KEY POINTS:
• Canvassed results were accurate
• Fewer than 100 potentially questionable ballots cast out of 2.1 million
• No systemic issues; no races impacted
• @maricopavote followed all federal, state, and local laws
THEIR SMOKING GUNS WERE FULL OF BLANKS:
• Cyber Ninjas made faulty or inaccurate claims about more than 53,000 ballots in 18 different categories
• CyFIR claims re: equipment were all inaccurate
• EchoMail claims re: early ballot images were all misleading
WE KEPT THE RECORDS: @maricopavote cloned copies of the election server as it was when it was delivered to the Senate. Those clones, + security logs and surveillance footage, help disprove many of the outrageous claims made by Sen contractors, such as intentionally deleted files.
WE WENT EVEN FURTHER:
As an added check, the County hired a third-party cyber security and incident response firm staffed by former FBI officials to provide independent analysis. Their findings affirmed the integrity of county personnel and processes.
WE KNOW THE LAWS:
Elections are governed by federal and state election laws. Want to know why we do things a certain way? It’s in statute or the election procedures manual. Our report cites the laws we followed related to each claim made by Senate contractors.
BOTTOM LINE: The AZ Senate’s $9 million “forensic audit” proved only one thing--that hiring inexperienced partisans with no knowledge of election laws or procedures to analyze an election in the 2nd largest voting jurisdiction in America is a bad idea.
LEARN MORE: The entire report is posted at JustTheFacts.vote. @maricopavote professionals will summarize the findings and take questions from the Board of Supervisors during a hearing that will begin shortly. Watch live: youtube.com/maricopacounty….
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On claims thousands of people may have illegally voted because they moved prior to or during the Election Cycle: 1. For decades, federal & state laws have recognized that voters move & have provided protections for them to lawfully cast a ballot.
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2. Cyber Ninjas used soft matching techniques. They didn’t have SSN’s or full date of birth. This is a problem because people share names, etc.
3. We checked out the votes they claimed may have been illegal & our review included a 7-point hard match check of the voter’s full name, address, full DOB, SSN, voter ID, voting history, and signature.
On claims of deleted files, databases, logs: In some cases, the items that contractors could not find were items the Senate did not subpoena and therefore wouldn’t have. 1/5
In other cases, the “missing” data was exactly where it was supposed to be, as proven by copies of the EMS server & images that the County cloned prior to providing those materials to the Senate. 2/
In many cases, the events that contractors falsely attributed to a nefarious remote user running “scripts” to purge files were actually standard, automated actions from the EMS application meant to manage space on the server. 3/
Newly-elected Chairman @billgatesaz is outlining his vision for Maricopa County in 2022. Watch live: youtube.com/maricopacounty…. This thread will share highlights.
@billgatesaz Gates says the community has been tested “by a novel virus that has not just threatened our health, but our compassion for one another… an uncertain labor market and rising prices… and the greatest single challenge to our democracy in my lifetime and likely yours."
“Our quality of life depends on the quality of our democracy. The quality of our democracy is directly tied to the strength of our democratic institutions. And right now those institutions, including @maricopacounty government, are at risk because of widespread misinformation.”
BREAKING: @maricopavote responds to faulty assumptions & inaccurate claims made by Cyber Ninjas and other Senate contractors re: the Nov. election. 𝐌𝐚𝐣𝐨𝐫 𝐜𝐥𝐚𝐢𝐦𝐬 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐝𝐞𝐛𝐮𝐧𝐤𝐞𝐝.
Key points:🧵⬇️
• 𝐍𝐨 𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐝𝐨𝐮𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐯𝐨𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠. Contractors don't understand election procedures & laws.
• 𝐍𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐩𝐮𝐫𝐠𝐞𝐝. All 2020 election files were archived & safely secured. Senate never subpoenaed archives & made assumptions based on incomplete info.
NEW: In the coming weeks, Maricopa County will be producing a comprehensive report addressing all of the allegations and questions from the Arizona Senate's final audit report. We will take the time needed to be thorough & accurate. #AZAudit
More: content.govdelivery.com/accounts/AZMAR…
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On Friday, the County provided real-time responses to many of the allegations made by the Senate’s contractors. This technical report will provide a deeper dive into the County's early ballot and tabulation processes.
It will also include election staff’s research into the actual voter IDs included in the Senate’s review. The County’s technical response will address many of the "anomalies" that stumped the Senate's contractors but appear not to have been fully investigated by their team.
NEW: Here’s round two of our #FactCheck on several of the claims Cyber Ninjas identified as the most serious in their report: 🧵
CLAIM: Election management database purged
BOTTOM LINE: This is misleading. Nothing was purged. Cyber Ninjas don’t understand the business of elections. We can't keep everything on the EMS server because it has storage limits.
We have data archival procedures for our elections and @MaricopaVote archived everything related to the November election on backup drives. So everything still exists.
EXPLANATION: The Election Management System (EMS) database does not store election information forever.