Maricopa County

Canvassing Revealed Up To 173,000 Missing Ballots In Maricopa County (AZ)

Established Fact During the canvass, individuals were interviewed at their residence that were registered to vote in Maricopa County but whom the county did not record a vote. Of those interviewed, 34.23% of these people said they had actually voted in the 2020 election. 34.23 % of these residents had voted, but no vote was […]

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Missing Chain-of-Custody Documentation for EPB Records – Audit Liaison Finding (AZ)

Established Fact The Arizona State Senate’s Audit Liaison, Ken Bennett, formally documented that Maricopa County failed to produce chain-of-custody documentation required by A.R.S. § 16-621(E) for election equipment and ballots during the active election period. This gap directly implicates the Sitebook EPB records: without chain-of-custody documentation, it is impossible to determine whether the EPB logs

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EPB “Sitebook” Mid-Election Software Update – Multiple Ballots Issued Per Voter Without Override Alert (AZ)

Established Fact During active voting on November 3, 2020, a software update was deployed to the “Sitebooks” – Maricopa County’s electronic poll book system – that resulted in the electronic poll book issuing multiple ballots to a single voter without triggering any alert or requiring supervisor override. A poll worker testified under oath that the

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EMS Security Event Log Configured to Auto-Overwrite – Election Day Logs Destroyed (AZ)

Established Fact The EMS server’s Windows Security Event Log was configured with a maximum retention size of 20 MB and set to automatically overwrite older entries when full. As a consequence, the earliest log entry preserved at the time of forensic audit was dated February 5, 2021 – not November 3, 2020. Every access event,

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Single Shared Password Across All EMS Components – Never Rotated Through 2020 Election (AZ)

Established Fact The credentials (usernames and passwords) for all EMS server components – EMS workstations, adjudication workstations, HiPro scanners, and ICC workstations – were created during the Dominion software installation on August 6, 2019, and were never changed from that date through the delivery of systems for forensic audit following the 2020 election: a period

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

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)

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

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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Ward v. Jackson – Government Counsel’s Representation to Arizona Supreme Court That Ballots Were Segregated; Physical State of Ballot Corpus Inconsistent with Representation (AZ)

Reasonable Inference In Ward v. Jackson, Arizona Supreme Court Case No. CV2020-015285, the Secretary of State’s counsel represented to the court that the challenged ballots had been segregated and preserved in a manner that would permit the relief requested. The Cyber Ninjas audit, completed in September 2021, found that the physical ballot corpus was not

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Alleged RICO Bribery Network Among Maricopa County Superior Court Judges – Harris/Thaler Law Firm Criminal Investigation (AZ)

Reasonable Inference [Reasonable Inference aspect of this finding] An extensive investigation by the Harris/Thaler Law Firm, submitted as a formal brief in Maricopa County Superior Court criminal case CR2021-134056, alleged that public officials – including more than two dozen judges of the Maricopa County Superior Court – accepted bribes to protect racketeering enterprises and to

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