Dominion Vendor Exclusive Control of Administrative iButtons – No County Access (AZ)

Maricopa County did not possess the administrative iButtons (hardware authentication tokens) required to independently access, configure, or validate its own Dominion Voting Systems tabulation infrastructure. Only Dominion Voting Systems retained these tokens, meaning the county was structurally incapable of independently verifying that systems were operating in their certified configuration – a direct violation of A.R.S. § 16-602 and the Arizona Election Procedures Manual (EPM), which requires counties to maintain access controls and audit logs. The Arizona Senate’s 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.”