Mid-Election EMS Database Recreation – Tabulation and Adjudication Databases Recreated on October 21, 2020; Selective Ballot Record Reprocessing (CO)

Forensic analysis of the Mesa County, Colorado EMS server – utilizing the same Dominion Democracy Suite platform deployed in multiple 2020 battleground states – revealed the unauthorized, mid-election creation of entirely new Tabulation and Adjudication databases on October 21, 2020, during the active early voting period. The original pre-election databases were deleted and replaced with new database instances. Thousands of ballot records were selectively copied into the new databases and reprocessed. This mid-election database recreation permanently and irreversibly broke the chain of custody between the ballots physically cast by voters and the database records purporting to represent those votes and voided the certified configuration state that had been validated by pre-election L&A testing. This finding is directly relevant to battleground state investigations because Mesa County used the same Dominion Democracy Suite platform and the same trusted build procedures; it demonstrates that this specific category of configuration manipulation – mid-election database recreation – is technically feasible within the platform’s architecture, was actually executed in the field, and would be invisible to the application-level audit trail.