Arizona Auditor: Did Not Backtrack on Election Database Deletion Allegation

A forensic auditor helping conduct an audit of 2020 election machines in Arizona’s largest county on Thursday disputed reports claiming he backtracked on allegations that files were deleted from one of the machines.
Arizona Auditor: Did Not Backtrack on Election Database Deletion Allegation
Ben Cotton, founder of CyFIR, one of four firms working on the 2020 election audit in Maricopa County, Ariz., testifies to state senators in Phoenix on May 18, 2021. Arizona Capitol Television via NTD/Screenshot via The Epoch Times
Zachary Stieber
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A forensic auditor helping conduct an audit of 2020 election machines in Arizona’s largest county disputed on May 20 reports claiming he backtracked on allegations that files were deleted from one of the machines.

“My testimony on May 19th before the AZ Senate is being taken out of context by some media outlets. To confirm: the ‘Databases’ directory on the EMS Primary Server WAS deleted containing the voting databases. I was able to recover the deleted databases through forensic data recovery processes,” Ben Cotton, founder of CyFIR, said in a statement emailed to The Epoch Times by the audit’s liaison.

Zachary Stieber
Zachary Stieber
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Zachary Stieber is a senior reporter for The Epoch Times based in Maryland. He covers U.S. and world news. Contact Zachary at [email protected]
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