Arizona

Unpatched EMS Operating System and Plaintext FIPS Decryption Keys (AZ)

Arizona, Dominion, Electronic Voting System Integrity, Established Fact, Maricopa County, Security Negligence, United States /

Established Fact The Dominion EMS server’s operating system and antivirus software were not patched or updated after August 6, 2019 – the date of initial installation – leaving the system exposed to all known exploits disclosed during the subsequent 14 months before the November 2020 election, including the entire pre-election deployment period. More critically, Dominion […]

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iButton Authentication Hardware Retained by Vendor – County Had No Independent System Access (AZ)

Arizona, Dominion, Electronic Voting System Integrity, Established Fact, Maricopa County, Security Negligence, United States /

Established Fact The Cyber Ninjas audit confirmed as an established fact that Maricopa County did not possess the administrative iButtons required to independently access, configure, or validate its Dominion tabulation systems. Only Dominion Voting Systems held these tokens. The Senate cover letter stated: “No private company should be trusted with the keys to our democracy.

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DOJ Attempt to Halt Arizona Legislative Audit via Intimidation (AZ)

Arizona, Established Fact, Intimidation, United States, Weaponization of Government /

Established Fact The U.S. Department of Justice Civil Rights Division sent a letter to Arizona Senate Majority Leader Karen Fann attempting to halt the Maricopa County forensic audit. The DOJ warned that citizen canvassers conducting lawful voter registration verification could be construed as intimidating to minorities, weaponizing federal civil rights statutes to suppress a constitutionally

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DOJ Letter to Arizona Senate Threatening to Halt State Legislative Audit (AZ)

Arizona, Established Fact, Intimidation, United States, Weaponization of Government /

Established Fact The DOJ’s Deputy Assistant Attorney General sent a letter to Arizona Senate Majority Leader Karen Fann attempting to prohibit the state Senate’s forensic audit of Maricopa County election systems – characterizing state legislative oversight of a state election as a potential federal concern, and threatening federal intervention if the audit proceeded. Citations Letter

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Shared Single Password Across All EMS, EMS Client, ICC, HiPro, and Adjudication Systems (AZ)

Arizona, Dominion, Electronic Voting System Integrity, Established Fact, Maricopa County, Security Negligence, United States /

Established Fact The Cyber Ninjas audit documented that a single, identical password was used for all user accounts on all EMS, EMS client, adjudication, HiPro scanner, and ICC workstations – credentials installed by Dominion during the August 6, 2019 system installation and never changed through the date of the audit, a period exceeding two years

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DOJ Letter Threatening Arizona Senate Audit – Chilling Effect on Legal Counsel (AZ)

Arizona, Featured, Intimidation, Judicial Malfeasance, Lawfare, Reasonable Inference, United States, Weaponization of Government /

Reasonable Inference The U.S. Department of Justice, through its Deputy Assistant Attorney General, transmitted a letter to Arizona Senate Majority Leader Karen Fann explicitly attempting to halt the Arizona Senate’s legislatively authorized forensic audit of Maricopa County election systems. This federal intrusion into a state legislative oversight function – using DOJ letterhead and implying federal

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Severe Sampling Limitations in Ward v. Jackson (AZ)

Arizona, Court Procedure, Established Fact, Judicial Malfeasance, United States /

Established Fact The state court restricted forensic document examiners to reviewing only 100 randomly selected mail-in ballots for signature comparisons and evaluated only 1,626 duplicated ballots. The court concluded errors were statistically negligible and dismissed the case, preventing a statistically significant or comprehensive forensic audit of Maricopa County ballots. The arbitrarily narrow discovery perimeter precluded

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Attorney Sanctions Used to Deter Election Integrity Litigation in Arizona Election Cases (AZ)

Arizona, Attorney Sanctions, Disputed Fact, Judicial Malfeasance, United States /

Disputed Fact The Maricopa County Superior Court ordered the Arizona Republican Party and its lawyers to pay opposing counsel’s fees after they sued over Maricopa County’s 2020 election procedures and sought a broader hand‑count audit. In doing so, the court labeled the lawsuit “groundless” and said it was brought for the “improper purpose” of undermining

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Systemic Speed of Post-Election Dismissals Precluded Forensic Evidence Presentation – Statewide (AZ)

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Established Fact [Established Fact – Timing of dismissals vs. completion of audits] Multiple Arizona post-election challenges were dismissed in December 2020 – within weeks of election certification – on standing, mootness, or procedural grounds. The Cyber Ninjas audit was not completed until September 2021, and forensic analyses by Ben Cotton (CyFIR) and Jovan Pulitzer were

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Ward v. Jackson, No. CV2020-015285 (Ariz. S. Ct.) – Decision Rested on Proven Falsehood (AZ)

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Reasonable Inference [Reasonable Inference – Court decision rested on incorrect factual predicate] In Ward v. Jackson, No. CV-20-0343-AP/EL (Ariz. Dec. 8, 2020), the Arizona Supreme Court rejected a challenge to the 2020 presidential election results in which the central dispute concerned the accuracy of ballot duplication — a process in which damaged or defective ballots

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