Established Fact
The Maricopa County Recorder’s office deleted the entire 2020 General Election database from the Dominion EMS server and purged SQL logs the day before the Arizona Senate’s Cyber Ninjas forensic audit began, permanently eliminating native election-period system logs. When a backup was later restored, approximately 263,139 ballot images were corrupt and unreadable and about 21,273 ballot images were missing from the restored dataset, blinding auditors to the full digital chain of custody.
Citations
Arizona Senate President Fann Letter on Deleted Databases: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/05/breaking-maricopa-county-elections-officials-deleted-entire-database-voting-machines-including-election-information-main-database/ | The Gateway Pundit
9/27/21 High-Level Review of the September 24, 2021 AZ Senate Audit Report, https://drive.google.com/file/d/1jp38rV6sE27UqZZOjcnaiYaFv7J_ETKs/view?usp=drive_link
Maricopa County Forensic Audit Volume III: Results Details: https://c692f527-da75-4c86-b5d1-8b3d5d4d5b43.filesusr.com/ugd/2f3470_d36cb5eaca56435d84171b4fe7ee6919.pdf | Cyber Ninjas Audit Report