Arizona

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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EMS Compiler Installed – Capable of Generating New Executables During Live Election (AZ)

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Disputed Fact Cotton’s forensic presentation to the Arizona Senate documented that a compiler was installed on the Maricopa EMS – a tool providing the ability to modify and create executable files and drivers on the fly that could alter election results without detection. Evidence showed that new executable files were created at least three times

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EMS OS and Antivirus Unpatched Since August 2019 – Contradictory CISA Guidance (AZ)

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Established Fact The Cyber Ninjas audit documented as an established fact that neither the EMS operating system nor its antivirus software had been patched or updated since August 2019 – the date of Dominion’s software installation – meaning Maricopa ran a presidential election on a system with 15+ months of unaddressed CVEs. Maricopa County contended

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Post-Certification Software Alterations – 45 EXEs and 1,053 DLLs Modified (AZ)

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Disputed Fact Forensic cybersecurity analyst Ben Cotton (CyFIR), retained by the Arizona Senate audit, documented that after the Dominion software installation 45 .exe packages and 1,053 .dll files were modified, and 4 .exe files and 377 .dll files were newly created on the EMS system. Cotton stated: “The machine behavior settings (MBS) and the database

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Post-Election Forensic Audit Scope Insufficient to Validate or Refute Hardware Configuration – Internal Inspection Refused (AZ)

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Established Fact Post-election forensic examinations of Maricopa County’s voting systems conducted by certified test laboratories, including Pro V&V and SLI Compliance, were structurally limited to external reviews, removable-media imaging, and software-level analysis. No auditor was permitted to conduct internal hardware inspections of the tabulator units – the “lift the hood” examination that would verify whether

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Defective L&A Testing Using Zero-Voter “NVP” Synthetic Precincts (AZ)

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Disputed Fact Maricopa County publicly represented its 2020 tabulator deployment as consisting of ImageCast Precinct 2 (ICP2) optical scan units. However, multiple independent forensic indicators establish that the devices operated on Election Day were ImageCast Evolution (ICE) units: EMS configuration files consistently identified the tabulators as ICE devices, not ICP2 units; SLOG verification logs and

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Unapproved Hardware Substitution – Tabulators Identified as ICE Devices Despite ICP2 Representation; Procurement Records Corroborate Substitution (AZ)

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Reasonable Inference Maricopa County publicly represented its 2020 tabulator deployment as consisting of ImageCast Precinct 2 (ICP2) optical scan units. However, multiple independent forensic indicators establish that the devices operated on Election Day were ImageCast Evolution (ICE) units: EMS configuration files consistently identified the tabulators as ICE devices, not ICP2 units; SLOG verification logs and

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Surreptitious Software Alteration – Tabulation Components Deviated from Certified Build; L&A Testing Conducted on Only Five Spare Tabulators (AZ)

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Disputed Fact System log files reviewed during post-election forensic analysis indicate that Maricopa County’s tabulation software was surreptitiously altered in components that control how ballots are read – the core functional module of any optical scan tabulator. This alteration rendered the deployed software an uncertified build not matching the EAC-approved Dominion Democracy Suite 5.5B golden

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Unauthorized Dual-Boot Configuration on Adjudication Endpoint (AZ)

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Established Fact Forensic review of Maricopa County’s election network discovered a dual-boot configuration on the “Adjudication 02” endpoint workstation. The system contained two internal hard drives, both capable of booting to different operating environments. The second drive contained non-county, non-election data whose provenance has not been publicly disclosed. A certified election system is required to

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EMS SQL Database Purged of 2020 Election Results Prior to Forensic Audit – 263,139 Corrupt and 21,273 Missing Ballot Images (AZ)

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Established Fact The Maricopa County EMS SQL Database was purged of all 2020 General Election results by an administrator account in the period immediately prior to the forensic audit team gaining access. Forensic examiners found that: (1) the database contained 263,139 corrupt and unreadable ballot images – digital records that should allow tally reconciliation to

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