Disputed Fact [Disputed Fact 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 […]
Established Fact Fortunately, in the AZ Senate audit, a company by the name of CyFIR was contracted to investigate the hardware, machines, tabulators, etc used in the election. CyFIR found and showed that the Maricopa County Recorder’s office actually deleted the entire 2020 General election results from their system the day before an audit and
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Established Fact Ballot boxes delivered to auditors contained commingled original and duplicate ballots, inconsistently identified, with batch manifests not matching physical contents. In at least one documented box (EVH1/11-07/MC17349), the manifest listed 14 batches of originals while the physical contents contained 7 originals and 8 duplicates with one batch entirely unaccounted. During prior Arizona Supreme
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Disputed Fact The Cyber Ninjas audit found 284,412 ballot images on the EMS were “corrupt or missing.” Files were additionally found missing from the EMS server. Maricopa County contested the characterization; Cyber Ninjas responded that their team included certified forensic examiners and that the County’s own actions – creating new executable files and modifying thousands
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Established Fact Maricopa County failed to produce to the Arizona State Senate the chain-of-custody documentation required by A.R.S. § 16-621(E), which expressly mandates records tracing custody of all election equipment and ballots through completion of provisional voting tabulation. Senate Audit Liaison Ken Bennett stated this as an established compliance failure. Citations AZ Senate Audit Liaison
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Established Fact Windows security event logs on the EMS server – which track remote and local access – were restricted to a 20 MB file size, causing them to automatically overwrite. The logs covering the November 3, 2020 election period were purged, destroying the complete audit trail of all system access during the election. Citations
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Established Fact Forensic experts found that 865 directories and 85,673 election-related files were deleted from the EMS C: Drive, and over 1 million files from the D: Drive. The Cyber Ninjas audit report states all data in the EMS database related to the 2020 General Election “had been fully cleared” and that security logs “appeared
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Security Negligence Storing decryption keys in plain text creates a major security vulnerability. If an attacker gains access to the database, they could easily obtain the keys and use them to decrypt sensitive election data such as voter registration information, ballot designs and configurations, and vote tallies and results. Read Full Advisory
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The Maricopa County Recorder’s office deleted the entire 2020 General Election database from the Dominion Election Management System — including all activity logs — the day before the Arizona Senate’s Cyber Ninjas forensic audit began. The deletion was permanent. It eliminated the native election-period data that would have formed the evidentiary baseline for the entire
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