iButton Authentication Hardware Retained by Vendor – County Had No Independent System Access (AZ)

The Cyber Ninjas audit confirmed as an established fact that Maricopa County did not possess the administrative iButtons required to independently access, configure, or validate its Dominion tabulation systems. Only Dominion Voting Systems held these tokens. The Senate cover letter stated: “No private company should be trusted with the keys to our democracy. If a county doesn’t even have administrator passwords for its vote-counting machines, the county cannot properly monitor its own elections.” A county that structurally lacks administrative access to its own certified election equipment cannot demonstrate VVSG-required configuration compliance and cannot independently verify the integrity of a single count.