Post-Election Forensic Audit Scope Insufficient to Validate or Refute Hardware Configuration – Internal Inspection Refused (AZ)

Post-election forensic examinations of Maricopa County’s voting systems conducted by certified test laboratories, including Pro V&V and SLI Compliance, were structurally limited to external reviews, removable-media imaging, and software-level analysis. No auditor was permitted to conduct internal hardware inspections of the tabulator units – the “lift the hood” examination that would verify whether the internal computing components inside each physical tabulator matched the EAC-certified PCOS-330A hardware model or instead matched an ICE configuration. Maricopa County’s refusal to permit physical internal inspection means that the most critical hardware-level question – whether the deployed tabulators were actually the certified model – remains forensically unresolved. An audit that cannot examine the hardware cannot validate the hardware configuration.