Forwarded from Arizona Blade Channel
Friday, September 17, 2021 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Statement from Arizona State Senate President Karen Fann Maricopa County agrees to settle with Arizona State Senate
"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. The agreement sets up a Special Master paid for by the County, who will get the answers to questions the Senate has had concerning the routers and splunk logs used in the 2020 election. Former Congressman John Shadegg will serve as the Special Master, working with computer technology experts. The Senate will finally get the answers to questions asked for in subpoenas issued to the County months ago.
In addition, the County has agreed to drop its notice of claim of $2.8 million to replace election equipment delivered to the Senate as required in the January subpoena. Experts have told us there is nothing that has been compromised or damaged by the audit, and the Secretary of State failed to follow procedures regarding decertifying the machines. There is no reason taxpayers should be on the hook for purchasing unnecessary new election equipment.
I look forward to getting our final questions answered and wrapping up the review of the election in Maricopa County."
- AZ Senate GOP
Statement from Arizona State Senate President Karen Fann Maricopa County agrees to settle with Arizona State Senate
"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. The agreement sets up a Special Master paid for by the County, who will get the answers to questions the Senate has had concerning the routers and splunk logs used in the 2020 election. Former Congressman John Shadegg will serve as the Special Master, working with computer technology experts. The Senate will finally get the answers to questions asked for in subpoenas issued to the County months ago.
In addition, the County has agreed to drop its notice of claim of $2.8 million to replace election equipment delivered to the Senate as required in the January subpoena. Experts have told us there is nothing that has been compromised or damaged by the audit, and the Secretary of State failed to follow procedures regarding decertifying the machines. There is no reason taxpayers should be on the hook for purchasing unnecessary new election equipment.
I look forward to getting our final questions answered and wrapping up the review of the election in Maricopa County."
- AZ Senate GOP
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Maricopa County agrees to settle with Arizona State Senate #AZSenate @FannKfann
Forwarded from Wendy Rogers
I saw the settlement agreement with Maricopa. I am researching what the heck happened. Will let you guys know when I find out. Stand by.
Forwarded from Senator Kelly Townsend
Bad news, folks.
I am inquiring as to why this happened and we'll let you know as soon as I find out.
https://twitter.com/Garrett_Archer/status/1439031342155452416?s=19
I am inquiring as to why this happened and we'll let you know as soon as I find out.
https://twitter.com/Garrett_Archer/status/1439031342155452416?s=19
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The AZ - abc15 - Data Guru
#BREAKING @MaricopaCounty has reached a settlement with the state senate. Subpoena is dropped. Routers will not be handed over.
Forwarded from Senator Kelly Townsend
Okay I have an update. It appears that this guy who tweeted about the situation (Data Guru) was not accurate. What this settlement is, is that the County Supervisors will give the Splunk logs and the routers over to a third party, a trusted source which is a former Congressman in Arizona, John Shadegg. Then cyber ninjas will be able to get everything that they want from him. So he is basically a caretaker of the data/ trusted 3rd party and we will still have access, so this is actually a win for us. We will have the information from both the routers and the splunk logs. I apologize for the blood pressure spike and let's see what we get out of this.
Forwarded from Senator Kelly Townsend
Additionally, the demand needs to be that anything that is done with these routers or Splunk logs needs to be done with our Auditors present and observing. Anything and everything they ask for it needs to be provided and it cannot be done somewhere else without observers seeing it done that we trust.
Forwarded from Wendy Rogers
President Trump told us to get the routers. We are getting them. Appropriate: https://rumble.com/vkywfu-hilarious-remix-of-president-trumps-router-speech.html
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Hilarious Remix of President Trump’s Router Speech
Maricopa County Settlement Agreement
Highlights and Areas of Concern:
1. Congressman John Shadegg will be Special Master. He will hire 1-3 computer technology experts to assist him in responding to the Senate’s questions.
2. The Special Master will have sole authority to hire his expert team. Each team member will sign non-disclosures “stating that no information the team member acquired during their employment will be disclosed, revealed, released, published, or otherwise disseminated to any person or entity other than the Special Master.”
3. Maricopa County’s counsel can “brief any purported grounds for withholding” an answer. The investigatory time period is limited to 10/7 - 11/20.
4. “The Special Master and his team will NOT COPY (to any device or in any form) any of the information they review or observe during the course of their work.”
[Given #2 and #4, how does Cyber Ninjas have “full access”? It sounds like they are prohibited from observing in person and from viewing copies of the data?]
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7. The County has still not produced the digital images of the ballot envelopes, which were commanded to be produced by 7/26/21. They must produce them by 9/22/21.
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9. The Senate agrees upon execution of this agreement to send the AG a letter saying the County has fully complied with the outstanding subpoenas and no further action is warranted.
The County maintains that it does not have the passwords and security tokens and they are not addressed further in this agreement.
Read Full Agreement 📃https://www.maricopa.gov/DocumentCenter/View/71353/Agreement
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Highlights and Areas of Concern:
1. Congressman John Shadegg will be Special Master. He will hire 1-3 computer technology experts to assist him in responding to the Senate’s questions.
2. The Special Master will have sole authority to hire his expert team. Each team member will sign non-disclosures “stating that no information the team member acquired during their employment will be disclosed, revealed, released, published, or otherwise disseminated to any person or entity other than the Special Master.”
3. Maricopa County’s counsel can “brief any purported grounds for withholding” an answer. The investigatory time period is limited to 10/7 - 11/20.
4. “The Special Master and his team will NOT COPY (to any device or in any form) any of the information they review or observe during the course of their work.”
[Given #2 and #4, how does Cyber Ninjas have “full access”? It sounds like they are prohibited from observing in person and from viewing copies of the data?]
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7. The County has still not produced the digital images of the ballot envelopes, which were commanded to be produced by 7/26/21. They must produce them by 9/22/21.
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9. The Senate agrees upon execution of this agreement to send the AG a letter saying the County has fully complied with the outstanding subpoenas and no further action is warranted.
The County maintains that it does not have the passwords and security tokens and they are not addressed further in this agreement.
Read Full Agreement 📃https://www.maricopa.gov/DocumentCenter/View/71353/Agreement
Learn more 🔎🧵 AZ Thread
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‘Access to Everything We Wanted’
Senator Fann remains very confident that the auditors will have full access. What does she have planned? Any chance Shadegg is hiring Cyber Ninjas as his ‘expert team’?😂 The contract doesn’t prohibit it.
- Karen Fann
Senator Fann remains very confident that the auditors will have full access. What does she have planned? Any chance Shadegg is hiring Cyber Ninjas as his ‘expert team’?😂 The contract doesn’t prohibit it.
- Karen Fann
Forwarded from Jellenne
I see a lot being made of the selection of John Shadegg as "Special Master" and his previous affliations with many parties including Supervisor Hickman (of everyone's favorite chicken farm fire story). His dad was BFF with Goldwater. He practiced law in Phx, working with several campaigns, was the point man for Gov Evan Mechan's impeachment. He represented AZ 3rd/4th Congressional District from '95-'11. He chaired the Republican STudy Committee, House Republican Policy Committee, ran against Boehner for Speaker in '06, and against Blunt for Whip losing each. Voted against Fed min wage, supported border wall, wanted to investigate CAIR, against ACA, against TARP, supported Tea Part efforts speaking at a rally in Phoenix. Since retiring from Congress has worked with several law firms, often as a lobbyist. As I've said previously, anyone in AZGOP politics has rubbed elbows with many efforts and individuals that in the light of today may not hold our respect or appreciation. That said I've not heard the usual noise about Shadegg. Thus far he seems to have been a selection least objectionable for both parties, which is usually the path they take in structuring an agreement. Again, this is Fann's deal. She seems happy with it.
Forwarded from Praying Medic (Dave Hayes)
I've followed the Maricopa audit closely from its inception. Karen Fann has yet to make a move that has proved to be foolish. The same cannot be said of her detractors. While I'm not by nature trusting of politicians, I've extended trust to Fann because she has earned it. I'm content to reserve judgment on the choice of John Shadegg as "Special Master" of the agreement with Maricopa County until and unless an actual problem becomes evident. If evidence of an actual conflict of interest does become evident, I trust that Fann and the Senate will remedy it.
Forwarded from TruthHammer 🙏🇺🇸 (DM's & Channel Spam are FAKERS.) (TruthHammer888)
On this post Dave and I differ slightly.
I’m an accountant, an IT person, and more specifically a Systems Architect.
I’m keenly aware of the difference between allowing “our guys” to examine the evidence directly TO SEE WHAT THEY FIND vs using a chosen middleman to act as a buffer.
One of the reasons you do audits is because you aren’t sure what mistakes you’re looking for. You comb through everything before you can render an opinion that the subject matter is “free of material error”.
As it stands now, the people have been denied the opportunity to OPENLY VERIFY that Maricopa election systems were, or were not, remotely accessed during the election. Very substantial people have made such allegations, and other “substantial” people appear to have just made a back room deal to keep that evidence from being fully examined.
I don’t even trust Trump that much. I want that shit examined and not with a dirty lobbyist as any kind of gatekeeper.
If you know any professional lobbyists IRL, like I do, you know they are very much invested in relationships and status quo. They don’t kick hornets nests to see what comes out, or “disrupt apple carts”.
IN MY OPINION
Hammer out. /rant over
https://t.iss.one/praying_medic/5185
I’m an accountant, an IT person, and more specifically a Systems Architect.
I’m keenly aware of the difference between allowing “our guys” to examine the evidence directly TO SEE WHAT THEY FIND vs using a chosen middleman to act as a buffer.
One of the reasons you do audits is because you aren’t sure what mistakes you’re looking for. You comb through everything before you can render an opinion that the subject matter is “free of material error”.
As it stands now, the people have been denied the opportunity to OPENLY VERIFY that Maricopa election systems were, or were not, remotely accessed during the election. Very substantial people have made such allegations, and other “substantial” people appear to have just made a back room deal to keep that evidence from being fully examined.
I don’t even trust Trump that much. I want that shit examined and not with a dirty lobbyist as any kind of gatekeeper.
If you know any professional lobbyists IRL, like I do, you know they are very much invested in relationships and status quo. They don’t kick hornets nests to see what comes out, or “disrupt apple carts”.
IN MY OPINION
Hammer out. /rant over
https://t.iss.one/praying_medic/5185
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Some have criticized the process by which the AZ Senate will obtain information about the routers and logs that Maricopa County refused to turn over. I'm not an IT expert. I don't know what information can or cannot be obtained by the process the Senate has…
Forwarded from Jellenne
I realize many people may never have much experience in negotiating legal agreements between opposing parties (fortunately for them) but the parties don't "agree" to something where one side totally wins and the other is totally screwed. So please keep that in mind when you're reading quick screeds about this one.
Forwarded from Merissa Caldwell
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Arizona Recently Processed 673,000 Voter Identities with the Social Security Administration – 58% Had No Match Found
TGP reports: “In the last 10 weeks, Arizona has checked the voter registration credentials with the Social Security Administration (SSA) on 673,560 applicants. This is a huge number considering most states, including Arizona, typically process around 2,500 a month.”
Ordinarily, states use the Help America Vote Verification (HAVV) interface provided by the Social Security Administration to verify the identity of new voter registrations when no driver’s license is provided.
According to TGP, “in the first week of July, Arizona jumped from processing 500-600 a week, to a massive 70,000 a week. This volume stopped on September 10th and is now back down to a few hundred. No match was found on 393,017 — 58% — of the 673,560 voters submitted by Arizona over the last 10 weeks,” which is double the average rejection rate of about 27%.
Is it a coincidence that Arizona checked nearly 700K voter registrations just as the ballot count portion of the audit was ending? The The 10-week surge could also be related to Senator Kelly Townsend’s voter roll clean up bill, SB1819.
The entire 10-year HAVV Excel dataset for all states can be downloaded here from the SSA. CA topped the list of ineligible registrations — 77% of their 8.3M submissions over the last 10 years had no match.
Read 🗞 TGP
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TGP reports: “In the last 10 weeks, Arizona has checked the voter registration credentials with the Social Security Administration (SSA) on 673,560 applicants. This is a huge number considering most states, including Arizona, typically process around 2,500 a month.”
Ordinarily, states use the Help America Vote Verification (HAVV) interface provided by the Social Security Administration to verify the identity of new voter registrations when no driver’s license is provided.
According to TGP, “in the first week of July, Arizona jumped from processing 500-600 a week, to a massive 70,000 a week. This volume stopped on September 10th and is now back down to a few hundred. No match was found on 393,017 — 58% — of the 673,560 voters submitted by Arizona over the last 10 weeks,” which is double the average rejection rate of about 27%.
Is it a coincidence that Arizona checked nearly 700K voter registrations just as the ballot count portion of the audit was ending? The The 10-week surge could also be related to Senator Kelly Townsend’s voter roll clean up bill, SB1819.
The entire 10-year HAVV Excel dataset for all states can be downloaded here from the SSA. CA topped the list of ineligible registrations — 77% of their 8.3M submissions over the last 10 years had no match.
Read 🗞 TGP
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The Gateway Pundit
What's Going On? Arizona Recently Processed 673,000 Voter Identities with the Social Security Administration - 58% Had NO MATCH…
In the last 10 weeks, Arizona has checked the voter registration credentials with the Social Security Administration (SSA) on 673,560 applicants.
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Senate President Karen Fann Discusses Maricopa County Settlement Agreement: ‘It’s a Huge Win’
Senator Fann spoke with Jordan Conradson to review the Maricopa County settlement, calling it “a huge win.” According to Fann’s interpretation of the contract, independent IT professionals chosen by the Special Master will extrapolate everything Ben Cotton and Cyber Ninjas need, including screenshots if necessary.
She added, “we still have 100% full control. …If we need something else tomorrow, if we don’t think they’re being above board with us, we can issue another subpoena tomorrow and we’ll start this all over if we need to.”
Regarding Special Master John Shadegg’s work for Supervisor Clint Hickman🥚 a few years ago, she said, “everybody has done work for everybody around here.”
Fann reassured Jordan that an entire section of Friday’s audit report will cover deleted items and concluded by saying, AG Brnovich will handle “the criminal side of it.”
Hat tip🤠 @praying_medic
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Senator Fann spoke with Jordan Conradson to review the Maricopa County settlement, calling it “a huge win.” According to Fann’s interpretation of the contract, independent IT professionals chosen by the Special Master will extrapolate everything Ben Cotton and Cyber Ninjas need, including screenshots if necessary.
She added, “we still have 100% full control. …If we need something else tomorrow, if we don’t think they’re being above board with us, we can issue another subpoena tomorrow and we’ll start this all over if we need to.”
Regarding Special Master John Shadegg’s work for Supervisor Clint Hickman🥚 a few years ago, she said, “everybody has done work for everybody around here.”
Fann reassured Jordan that an entire section of Friday’s audit report will cover deleted items and concluded by saying, AG Brnovich will handle “the criminal side of it.”
Hat tip🤠 @praying_medic
@LibertyOverwatchChannel
❗️Update - This Special Session Has Been Cancelled: Maricopa County Supervisors Holding Another Public Meeting Monday Regarding Senate Subpoena
Via @AZinformer
The Maricopa County Supervisors will meet at 1:00 PM PT Monday to discuss “Possible action as directed in 9/20 Executive Session regarding the election and compliance with the Senate subpoena and litigation.”
Live video feeds will be available on-line via:
• www.Maricopa.Gov, or
• www.Maricopa.Gov/324
• GotoWebinar.com
(using webinar ID 794-085-291)
Pre-registration may be done via this link: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/6883980047091656717
• YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gR3HWIggi20
To listen by telephone, dial 562-247-8422, when prompted enter audio access code 510-517-123, then # at the prompt for the PIN
Meetings will not be active until the time and date of the meeting.
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Via @AZinformer
The Maricopa County Supervisors will meet at 1:00 PM PT Monday to discuss “Possible action as directed in 9/20 Executive Session regarding the election and compliance with the Senate subpoena and litigation.”
Live video feeds will be available on-line via:
• www.Maricopa.Gov, or
• www.Maricopa.Gov/324
• GotoWebinar.com
(using webinar ID 794-085-291)
Pre-registration may be done via this link: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/6883980047091656717
• YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gR3HWIggi20
To listen by telephone, dial 562-247-8422, when prompted enter audio access code 510-517-123, then # at the prompt for the PIN
Meetings will not be active until the time and date of the meeting.
Subscribe: @AzInformer🇺🇸