Dominion Refuses to Hand Over Ballot Tabulator Passwords to Arizona Audit, Worries It Would Cause 'Irreparable Damage' to the Company by Isa Cox
May 15, 2021 at 1:15pm
It’s rather odd that we are constantly reassured that every aspect of the 2020 election was entirely safe, secure and kosher and yet the ongoing election audit process in Arizona’s Maricopa County seems to have been marred with confounding setbacks at every turn.
Are … are they trying to validate claims that the election was stolen? Because this is how you validate claims that the election was stolen.
The Maricopa County Board of Supervisors has been battling with the Arizona state Senate since last year to prevent a forensic audit of November’s election, which was hotly contested by supporters of former President Donald Trump, the incumbent in what will no doubt go down as one of our most controversial elections.
Maricopa, which is the most populous county in the state, was home to some of the most high-profile accusations of election irregularities in the fallout of the general election. Although the Board of Supervisors is controlled by Republicans, they’ve refused to comply with demands from the state Senate, which is also GOP-controlled, to hand over election data for an audit.
In February, a judge ruled against their request to withhold the data that the state legislative body was demanding and a full forensic audit has been underway this month, although the audit team has faced as many roadblocks in obtaining the information they need as state lawmakers did when they originally sought it.
Now, Dominion Voting Machines, the election equipment and software firm that has been accused of essentially rigging the election for President Joe Biden, has quite a bit to gain from the revelation that their machines, which were used in Maricopa, were in no way manipulated or weighted to benefit the Democratic candidate.
After all, they’ve filed massive lawsuits against many of their most vocal critics, such as attorney Sidney Powell and My Pillow CEO Mike Lindell, both of whom have made very specific and insanely bold claims against the firm.
So why are they now refusing to hand over passwords that would aid scrutiny into serious concerns have been raised over missing data? At the very least, this is simply not a great look for the much-criticized firm.
In a statement blasting one of the firms conducting the forensic audit, Dominion explained why they would not be participating in what they derided as an “irresponsible act.”
“Dominion voluntarily provides access to voting machine equipment and information to auditors who have been accredited by the U.S. Election Assistance Commission. We happily did so with the independent EAC- accredited providers that Maricopa County hired for system auditing earlier this year,” the firm wrote in a statement obtained by 12 News reporter Brahm Resnik on Thursday.
“Releasing Dominion’s intellectual property to an unaccredited, biased, and plainly unreliable actor such as Cyber Ninjas would be reckless, causing irreparable damage to the commercial interests of the company and the election security interests of the country,” the statement read.
“No company should be compelled to participate in such an irresponsible act,” the firm concluded.
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Poster Comment:
Don't forget Judge Jeanine and Rudy Giuliani who are also being sued by Dominion.
Corporations exist at the pleasure of the State and the owner or Board of Directors can be sued the same way as the live person. Papers must be served on their attorneys.