The ballot hand count is getting so much attention but there's so much more to this audit like "copies of voting system data was sent to a lab in Montana"
what lab?
what data?
who has access?
what protections are there to secure that network?
Alright, here's my wormhole for tonight, Twitter. Montana. We know that CyFIR is one of Cyber Ninja's subcontractors and CEO Ben Cotton is the one that made the "deleted files" claim.
Bigfork is a vacationers hub of Kalispell, in northern Montana. Fairly remote, lots of cabins. I was there like 3 years ago for a reporting project talking about how lots of people are moving there because it's pretty. pewtrusts.org/en/research-an…
Map view and Google view of where "CyTech Services" may have our Maricopa County "voting system data."
Hi, data!
I just looked up the address in property records.
The "lab" where our voting system data was sent appears to be a log cabin in a remote part of northern Montana, owned by CyFIR CEO Ben Cotton.
I do believe my editors like me to limit my late-night rabbit holes so I have working hours left during the day. Until next time...
(also I realize now I called it a wormhole above. dont @ me)
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I'm the #azauditpool reporter this morning. I just got many updates from Ken Bennett and Randy Pullen. Here's the latest on the Arizona election audit:
As of Saturday, they say they counted half of the county's 2.1 million ballots.
There will be a third shift of counting for the first time tonight, from 8 p.m. to 1 p.m. There will be fewer volunteers for this shift than the others.
They say that yesterday, on Memorial Day, they counted the most number of ballots they have ever counted in a day.
When I asked how many, they said they wouldn't tell me ... That's "confidential information" for the contractors.
New: Being told this morning that Ken Bennett will no longer be handing media for Arizona election audit. Instead, Senators @FannKfann and @warrenpetersen, who have typically not been inside the coliseum and taking procedural questions. #azauditpool
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This morning @KyungLahCNN and her team were given a phone number by the security lead we refer to as Cowboy Hat Andy because he won’t give us his name. Told that’s the new media number.
Yet in typical audit fashion when I called Ken Bennett about this...
Bennett answered his phone this morning and told me he had not heard about this new setup.
Then I called the number I was given and Randy Pullen, former AZ GOP chair who has been involved in the audit, answered. Pullen...
Just got to my home away from home, which has now been described in national media as not just ‘decrepit’ but also ‘suburban’ ‘aging’ and a ‘basketball arena.’
I’ll tweet today as they move the ballots back in here from a storage building. Graduations are over. #azauditpool
Here’s the building that has stored the ballots and machines for the last nine days. Watch the inside of this building and the coliseum at a audit.org
The most important news today is that the CNN videographer just mistook me for a broadcast reporter. And to that I say