NEW: Board votes to approve an agreement with the AZ Senate that keeps county routers & other sensitive materials out of the hands of Cyber Ninjas. The agreement also protects taxpayers and ends a legal dispute over the Senate’s ongoing election review.
Per Chairman @jacksellers: "The Cyber Ninjas will never be able to touch the routers or access our data. An independent third party can confirm what we've always said: the election equipment was not connected to the internet and no vote switching occurred.
And our residents, law enforcement, and courts can all rest assured that their data and equipment are protected.”
The agreement with the Senate comes with a provision that the Senate President write a letter to the Attorney General stating the County has now fully complied with the Senate’s outstanding subpoenas and that further action is not warranted.
READ THE AGREEMENT: maricopa.gov/DocumentCenter…

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More from @maricopacounty

11 Aug
At a time when more big revelations are being promised about alleged election fraud or wrongdoing in 2020, a reminder of some other “big revelations” to date:
Deleted database- FALSE
74K phantom ballots- FALSE
Voter roll discrepancies- FALSE
Illegitimate ballots counted- FALSE
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We have consistently refuted falsehoods with facts, but misinformation spreads faster & more widely than truth. Sometimes during public hearings or staged events. Nearly non-stop on social media. Often by people w/limited knowledge of election laws, procedures, or best practices.
Take Cyber Ninjas and subcontractors, for example. What they’re saying can sound plausible to people unfamiliar with election operations. Like the false statement below about the 74K “phantom ballots.”
Read 9 tweets
2 Aug
Since January, Maricopa County has provided 2.1 million paper ballots, 385 Election Day tabulators, 9 central count tabulators, and 8+ terabytes of data including tabulator logs, voter records, clones of servers & images of early ballot affidavits, and ballot images.
Despite not agreeing with the Senate leadership’s choice of contractor, we complied and cooperated with all demands that were safe for constituents and supported by law.
AZ Senate leadership turned all of these items over to Cyber Ninjas & others, "enabling and enriching unvetted, unqualified, private companies with known biases who never should have touched federally-certified elections equipment or the people’s ballots." content.govdelivery.com/accounts/AZMAR…
Read 8 tweets
23 Jul
Claims that Maricopa County is not cooperating with Senate contractors assume that partnering with unqualified contractors with ties to the "Stop the Steal" movement is in the best interest of the County and its voters. This is not the case.
The 2020 General Election has been audited, certified, litigated, and found to be safe, secure, and accurate.

Board members supported post-election audits by qualified, experienced firms and voted to conduct two such independent audits.
Arizona Senate leadership chose not to hire qualified, experienced firms. Instead, they picked Cyber Ninjas, a small cybersecurity company with no expertise or experience auditing elections.
Read 6 tweets
16 Jul
NEW: AZ Senate leadership hired unqualified auditors with a lack of election knowledge & a wealth of political bias. The claims these contractors advanced in yesterday’s briefing to senators enabling & enriching them were not based in fact. We refute more claims below 🧵
CLAIM: 74,000 more mail-in ballots were counted in Nov. 2020 than were sent.

FACTS: @MaricopaVote calculated the true number of requests and returns:
REQUESTS = 2,364,426
RETURNS = 1,918,024
So the claim is not just wrong but completely wrong. We don't know where Cyber Ninjas came up with that idea or number. Maricopa County provided additional details in the tweet below.
Read 21 tweets
16 Jul
More fact checking from today’s Senate briefing on #AZAudit
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CLAIM: Maricopa County received 74,000 more mail-in ballots than we sent.

FACTS: In Maricopa County, we allow people to vote early in two ways: 1) by mail and 2) in-person at Vote Centers. These are all considered early votes.
The people who vote in-person use ballots provided at a Vote Center. This is not a new practice, so it's not unusual that we would have more early votes than mail-in ballots sent.
Read 7 tweets
15 Jul
A few comments as we follow along with the Senate “hearing” (featuring 2 senators out of 30) about the “audit” (featuring the guy who cites his Antrim County work as a positive qualification):
If you didn’t subpoena it, there’s a reason you don’t have it.
The federal EAC says uncertified people cannot handle certified election equipment. The people testifying are uncertified. Always have been. This cannot be glossed over.
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