Turn Over Routers or Face Subpoenas, Arizona Lawmakers Tell Maricopa County
May 9, 2021 14:30:39 #
Turn Over Routers or Face Subpoenas, Arizona Lawmakers Tell Maricopa County
ELECTION INTEGRITYZachary Stieber May 8, 2021
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Turn Over Routers or Face Subpoenas, Arizona Lawmakers Tell Maricopa County
A Maricopa County Elections Department staff member counts ballots ahead of Tuesdays election 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 election audit subpoenas, with county officials refusing to hand over routers and claiming they do not have passwords to access administrative control functions of election 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 election materials, such as ballots, following the 2020 election. Lawmakers also issued subpoenas for election machines, passwords, and other technology.
Maricopa County alleged in a lawsuit that the request for materials was overly broad and threatened voter 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 Dominion Voting Systems machines that were used to scan ballots during the election.
“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 election 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 election. You know what’s wrong? Sometimes these vendors have too much power, and we’re voting 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. Elections administrators do not need to access this information to hold an election, 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 ballots 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-election data.
Dominion, 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 Dominion and Sellers noted that Maricopa County contracted its own audits, one for machines and another for ballots.
But Brakey, the assistant Senate liaison, has called the description of those audits misleading. The ballot batches were picked beforehand and auditors only analyzed a small percentage of the ballots cast in the election, 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 compromised. 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.
ELECTION INTEGRITYZachary Stieber May 8, 2021
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Turn Over Routers or Face Subpoenas, Arizona Lawmakers Tell Maricopa County
A Maricopa County Elections Department staff member counts ballots ahead of Tuesdays election 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 election audit subpoenas, with county officials refusing to hand over routers and claiming they do not have passwords to access administrative control functions of election 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 election materials, such as ballots, following the 2020 election. Lawmakers also issued subpoenas for election machines, passwords, and other technology.
Maricopa County alleged in a lawsuit that the request for materials was overly broad and threatened voter 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 Dominion Voting Systems machines that were used to scan ballots during the election.
“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 election 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 election. You know what’s wrong? Sometimes these vendors have too much power, and we’re voting 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. Elections administrators do not need to access this information to hold an election, and we do not have it in our custody,” he said in a statement.
NTD Photo
Contractors working for Florida-based company, Cyber Ninjas, which was hired by the Arizona Senate, audit ballots 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-election data.
Dominion, 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 Dominion and Sellers noted that Maricopa County contracted its own audits, one for machines and another for ballots.
But Brakey, the assistant Senate liaison, has called the description of those audits misleading. The ballot batches were picked beforehand and auditors only analyzed a small percentage of the ballots cast in the election, 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 compromised. 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.”
https://www.ntd.com/turn-over-routers-or-face-subpoenas-arizona-lawmakers-tell-maricopa-county_610021.html?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=2021-05-7
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.
May 9, 2021 14:39:40 #
Oldsailor65 wrote:
Turn Over Routers or Face Subpoenas, Arizona Lawma... (show quote)
The AZ senate disgraced itself—and will pay later—for hiring a Q-anon-allied Cyber Ninjas to do whatever they can to show Trump actually won the 2020 election in AZ.
Not gonna happen.
May 9, 2021 14:41:45 #
If this is not resolved, we will never have an election we can fully trust and many conservative voters will not vote.
Q. Why vote if it's not legitimate?
Q. Why vote if it's not legitimate?
May 9, 2021 14:42:52 #
May 9, 2021 14:45:29 #
Michael Rich
Loc: Lapine Oregon
kemmer wrote:
The AZ senate disgraced itself—and will pay later—for hiring a Q-anon-allied Cyber Ninjas to do whatever they can to show Trump actually won the 2020 election in AZ.
Not gonna happen.
Not gonna happen.
You people don't want the truth..., actually about anything!
May 9, 2021 14:56:25 #
Michael Rich wrote:
You people don't want the truth..., actually about anything!
May 9, 2021 16:02:47 #
Michael Rich wrote:
You people don't want the truth..., actually about anything!
So True.
Any patriotic American wants truth.
May 9, 2021 17:00:32 #
May 9, 2021 17:46:00 #
lpnmajor
Loc: Arkansas
Oldsailor65 wrote:
Turn Over Routers or Face Subpoenas, Arizona Lawma... (show quote)
The search for bigfoot continues.May 9, 2021 17:49:57 #
May 9, 2021 17:50:20 #
May 9, 2021 17:52:14 #
okie don wrote:
The search for truth continues
Libs are ALWAYS AFRAID of the TRUTH!!!
May 9, 2021 20:18:42 #
Oldsailor65 wrote:
Libs are ALWAYS AFRAID of the TRUTH!!!
The libs won the election. This
Is the
Truth.
The Tyranny of the Minority cannot accept the truth .
They Lost because they didn’t have enough votes to win.
This is truth.
Try to get on the right bus next time.
May 9, 2021 20:58:46 #
okie don wrote:
If this is not resolved, we will never have an election we can fully trust and many conservative voters will not vote.
Good. Start in 2022.
May 9, 2021 21:51:31 #
I have said all along, IF the DEMONrats thought the election was truthful and fair and square, they would appoint a truly independent commission to review all of this ... just so they could cram it down out throats. Instead, they try to block a review at every turn. THEY are afraid of the truth or need to raise more money to pay off the "officials" to get THEIR truth.
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