ElectionSource (Dominion Subcontractor) Directed Battery Removal from Voting Machines – Resetting Configuration Data and Destroying Forensic Evidence (MI)

[Reasonable Inference – Characterization as evidence destruction] ElectionSource – a Dominion Voting Systems subcontractor under Michigan State Contract #071B7700117 – issued letters to county clerks directing “preventative maintenance” that included the removal of internal batteries from voting machines. Per voting machine operations manuals, battery removal resets a machine to factory default settings, erasing server connection settings, configuration data, logs, and other forensic artifacts. The preventative maintenance checklist in the state contract does not identify battery removal as a scheduled item; the instruction therefore represents either an unauthorized modification of the maintenance protocol or a deliberate directive to destroy forensic evidence under the guise of routine maintenance. ElectionSource technicians working on the Antrim County project file simultaneously had access to project files for at least 26 other Michigan counties – raising the question of whether the battery removal directive affected the forensic integrity of voting machines across multiple jurisdictions.