Obmutesce pater mendacii ✠ Be silent, father of lies
Maricopa County Forensic Election Audit
Volume I: Executive Summary& Recommendations
• 34,448 duplicates
• None of the
various systems related to elections had numbers that would balance and
agree with each other. In some cases, these differences were
significant.
• There appears to be many 27, 807 ballots cast from individuals who had moved prior to the election.
• Files were missing from the Election Management System (EMS) Server.
• Ballot images 284,412 on the EMS corrupt or missing.
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Logs appeared to be intentionally rolled over, and all the data in the
database related to the 2020 Election had been fully cleared.
• On
the ballot side, batches were not always clearly delineated, duplicated
ballots were missing the required serial numbers, originals were
duplicated more than once, and the Auditors were never provided Chain-of
Custody documentation for the ballots for the time-period prior to the
ballot’s movement into the Auditors’ care.
• Maricopa County failed to follow basic cyber security best practices and guidelines from CISA© 2021 Cyber Ninjas Page 2 of 4
• Software and patch protocols were not followed
• Credential management was flawed: unique usernames and passwords were not allocated
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Lack of baseline for host and network activity for approved programs,
communications protocols and communications devices for voting systems
• Canvass showed over 3,400 more ballots were casted than recorded
• Over 9,000 more mail-in ballots were received and recorded than the official number of mail-in ballots sent out by the county
• Approximately 2,500 ballots were shown in the early vote returns that do not have a voter listed as casting them.
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Over 255,000 early votes shown in the county final vote file that do
not have a corresponding entry in the early voting returns file
• Over 23,000 voted by mail after moving after the October 5th cutoff
• 2,382 voters casted votes in Maricopa county, in person, after moving out of the county
