Turn Over Routers or Face Subpoenas, Arizona Lawmakers Tell Maricopa County
E******N INTEGRITYZachary Stieber May 8, 2021

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Turn Over Routers or Face Subpoenas, Arizona Lawmakers Tell Maricopa County
A Maricopa County E******ns Department staff member counts b****ts ahead of Tuesdays e******n in Phoenix, Ariz., on Oct. 31, 2020. (Courtney Pedroza/Getty Images)
Legislators in Arizona and officials in the state’s largest county clashed anew this week over e******n audit subpoenas, with county officials refusing to hand over routers and claiming they do not have passwords to access administrative control functions of e******n machines.

Arizona’s Senate told Maricopa County on Friday that it would issue subpoenas for live testimony from the county’s Board of Supervisors unless it received the materials that are being withheld.

“We’ve been asked to relay that the Senate views the County’s explanations on the router and passwords issues as inadequate and potentially incorrect,” a lawyer for the Senate said in an email to county officials.

The Arizona Senate subpoenaed a slew of e******n materials, such as b****ts, following the 2020 e******n. Lawmakers also issued subpoenas for e******n machines, passwords, and other technology.

Maricopa County alleged in a lawsuit that the request for materials was overly broad and threatened v**er privacy. A judge, though, ruled that they were “the equivalent of a Court order.” But the county said this week it is not turning over routers or router images, claiming that doing so poses a significant security risk to law enforcement.

The county has also informed the Senate’s audit liaison, former Republican Secretary of State Ken Bennett, that it does not have passwords to access administrative functions on D******n V****g Systems machines that were used to scan b****ts during the e******n.

“They’ve told us that they don’t have that second password, or that they’ve given us all the passwords they have. They’ve also told us that they now can’t, as they promised a couple weeks ago, provide our subcontractors with the virtual access to the routers and hubs and other things at the Maricopa County tabulation and e******n center, as was part of the subpoenas,” Bennett told One America News at the site of the audit in Phoenix.

John Brakey, a Democrat who is serving as an assistant to Bennett, told the broadcaster that he was “blown away” by the password development.

“It’s like leasing a car and they refuse to give you the keys. They’re supposed to be running the e******n. You know what’s wrong? Sometimes these vendors have too much power, and we’re v****g on secret software, and that’s why this recount down here is very important,” he added.

Jack Sellers, the Republican chairman of the Maricopa County board, said Friday that he is angered by allegations of corruption and would not address every allegation, but would speak to the password issue.

“The specific password and security tokens Ken Bennett referenced this week provide access to proprietary firmware and source code. E******ns administrators do not need to access this information to hold an e******n, and we do not have it in our custody,” he said in a statement.

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Contractors working for Florida-based company, Cyber Ninjas, which was hired by the Arizona Senate, audit b****ts at Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Phoenix, Ariz., on May 6, 2021. (Matt York/Pool/AP Photo)
The county board called an emergency meeting later on Friday. The board was going to consider legal advice and litigation regarding its non-compliance with the Senate subpoenas.

In a response to the Senate’s lawyer, Allister Adel, Maricopa County’s attorney, said that the county has “already produced every password and security key for the tabulators that is [sic] within the County’s possession.”

“It does not have any others,” Adel added. The county is working to figure out if there is “a safe manner” to get the Senate information from the routers without risking non-e******n data.

D******n, whose machines are used in about half of U.S. states, did not respond to a request for comment. The company has said it supports forensic audits by federally-accredited laboratories and that Cyber Ninjas, which is leading the Arizona audit, is not verified.

Both D******n and Sellers noted that Maricopa County contracted its own audits, one for machines and another for b****ts.

But Brakey, the assistant Senate liaison, has called the description of those audits misleading. The b****t batches were picked beforehand and auditors only analyzed a small percentage of the b****ts cast in the e******n, he said, while the machine testing could only determine whether the technology was working well at the time of the review.

“They claim that’s an audit. I call it fatally flawed,” he told One America News.

Maricopa County Sheriff Paul Penzone, meanwhile, joined other county officials in decrying the Senate’s attempt to obtain the routers.

“Its most recent demands jeopardize the entire mission of the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office,” he said in a statement.

“We are talking about confidential, sensitive, and highly-classified law enforcement data and equipment that will be permanently c*********d. The current course is mind-numbingly reckless and irresponsible. I look forward to briefing them on the horrendous consequences of this demand and the breadth of its negative impact on the public safety in this County.”

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I have a question...why in the hell wasn't things like this done BEFORE Joe and Cameltoe were sworn in??? I would like to know what Sherriff Joe Arpio has to say about this.

LOL, getting scared and having the vapors? Good, you're about to lose it all. Ask yourself why don't they have the codes for the routers? The only thing that makes sense is the v****g machines WERE connected to the internet and the e******n WAS s****n. RIP Kemmer, the left is about to lose it all. The tech giants, the MSM, social media, and most of D.C. are about to be arrested, tried, and executed for treason. 70% of DC are pedos. Enjoy your fall. Your about to lose everyone, who thinks like you. What will you do? Deport yourself, suicide, or hide in a cave. Life is all about choices and you chose wrong. Adios! I think I hear Trump returning. Being a t*****r never ends very well, when adults are in charge. And the Trumpster and the Military are all adults who don't harm children and women. Down you go. Enjoy your fall. Tick-tock. God can beat Satan 24/7/365 with just a word.