Arizona

Spoliation of Evidence Prior to Senate Forensic Audit (AZ)

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Established Fact The Maricopa County Recorder’s office deleted the entire 2020 General Election database from the Dominion EMS server and purged SQL logs the day before the Arizona Senate’s Cyber Ninjas forensic audit began, permanently eliminating native election-period system logs. When a backup was later restored, approximately 263,139 ballot images were corrupt and unreadable and […]

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Maricopa County Refused to Cooperate with Senate Audit (AZ)

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Established Fact Arizona Senate President Karen Fann documented in her September 24, 2021 letter to Attorney General Mark Brnovich that Maricopa County and its vendors – including Dominion Voting Systems – did not cooperate with the Senate-authorized audit and recount. This constitutes an affirmative act of obstruction against a lawfully authorized legislative oversight function. Because

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Database Purge the Day Before Audit/Recount – Destruction of Digital Baseline (AZ)

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Established Fact Forensic analysis conducted during the Arizona Senate-ordered Cyber Ninjas audit revealed that the Maricopa County Recorder’s office deleted the entire 2020 General Election database from the Election Management System (EMS) – including all activity logs – in the days following a court order directing Maricopa County to produce election materials to the Arizona

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EMS Software Deviation from Certified Configuration at Time of Board Canvass (AZ)

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Established Fact [Established Fact – As to software configuration] The forensic analysis conducted by Ben Cotton of CyFIR documented that the Maricopa County EMS contained an unauthorized compiler capable of creating and executing files during the active voting period – a capability not present in the EAC-certified Dominion Democracy Suite 5.5B configuration. The Cotton analysis,

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Canvass Board Knew of EMS Software Deviation from Certified Configuration at Time of Board Canvass (AZ)

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Disputed Fact [Disputed Fact – As to Board knowledge at time of certification] The forensic analysis conducted by Ben Cotton of CyFIR documented that the Maricopa County EMS contained an unauthorized compiler capable of creating and executing files during the active voting period – a capability not present in the EAC-certified Dominion Democracy Suite 5.5B

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Certification Despite Protocol Non-Compliance and Post-Certification Board Obstruction (AZ)

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Established Fact The Maricopa County Board of Supervisors certified the county’s 2020 general election results despite documented, forensically confirmed non-compliance with critical election security protocols. The Cyber Ninjas forensic audit documented that the Dominion Democracy Suite EMS software was materially altered from its certified “golden image” configuration, that all user accounts on all election systems

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Election Machines Accessed the Internet (AZ)

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Established Fact In the Sept. 24 hearing, CyFIR revealed and showed that not only can these ballot machines access the internet, but in Maricopa County they did access the internet. In the hearing, CyFIR provided the time & date stamps to prove it as well as the IP addresses of the computers they connected to.

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EMS Server Internet History & Enabled Remote Services (AZ)

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Established Fact Forensic analysis of the Maricopa County EMS server and client workstations revealed 59 open ports at boot, active IPv6, and enabled Terminal Services and Remote Access features. Unallocated hard drive space yielded artifacts of internet connections to public URLs and foreign entities on devices officials represented as strictly air-gapped. The audit team found

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COVID-19 Restrictions Invoked to Limit Observation of L&A Testing (AZ)

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Reasonable Inference Maricopa County leveraged COVID-19 social-distancing protocols to restrict the number and proximity of public observers permitted to witness L&A testing sessions. The practical effect was that observers were unable to verify machine serial numbers against test tapes, confirm that the same machines tested were the same machines deployed, or meaningfully observe the testing

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Failure to Test Production Tabulators – Only Five Spare Units Tested (AZ)

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Established Fact Contrary to representations made to the district court and the public, Maricopa County did not conduct statutorily mandated pre-election L&A testing on all its active vote-center tabulators prior to the November 2020 election. Instead, county officials tested only five spare tabulators – units not deployed to vote centers – leaving the actual production

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