The Real Arizona Audit Bombshell: Catching People on Camera Deleting Election Records

This Was Exactly The Kind of Plot Twist The Audit Movement Needed

The long-awaited report from the Cyber Ninjas audit team in Maricopa County finally began to be released at a televised hearing on Friday, September 24.

There were some eye-opening revelations in the report, such as that hundreds of thousands of paper ballots cast by voters were adjudicated in Maricopa County.  Perhaps as many as 11%.   Multiple media outlets, even those completely unsympathetic to the election theft narrative, agree the adjudication rate was as high as 11%.  That by itself should have been a huge red flag against certifying the election in that county.

It should be remembered that the official certified vote total for the state of Arizona gave Joe Biden the win by a margin of only 10,457 votes.

When a ballot enters adjudication, that means county election staff look at the ballot and then make a judgement as to who the voter intended to vote for. This process where the county elections staff determines who the vote should count for is called ‘curing’ the ballot.

This brings to mind the old adage attributed Josef Stalin, the iron-fisted mass murderer and dictator of the old U.S.S.R.:

“I consider it completely unimportant who in the party will vote, or how; but what is extraordinarily important is this—who will count the votes, and how.”

Maricopa County was not the only key county adjudicating large numbers of ballots.  In Fulton County Georgia, local election staff claimed to have adjudicated 106,000 paper ballots in one day, a claim that a data analyst contacted by The Epoch Times found to be simply unbelievable.

Justin Mealey, a data scientist with the Data Integrity Group, told The Epoch Times on Jan. 5 that adjudication of 106,000 ballots on the election day in Fulton County, Georgia, is “physically not possible.”

One can only wonder at this point what other forensic audits would find out about the levels of ballot adjudication going on in certain counties in Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin and Nevada.

Adjudication is supposed to be a rare remedy for problem ballots.  But it’s come out since the election that in many of these battleground states hundreds of thousands of ballots were adjudicated in the key counties that decided the 2020 Presidential election by exceedingly slim margins.

And when questioned about this abnormally high rate of adjudication for hundreds of thousands of ballots cast in their counties, local officials take the line that Maricopa County has: they claim there’s nothing unusual about this and that this level of adjudication is ‘normal’.

In November, 235,392 Maricopa County ballots were adjudicated, which accounts for 11.3% of all ballots cast.

A spokesperson for the Maricopa County Elections Department told ABC15 that percentage is not unusual. The August primary had a similar adjudication rate of 11.1%, although fewer overall ballots were cast.

If it turns out corrupt local officials really have been working to make the adjudication of more than 10% of the ballots cast in their elections a ‘normal’ occurrence, that right there is definitive proof of the need for election reforms.  County staff should not be in the position of determining which candidates are awarded more than 10% of the ballots cast.

While a lot of attention has been focused on claims of Chinese hacking and vote switching, perhaps it would be far better for those attempting to prove election shenanigans in 2020 to look closer to home and start asking the right questions about massive amounts of adjudication and signature matches.

Do you really need Chinese hackers coming in from outside the country to digitally manipulate vote totals if local county officials have been making a regular practice of adjudicating hundreds of thousands of the paper ballots in order to make votes for the ‘wrong’ candidate into votes for the ‘right’ candidate?

Smile, You’re on Candid Camera!

Then in the middle of the hearing, CyFIR founder Ben Cotton dropped a bombshell.

It had been reported for some time now that persons unknown had gone in and deleted thousands of 2020 election-related files off of the Maricopa County servers.  Beginning on page 62 of its final report, the audit team details this massive and illegal purge of Maricopa County election records.

And Cotton revealed that surveillance cameras were on the scene showing who went into the room and who was using the Maricopa County servers at the time these deletions occurred.

The audit team is claiming they reviewed these surveillance cameras and got video and pictures of these people and caught them in the act at the exact time they were deleting these election records. And they have identified these people.  The final report even contains redacted photographs of these people as they were committing this crime.

Yes, I used the word crime there quite deliberately.

It’s against the law to destroy election records like this. Such records are supposed to be retained for 22 months. The November 2020 election was just 10 months ago.

There’s no doubt the people caught on camera deleting these files knew exactly what they were doing.  They did not delete these files remotely; they went into the room where the servers were stored and began accessing files and deleting them.  It is impossible to do this by accident.

What the Arizona State Senate got from the audit team appears to be actionable evidence of crimes involving the deletion of election records. And the Senate announced it had passed this evidence on to the Arizona Attorney General, Mark Brnovich.

Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich

Having reportedly received this evidence by late Friday night, on Tuesday Brnovich publicly released two letters, one to the Arizona State Senate and one to the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors.

This is the very first thing Brnovich would do if he were about to launch his own investigation.

The letter to the Senate asked that body to check and make sure they had given to the Attorney General’s office completely unredacted and complete versions of the records detailing the alleged deletion of county election records.  The letter to the Maricopa Board of Supervisors was an order to preserve all election-related documents and files.

Which is going to be kind of a problem if the audit team’s allegations are found to be factual and hundreds of thousands of the 2020 election files that Maricopa County is now ordered to preserve have in fact already been deleted.

What do you suppose would happen should Brnovich return even a single criminal indictment against those involved in deleting these election records?

I’ve always thought the entire election theft narrative was never really going to get any traction in a mainstream media determined to ignore it until that media had to begin covering the indictments, arrests, and criminal trials of the corrupt local election officials in these battleground states.

Is that about to happen?

We’ll have to wait and see what Attorney General Brnovich does next.