Arizona Election Audit Update: Arizona Senate Violates Its Own Election Audit Subpoena
If crimes were committed in the Maricopa County Tabulation and Election Center (MCTEC) during the 2020 Arizona General Election, why would you move the crime scene to a different location to conduct your investigation? The answer is, you wouldn’t. But the Arizona State Senate would.
Instead of holding their ground against the corrupt Maricopa Board of Supervisors (MCBoS) and filing another subpoena forcing them to vacate the MCTEC immediately, the Arizona Senate has decided to go-along-to-get-along and find another location to hold the forensic audit. This defies all logic. It also defies one of their own demands listed in the Forensic Audit Subpoena issued by the Senate Judiciary Committee on December 15, 2020, which states,
“For the November 2020 general election in Maricopa County, Arizona, access to the following equipment or material for forensic analysis; (13) Access or control of ALL routers, tabulators or combinations thereof (some routers are inside the tabulator case) in order to garner the system logs. At the same time, the public IP of the router should be obtained.”
Maybe they have forgotten, but the Senate and the auditors requested the audit to be done at MCTEC in the first place because it is the most efficient and sensible way to perform a comprehensive forensic audit of everything related to the 2020 election. It is “the scene” in which everything needs to be examined in context. The whole building! Why are they now settling for a far inferior choice of moving? Damage in transit, out-of-calibration on sensitive equipment, loss of forensic data on equipment left behind that may have interacted electronically with the voting machines, etc… These potential problems will void any forensic audit work done to the equipment even before the audit starts.
The Arizona Senate needs to step up and issue a subpoena ASAP explicitly demanding that MCTEC gives full access of all election data and its facilities to the AZ Senate and the auditors to do a top down forensic audit; and require in-place auditing, preventing the transportation of election data to any location other than MCTEC.
Next Post: Running down the clock. All Maricopa County “Irregular Ballots” may be destroyed as early as May 2, 2021 if the Arizona Senate doesn’t act fast!
https://www.clerkofcourt.maricopa.gov/Home/ShowDocument?id=2425
https://www.azmirror.com/blog/senate-eyes-veterans-memorial-coliseum-as-election-audit-location/
https://www.worldtribune.com/panic-in-maricopa-county-as-arizona-senate-launches-comprehensive-forensic-audit/