Author: Bear

Yesterday’s Arizona Senate/Auditors meeting was interesting. Taking the statements at face value, things are much worse for Maricopa County than I thought. The issue of no matching serial numbers on “spoiled” ballots that had to be duplicated appears to be an outright violation of state law (Bennett read the relevant text from the law in the meeting).

I think the Board of Supervisors shot themselves in the foot by not attending. As it was, the auditors were able to carefully and clearly lay out some preliminary findings without interruption. The BOS missed an opportunity to disrupt and confuse the presentation. In their place, I would have attended, but maybe they were busy packing for abrupt overseas vacations.

In fact, the auditors were able to explain the deleted directory, and its recovery, in enough clarified detail that the lefty mainstream media has to spin it away.

Arizona auditors backtrack, say no election data destroyed
Firms hired to run a partisan audit of the 2020 election for Senate Republicans in Arizona said Tuesday that data was not destroyed, reversing earlier allegations that election officials eliminated evidence

The auditors did not backtrack.

The auditors had not alleged that “election officials eliminated evidence.” What they had said was that a directory had been deleted. They did not say by whom, and they never said the data was “destroyed.”

In the computer world, “deleted” means that a file has been marked in the Master File Table to indicate that the physical portion of the drive where it is written is now available for reuse. But until a new file does get written over it, the data can be recovered simply by editing the MFT to say that’s still a live file, and space is not available for reuse. And that is what the auditors did. (Real pros, please be patient with my babytalk explanation.)

The difference between “deleted” and “destroyed” is why I have file space overwrite tools to permanently clear any personal data from old drives before tossing them out.

Despite the spin, as described, someone did delete the directory, and was stupid enough to not overwrite the old data. And to my way of thinking, that violates election data retention laws.

I briefly considered the possibility that “reporter” Jonathan J. Cooper might be computer-ignorant or stupid, rather than dishonest. Then I realized that although the story is on ABC, he’s listed as Associated Press. That swings the pointer way over to the dishonest side of the ignorant/liar probability meter.

Read the letter they “sent” to the President of the Senate. (As of this morning, Fann says it hasn’t been received.)

Evasion. Deliberate “misunderstanding. Bait & switch. Childish insults. Refusal to come to a hearing.

At the rate this seems to be going, the BOS may either flee the country, or beg the corrupt courts to put them in prison where honest citizens can’t get them.

Reports strongly indicate that Maricopa County basically outsourced their election to Dominion. I’m curious about the legality of that, but not quite enough to go scouring another state’s election law. I’m busy enough do that in my own state.

But here, the laws are pretty specific about who does what in preparing for and running an election: “The registrars shall” do this, “the superintendent shall” do that, “the chief manager and two assistant managers shall” do this. It’s all they shall do it; not they shall ensure someone does it.

There’s various good reasons for that. You know who was supposed to do something, and who to hold accountable if it isn’t done, or done badly. It ensures that folks getting their hands on voters’ info — not to mention the ballots — are at least theoretically properly vetted.

But Maricopa neither owns “their” election machines, nor administers them. A witness testified that Dominion ran the November 2020 election, that not even county IT personnel had access to the systems.

“So I’m, I was in the tabulation center six different days. Day and night shifts. And no county employees, no IT people, no one else was touching any of the software. They (Dominion) did all the training for the adjudicators, they ran all the reports. And so I brought this up on my very first day in the room. I said this doesn’t seem right, as a person with my background. Never in a million years would I turn my company’s most important things over to someone else. And there’s only two guys (Dominion’s Bruce & John) and they had whole control of everything,” she continued.

Not that it matters, what with our distinct lack of a functioning justice system, but do any Arizona residents know if that was legal there? It wouldn’t be in my state.

Sheriff ’round here might even humor me.

Matt DePerno BOMBSHELL: Michigan Attorney Says Anyone with Access to Voting Machine Tabulators Can Change an Election, Backdate Their Cheating (VIDEO)
Matt DePerno: And I’ll tell you something we discovered this weekend. We can now show that after the election is done, someone, anyone really who has access to those tabulators, can reopen the election, run more ballots through the tabulator, print off new tabulator tape with a new balance and backdate that tape to November 3rd.

Sure. Reset system time, run ballots, generate the tape, then set the clock back to the correct time. Done. That’s why access control for the systems is as important as ballot chain of custody.

…rendered in tally marks. Seems that Oxford finds Imperial measurements a little too eurocentric and… imperial.

Oxford University seeks to eliminate Imperial measurements and ‘diversify’ math, physics, and science courses in ‘decolonization’ push
Oxford University has recruited undergraduates at its’ school to research how its science curriculum can be “decolonized” to be made less “Eurocentric,” the Telegraph reports.
The university’s faculty suggests that imperial measurements are “tied deeply to the idea of the Empire,” and that changes could potentially be made in Oxford’s maths, physics and life sciences.

So Imperial is out.

Metric system? I figure a system devised in royal Bourbon France is unacceptable?

I propose quantum chromodynamics units. That’s pretty basic.

But it seems to me that even the numeral system is problematic. Arabic numerals? (edit:) Introduced to Europe Culturally appropriated by Europeans from colonizing imperialistic Moors.

Roman numerals? Imperial Rome.

Frankly, any widespread numeral system is going to be tied to colonizers, because that’s how they get widespread. I think we’re down to tally marks.

Now, you might think that converting STEM to a tally-rendered quantum_chromodynamics-based system of measure is difficult and silly, but think about it. Anyone who can actually do science and engineering that way clearly has a really good grasp of the subject. This counters the problem of snowflakes in social justice engineering programs.

Either that, or all the aircraft wings fall off.

Someone is claiming that the allegedly deleted database directory files from the Maricopa County EMS machine have been recovered.

Data Files Reportedly Deleted in Arizona Before Providing Machines to Senate Auditors May Have Been Recovered by the Audit Team
This past week we reported the bombshell that there were files that were erased from the machines requested to audit in Maricopa County only days before providing the machines to the Senate’s auditors.
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The image is of all the files that have been UNDELETED. That shows it was recovered by the forensic IT teams. It’s not to show us that they were deleted it is to show that they HAVE IT ALL.

If someone was attempting to delete incriminating data…

Well, at least they were slightly smarter than the idiot in Georgia Secretary of Scum Raffensperger’s office who tried deleting the phone call recording, but didn’t know enough to empty the trash.

Dominion’s EMS runs on Windows; so even emptying the trash isn’t good enough. That simply marks the drive space as available, but does not destroy the file. If it has not been over-written since, one merely runs a file recovery program, and restores the file.

The fool should have used BleachBit to secure delete and over-write the file space with 1s and 0s.

So if all this is for real, someone just set himself up — now, this assumes we had a functional justice system — for tampering with evidence charges, ass well as destruction of election data. And left the evidence intact.

Turns out it’s real.

BREAKING: the Biden admin has announced an exploratory committee to pick members of a Blue Ribbon commission that will develop Jones Act proposals that congress may consider to direct the Department of Transportation to address the urgent gasoline supply shortage.

‘Cuz nothing says “urgent” like the admin forming a committee to form a commission to think about the Jones Act and suggest things that Congress can have the admin do.

Added: Why the secretary of Transportation simply can’t say, In this emergency, it is not “practicable” to limit fuel transport between American ports to US-flagged vessels beats me. The Jones Act does seem to allow that:

a)In General.—The Secretary of Transportation shall survey the merchant marine of the United States to determine whether replacements and additions are required to carry out the objectives and policy of section 50101 of this title. The Secretary shall study, perfect, and adopt a long-range program for replacements and additions that will result, as soon as practicable, in—
[…]
(2)ownership and operation of the fleet by citizens of the United States insofar as practicable;

The administration can do that. You don’t need a study to propose legislation to tell the administration to do that.

As seen at this morning’s Far Side.

Obviously Dimocrats, blaming the inanimate object.