Maricopa County

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

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

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

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

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