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2021-02-02 Home Front: Politix

Maricopa County Officials Approve Forensic Audit of Election Systems

[EpochTimes] Maricopa County in Arizona will carry out a comprehensive forensic audit of its voting systems to allay concerns raised by some constituents about the integrity of the November 2020 election.

The Maricopa County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously at a Jan. 27 meeting to hire two independent companies to conduct an audit that will review whether voting machines counted votes correctly, and whether they were tampered with or hacked in any way.

The Republican-dominated board defended the accuracy of the county’s election results, while expressing hope that a comprehensive equipment and software audit would dispel concerns that the results were inaccurate.

"Maricopa County elections were administered with integrity throughout 2020. That’s a fact. Multiple audits to date have proved as much, and multiple court rulings have concurred," Chairman Jack Sellers said in a statement.

"It’s also true that a significant number of voters want the additional assurance that a full forensic audit of tabulation equipment might bring, especially given all the misinformation that spread following the November 3 election."

According to information from the meeting, the "multi-layered forensic audit" will include a software, hardware, and financial review of voting systems. A vulnerability analysis will be performed, along with a check for malware and a test to verify that tabulators didn’t send or receive information over the internet. Additionally, a logic and accuracy test of the county’s tabulation equipment will be conducted to verify whether ballots were counted accurately and to confirm that no votes were switched.

The audit is unlikely to satisfy the demands of the Arizona Senate, however, which issued subpoenas to the supervisors in December 2020 demanding they turn over a range of election material, including images of all mail-in ballots and machines used to count votes, so the Senate could carry out its own audit.

Arizona state Sen. Warren Peterson, a Republican who chairs the Judiciary Committee, told Fox 10 that the county’s audit won’t alleviate the need for a Senate audit.

"A county audit will not prevent the Senate from doing their own audit," Peterson told the outlet. "My concern with the county audit is that the scope of the audit is an inch deep. With the limited scope they have asked to be audited, they are guaranteed to find nothing."

The county board has resisted the Senate’s requests, arguing that they were too broad, while trying to negotiate a settlement.

Gotcha. I wondered what this was all about.

Seeking to shore up confidence in the November 2020 election, the Maricopa County government on Jan. 27 published a list of steps taken to ensure election integrity, including an October 2020 logic and accuracy test on tabulation equipment and a November hand-count audit of election results that "found a 100 percent match to the vote tabulation machines."

Posted by trailing wife 2021-02-02 00:00|| || Front Page|| [9 views ] Top

#1 audits are fine and should be carried out

but with 'vote by mail' there are vulnerabilities that are not discoverable by audits

one of the most obvious is the problem of 'vote coaching' where the voter is illegally influenced by someone assisting them - and in many cases, the illegal influencer doesn't realize that they in violation of the law

Posted by Lord Garth 2021-02-02 04:28|| 2021-02-02 04:28|| Front Page Top

#2 "Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious People. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." - John Adams

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2021-02-02 05:18|| 2021-02-02 05:18|| Front Page Top

#3 ^ There's the rub...

Posted by M. Murcek 2021-02-02 08:13|| 2021-02-02 08:13|| Front Page Top

#4 The Maricopa County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously at a Jan. 27 meeting to hire two independent companies to conduct an audit

The Arizona Senate questions whether these firms are certified and independent.

Posted by JohnQC 2021-02-02 09:02|| 2021-02-02 09:02|| Front Page Top

#5 Bet they find issues, but no one goes to prison.

Kabuki theater.

Posted by DarthVader 2021-02-02 09:15|| 2021-02-02 09:15|| Front Page Top

#6 ^No. Now, when they've got rid of Trump, there will be a voting reform - otherwise the other side has nothing to lose.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2021-02-02 09:32|| 2021-02-02 09:32|| Front Page Top

#7 Oh they are going to do "reform". Reform and force the other states to be just as un-secure as the states that threw it for Biden.

See the bill going through congress currently to force vote by mail and remove signature verification.

Posted by DarthVader 2021-02-02 09:51|| 2021-02-02 09:51|| Front Page Top

#8 Now that they have had a chance to clean up the machines, they can look and say they found nothing...

Posted by 49 Pan 2021-02-02 10:39|| 2021-02-02 10:39|| Front Page Top

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