I feel the need to comment. I also feel the need to stop doing posts like this. But here it is:
What the audit determined is that the ballots said what we were told they said. This is actually not a surprising finding. A fake ballot for Joe Biden which was added to his total on Nov. 3rd will still be a fake ballot today.
There were 17,000 duplicate ballots which should not have been counted at all, and some 57,000 problems of sufficient gravity that they should have gone into “secondary inspection” and many of them rejected (which of course is not the role of an auditor).
Here is the undeniable point: for those who doubt the integrity of our elections, that audit gave us enormous evidence.
From the Executive Summary:
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 were corrupt or missing.
• Logs appeared to be intentionally rolled over, and all the data in the database related to the 2020 General 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. This all increased the complexity and difficulty in properly auditing the results; and added ambiguity into the final conclusions.
• Maricopa County failed to follow basic cyber security best practices and guidelines from CISA
• Software and patch protocols were not followed
• Credential management was flawed: unique usernames and passwords were not allocated
• Lack of baseline for host and network activity for approved programs, communications protocols and communications devices for voting systems
Data was destroyed, the network was open to hacking, they were not able to document chain of custody–which is BASIC–and 27,000 votes were likely not valid, since the people casting them had moved.
Any or all of these EASILY could have cost Trump the election. The point of an audit is to ideally determine what DID happen if possible; since that was made impossible by the destruction of evidence, then the goal is to find out what flaws COULD have been exploited, and they were found in nearly every place they COULD be found. Ballot stuffing likely happened. Hacking likely happened.
And Gateway Pundit reported a lot of stuff was left out, and the language made less clear to mollify, presumably, the corrupt cowards among the Arizona Republicans.
And think about this, many of these ballots could have been created in the month or so after the election it took Arizona to certify the election, and then logged into the voting data system and added to official tallies, then the dates erased with everything else. Again, no chain of custody equals a tinpot dictatorship election. This is Banana Republic stuff.
So all this provides MORE, not less reason to question the results of the election. These are not the problems and mistakes of people working honestly for the public good. You don’t delete your accounting records just prior to an audit, and claim innocence. And if you are an accountant, you do not allow the numbers not to match in various places, or for large discrepancies to go uncorrected. Not when the numbers matter, as they obviously do in a national Presidential election.
It is of course par for the course that the media is more or less reporting all this to unwitting Quisling sheep as if it validated Biden. The TRUTH is the opposite, which is the usual case.
There were at least five times or so the number of likely illegal votes needed for Trump to have won in a fair election.
And keep in mind this is just Maricopa County, or so I understand. It contains about two thirds of the voters in Arizona, but there still remain about 2 million more people in Arizona.