Anonymous ID: 5179d8 Sept. 18, 2021, 6:52 a.m. No.14608520   ๐Ÿ—„๏ธ.is ๐Ÿ”—kun   >>8530 >>8951

https://www.kitv.com/story/44759096/maricopa-county-and-arizona-senate-reach-agreement-after-months-of-sparring-over-2020-election-audit

Maricopa County and Arizona Senate reach agreement after months of sparring over 2020 election audit

Arizona's Maricopa County and the state Senate have reached an agreement after a months-long dispute stemming from the local government's refusal to hand over electronic voting equipment logs related to the November 2020 election.

The Republican-controlled state Senate has been sparring with Maricopa County officials who didn't comply with subpoenas to release certain information related its voting system following the presidential election.

Fueled by former President Donald Trump's claims about widespread fraud in the 2020 election, Arizona state Senate Republicans demanded an election audit that began in April of the results in Maricopa County.

Maricopa County's Board of Supervisors on Friday agreed to provide the materials in question to a "special master," who will hire experts to review the records and provide information to the state Senate. Former Arizona Republican congressman John Shadegg will fill that role.

Florida-based company Cyber Ninjas, conductor of the election audit, has no experience auditing elections, and its chief executive officer promoted Trump's conspiracy theories about the election on social media.

The settlement essentially "keeps county routers and other sensitive materials out of the hands of the Senate's contractor, Cyber Ninjas," the board said in a news release Friday. "The agreement also protects taxpayers and ends a legal dispute over the Senate's ongoing election review by bringing the County into full compliance with outstanding subpoenas."

"The Cyber Ninjas will never be able to touch the routers or access our data," Maricopa County board chairman Jack Sellers said in a written statement. "An independent third party can confirm what we've always said: the election equipment was not connected to the internet and no vote switching occurred."

The board's hands were tied when the Arizona attorney general imposed a September 27 deadline to meet the requirements of the state Senate's subpoenas or risk losing $676 million in shared state sales tax revenue, the board said in the statement.

"Under threat of losing hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue sharing, today Maricopa County settled with the State Senate, in a victory for election integrity and the Arizona taxpayer," state Senate President Karen Fann said a statement.

Fann, a Republican, added that the county will cover Shadegg's costs to conduct the review. Shadegg may hire one to three computer technology experts to respond to the state Senate's questions, according to the agreement.

Further, the agreement limits the Arizona Senate's questions to the county's routers and splunk logs related to the November general election.

Arizona's Senate had issued subpoenas asking Maricopa County for a slew of information, including documents, passwords, security information, changes of voter registration records, signed ballot envelopes or images, documents related to any breaches of the election system, information about changes in voting records, county routers and IP addresses and computer logs from two months before and three months after the election.

But the county had decline sharing some materials due to security concerns.

"The Senate will finally get the answers to questions asked for in subpoenas issued to the County months ago," Fann said.

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Anonymous ID: 5179d8 Sept. 18, 2021, 6:57 a.m. No.14608543   ๐Ÿ—„๏ธ.is ๐Ÿ”—kun

https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/nation/county-cuts-deal-to-end-fight-over-arizona-senate-subpoena/

Board members overseeing Arizonaโ€™s most populous county reached an agreement Friday evening with the Republican-controlled state Senate that will end a standoff over a Senate demand that they hand over computer routers for use in an unprecedented partisan election review.

The Maricopa County Board of Supervisors announced that a special master will take questions from the Senateโ€™s election review contractors and provide them with information contained on the routers they say they need to finish the election review.

Supervisor Bill Gates said the deal will protect sensitive information contained on the routers while avoiding a massive penalty the county faced if they had not complied.

Anonymous ID: 5179d8 Sept. 18, 2021, 7:17 a.m. No.14608650   ๐Ÿ—„๏ธ.is ๐Ÿ”—kun

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natasha_Bertrand

Bertrand began her career at Business Insider as an intern in 2014 before being appointed as a political correspondent mainly covering US foreign policy and national security. During her time at Business Insider she also reported on the Steele dossier.

She joined The Atlantic as a staff writer in 2018 and, shortly thereafter, was named a political analyst for NBC News and MSNBC.

Bertrand became a national security correspondent for Politico in 2019. She was among the leading writers covering the US intelligence community and the impeachment inquiry against Donald Trump, and was named to Forbes' "30 under 30 class" of 2021.

Bertrand joined CNN as a White House reporter covering national security in April 2021. Her first on-air appearance was April 27, 2021, on New Day with Jake Tapper.

Anonymous ID: 5179d8 Sept. 18, 2021, 7:42 a.m. No.14608815   ๐Ÿ—„๏ธ.is ๐Ÿ”—kun

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https://www.uscp.gov/the-department/our-history

On May 2, 1828, Congress passed an Act that expanded the police regulations of the City of Washington to include the Capitol and Capitol Square. It is on this date that the USCP commemorates its founding.