04/16/2024

Yesterday, we broke the story about the discovery that Maricopa County had deleted their entire 2020 general election database.

In a letter to the Maricopa Board of Supervisors from AZ Senate President Karen Fann, she outlined 3 critical issues with the Arizona election audit (so far):

  1. To date, attorneys for Maricopa County have refused to produce virtual images of routers used in connection with the general election, relying on a conclusory and unsupported assertion that providing the routers would somehow “endanger the lives of law enforcement officers, their operations, or the protected health information and personal data of Maricopa County’s citizens.” If true, the fact that Maricopa County stores on its routers substantial quantities of citizens’ and employees’ highly sensitive personal information are an alarming indictment of the County’s lax data security practices, rather than of the legislative subpoenas.Separately, Maricopa County has refused to provide the passwords necessary to access vote tabulation devices. Its attorneys’ insistence that the County does not have custody or control of this information is belied by the County’s conduct of its own audits, which, if they were as comprehensive as they purported to be, almost certainly would have entailed use of the passwords to examine the tabulation devices, and it strains credulity to posit that the County has no contractual right to obtain (i.e., control of) password information from Dominion.
  2. As the audit has progressed, the Senate’s contractors have become aware of apparent omissions, inconsistencies, and anomalies relating to Maricopa County’s handling, organization, and storage of ballots.
  3. We have recently discovered that the entire “Database” directory from the D drive of the machine “EMSPrimary” has been deleted. This removes election-related details that appear to have been covered by the subpoena. In addition, the main database for the Election Management System (EMS) Software, “Results Tally and Reporting,” is not located anywhere on the EMSPrimary machine, even though all of the EMS Clients reference that machine as the location of the database. This suggests that the main database for all election-related data for the November 2020 General Election has been removed.

Dr. Kelli Ward, Chairwoman of the Arizona Republican Party made a videotaped message to outline their outrageous findings:

The response to these alarming findings, Katie Hobbs, Arizona’s radical Democrat Secretary of State, responded by mocking the process, calling the election audit, a “fraudit.’

“Of course what’s happening with the @AZGOP #fraudit is absurd and comical, but it’s also dangerous. As long as this continues, I’ll keep fighting to share the truth with Arizonans and to defend our elections,” AZ Secretary of State Katie Hobbs wrote.

Dr. Kelli Ward shot back at Hobbs with a blistering response:

Katie is a liar.

This is #AmericasAudit.

It’s kind of sick that she, as an election official, finds potential fraud in our election system “comical.”

Her rhetoric and that of those like her is what’s dangerous to America.

Here’s what the tacky, radical, AZ Secretary of State Katie Hobbs’ Twitter account looks like:

Evil comes in many forms…