BREAKING: @maricopavote responds to faulty assumptions & inaccurate claims made by Cyber Ninjas and other Senate contractors re: the Nov. election. ๐๐๐ฃ๐จ๐ซ ๐๐ฅ๐๐ข๐ฆ๐ฌ ๐๐ซ๐ ๐๐๐๐ฎ๐ง๐ค๐๐.
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โข ๐๐จ ๐๐ฏ๐ข๐๐๐ง๐๐ ๐จ๐ ๐๐จ๐ฎ๐๐ฅ๐ ๐ฏ๐จ๐ญ๐ข๐ง๐ . Contractors don't understand election procedures & laws.
โข ๐๐จ๐ญ๐ก๐ข๐ง๐ ๐ฉ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ ๐๐. All 2020 election files were archived & safely secured. Senate never subpoenaed archives & made assumptions based on incomplete info.
Maricopa County has consistently shared facts about processes and procedures related to its elections. Get accurate information & context about how Maricopa County elections work + fact-checking from the professionals who do that work at JustTheFacts.vote.
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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/AZMARโฆ
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On Friday, the County provided real-time responses to many of the allegations made by the Senateโs contractors. This technical report will provide a deeper dive into the County's early ballot and tabulation processes.
It will also include election staffโs research into the actual voter IDs included in the Senateโs review. The Countyโs 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: Hereโs round two of our #FactCheck on several of the claims Cyber Ninjas identified as the most serious in their report: ๐งต
CLAIM: Election management database purged
BOTTOM LINE: This is misleading. Nothing was purged. Cyber Ninjas donโt 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.
NEW: After a preliminary review of the draft #azaudit report, we can provide a #FactCheck on several of the claims Cyber Ninjas identified as the most serious in their report:
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CLAIM: 23,344 mail-in ballots voted from a prior address.
BOTTOM LINE: Cyber Ninjas still donโt understand this is legal under federal election law. To label it a โcriticalโ concern is either intentionally misleading or staggeringly ignorant. AZ senators should know this too.
EXPLANATION: 1) Military and overseas voters can cast a โfederal only ballotโ despite living outside the U.S. The address tied to their ballot would be their prior address in AZ.
CHECKS AND BALANCES: In each of the three hand counts performed during 2020, the Republican, Democrat, and Libertarian appointees found a 100% match to the tabulation equipment results.
A hand count audit following the Nov. election included a random & statistically significant sampling of both mail and Election Day ballots, verifying over 47,000 contests. State-required equipment tests & our 2 independent audits confirmed no vote switching or hacking occurred.
A thread about election audits ahead of the Senate hearing today:
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Good audits built trust. B/c they are conducted by experienced professionals who use well-defined, proven processes which produce reproducible results, good election audits provide quantifiable proof that that reported results match the canvass. Board members support good audits.
Regardless of what ends up in the final report, what Cyber Ninjas & co. conducted was not a good audit. It did not build trust.
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 Senateโs 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.โ