note: There Electron Microscopes and Super Sensitive Magnetic field recorders that can reconstruct multiple layers of data toss, to something looking like a typical SOS Hillary retracted doc.

The only process I feel safe with concerning hard drives, is to disassemble them, sand down the platters with a table sander and tossed whats left in the Fire Pit to melt.

Posted by: NN2N1 2021-05-19 08:45

#1 The Arizona Senate's audit of Maricopa County's general election has hit a new snag: verifying whether some ballots may have been counted twice........

or a few thousand times.

Posted by: Besoeker 2021-05-19 02:45

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