Sheriff Goes Ballistic After Arizona Recounters Demand Access To County Passwords
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· Trends Reporter, HuffPost
Sheriff Paul Penzone (D) said in a statement that providing router information to a shadowy private company led by a conspiracy-embracing CEO would compromise sensitive and highly classified law enforcement data and equipment.
“The Senate Republican Caucus’ audit of the Maricopa County votes from last November’s election has no stopping point,” Penzone said. “Now, its most recent demands jeopardize the entire mission of the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office.”
In addition, citizens’ private information, including voting histories, addresses, phone numbers and Social Security numbers, could fall into the hands of Cyber Ninjas, the company hired by the GOP-led Senate to conduct the recount.
In response to Senate subpoenas last week, county attorney Allister Adel explained in a letter that turning over the requested routers or “virtual images” of routers not only poses a significant security risk to the sheriff’s office, it also “puts sensitive, confidential data belonging to Maricopa County’s citizens — including Social Security numbers and protected health information — at risk as well ,” reported the Arizona Republic.
Access to the routers “might compromise county and federal law enforcement efforts and put the lives of law enforcement personnel at risk,” Adel added.
The recount of 2020 races Democrats won in Maricopa County, which includes Phoenix, was launched last month by Cyber Ninjas, owned by conspiracy theorist Doug Logan, who retweeted messages months ago predicting that any Arizona audit would inevitably uncover hundreds of thousands of uncounted votes for Donald Trump .
Logan’s company is examining ballots using ultraviolet light in a crackpot hunt for “bamboo” particles that allegedly would suggest the ballots were planted by China.
One of the recounters is a former local lawmaker who was at the Capitol riot . Former state Rep. Anthony Kern’s name is also on the ballots he’s “auditing,” as both a candidate for reelection (he lost) and as an elector for Trump.
The county has already turned over all 2.1 million general election ballots, voter information and election equipment to the Cyber Ninjas in response to state Senate subpoenas.
Last week, the state Senate decided to delay the personal canvassing of voters, in which Cyber Ninjas operatives grilled residents about their voting. Republicans in the Senate backed off after receiving a complaint from the U.S. Department of Justice that such action could amount to illegal voter intimidation and civil rights violations .
Arizona Senate President Karen Fann told the Justice Department that if that portion of the project is restarted, canvassers “ will not carry a firearm or other weapons ” when they knock on citizens’ doors.
Pamela Karlan, principal deputy assistant attorney general in the DOJ’s
Civil Rights Division, also expressed concern in her letter to Fann that ballots were not secure , since they’re “no longer under the ultimate control of elections officials, are not being adequately safeguarded by contractors , and are at risk of damage or loss.”
It’s been almost six months since Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey (R) certified the state’s election results, with Joe Biden beating Trump by 10,457 votes. Biden edged out Trump by more than 2 percentage points ― about 45,000 votes ― in Maricopa County.
Since then, multiple election audits have been conducted in the county, with no fraud or irregularities.
Trump, who persists in lying that he won the election and that it was stolen from him, has been telling guests at his Mar-A-Lago resort in Florida that a vote “upset” in Arizona claimed by the Cyber Ninjas could be his road back to the White House .
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Sheriff Paul Penzone (D) said in a statement that providing router information to a shadowy private company led by a conspiracy-embracing CEO would compromise sensitive and highly classified law enforcement data and equipment.
“The Senate Republican Caucus’ audit of the Maricopa County votes from last November’s election has no stopping point,” Penzone said. “Now, its most recent demands jeopardize the entire mission of the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office.”
I was looking for this to seed.
This is getting beyond ridiculous.
These idiots need to be shut down.
There is no way in hell they should be able to get access to everyone's info.
Starting to sound fascist.
... starting?
What the hell do router passwords have to do with counting ballots?
Seems to me that they are not finding what they wanted so are trying other avenues.
If this is allowed, what is to stop other partisan groups from getting all this information.
If this was Democrats pulling shit like this we all know that the republicans would be screaming bloody murder.
This is a GQP group, trying to access voting records of a GOP state, more than likely to find and punish those that voted for Biden. Next wave of voter suppression laws will specifically target these "turncoats".
wow just wow... is there any sanity left in conservative America?
Conservatives are a dying breed.
They must worship at the orange alter.
There is the 1% but the other 99% grip on sanity is tenuous at best.
"Fann, the Republican Senate president, insisted again Saturday that the audit has nothing to do with Trump and everything to do with the large segment of GOP voters who he convinced that he actually won, despite the lack of evidence.
“Everybody keeps saying, oh, there’s no evidence and it’s like, yeah, well let’s do the audit and if there’s nothing there, then we say look, there was nothing there,” Fann said. “If we find something, and it’s a big if, but if we find something, then we can say, OK, we do have evidence and now how do we fix this.”
They're looking for something that doesn't exist
Fann sounds like a moron.
Has nothing to do with donald yet it is about him not winning...
How stupid are the idiots that think he makes sense.
I am thinking the new republicans are some of the dumbest people on the planet.
Either this crackpot recounting will end up declaring Trump the winner, or,....... well, there is no or.
If they dont declare Trump the winner he will dog them to the end of their days.
With them having no oversight and no telling what they are doing to the ballots, anything they come up with is going to be manipulated to fit their narrative.
They'll probably still declare Trump the winner, but refuse to provide any of the evidence that they'll claim to have found.
Anything they find now is suspect. How the hell will they find the 45,000 votes that trumpturd lost by?
They're not looking for new votes, they are trying to find an excuse to throw out 45,000 Biden votes. How much do you want to bet that they find 0 Trump votes to throw out?
Ah! Sorry, this is all so fucked up!
I actually find their absolutely panicked, desperation hilarious. All this to impress a 6 time loser, Trump.
I can almost guarantee that some if not all of the recounters are Trumpturds. No way in hell should they be given acess to anything except for the ballots. Anything else is none of their fing business.
They should have never been given access to the ballots. There were already several recounts with no irregularities found.
Which is why they were given access.
All the recounts did was find uncounted votes for Biden.
Don't forget the 2 fraudulent votes for Trump.
Those also.
Next up, Cyber Ninjas and Donald will demand that the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office be defunded.
"Last week, the state Senate decided to delay the personal canvassing of voters, in which Cyber Ninjas operatives grilled residents about their voting. Republicans in the Senate backed off after receiving a complaint from the U.S. Department of Justice that such action could amount to illegal voter intimidation and civil rights violations .
Arizona Senate President Karen Fann told the Justice Department that if that portion of the project is restarted, canvassers “ will not carry a firearm or other weapons ” when they knock on citizens’ doors."
I don't answer my door for anyone even before Co-Vid.
What makes these whackjobs think people will answer their doors to these thugs?