Official Maricopa County Fact Checking of Fraudit - Thread 2

[Nevilledog]

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NEW: Here’s round two of our #FactCheck on several of the claims Cyber Ninjas identified as the most serious in their report: 🧵

CLAIM: Election management database purged

BOTTOM LINE: This is misleading. Nothing was purged. Cyber Ninjas don’t 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.

That’s what archives are for. The Feb 2nd activity referenced in the report was simply standard practice in the data archival process. The EMS server needed to be readied so our certified auditors could test the equipment for accuracy. The Senate never subpoenaed our archives.

CLAIM: Election files deleted

BOTTOM LINE: This is misleading. As stated above, servers have space limitations. Files are not deleted; they are archived. The Senate never subpoenaed our EMS archives.

CLAIM: 263,139 corrupt ballot images on the county’s EMS server.

BOTTOM LINE: This is inaccurate. The server isn't the place to find all ballot images. We provided the hard drives that contain all ballot images and confirmed these images were not corrupted and could be opened.

BACKGROUND: These claims of “deleting” and “purging” are reminiscent of the false claim Cyber Ninjas made in May, accusing Maricopa County of deleting an election server. The truth was, the Ninjas looked in the wrong place for the info. It was there all along.

They just didn’t know how to correctly set up a RAID server. Despite falsely accused us of a crime, Senate contractors have never issued a retraction or an apology.

Unfortunately, AZ Senators gave unvetted, unqualified, private companies with known biases a platform to share misguided theories and faulty assumptions about Maricopa County elections.

You can find claims we’ve already debunked at JustTheFacts.vote. We will continue to respond to other #azaudit claims as appropriate.
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[msongs]

1. it's all about money grubbing. the election is just an excuse nt

[Jim__]

2. More good information!

[BlueIdaho]

3. No place for OTJ training...

The one thing that is crystal clear - Running a presidential ballot audit is no place for on the job training.