ElectionSource Battery-Removal Directive – Vendor-Directed Destruction of Configuration Data (MI)
Established Fact Dominion subcontractor ElectionSource directed county clerks, including Oceana County, to allow ElectionSource staff to conduct “preventative maintenance” including removal of internal batteries – which resets machines to factory defaults, erasing server connection settings, configuration data, and logs critical to forensic analysis. Battery removal was not listed as a scheduled maintenance item in the
