More #Breaking News From Arizona, Testimony May Enter Into Legal Battle Over Routers, Passwords

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The Arizona State senate is expected to issue subpoenas to the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors over their refusal to provide routers and passwords to the Forensic Audit Team.

County officials said they do not have the passwords that access administrative control functions of election machines and will not provide the routers for security reasons.

However, Audit Director Ken Bennett said the routers are vital to determine if the county’s election equipment was ever connected to the internet — and will show what data was transferred along with when and where that data was transferred.

Senate president Karen Fann said that the county’s refusal to produce the routers makes her wonder what they're hiding, adding that the county supervisors may not have the confidence in the results of the election.

And now new information is coming into the legal battle as resurfaced testimony from November of last year may explain why county officials do not have passwords or access to voting machines.

According Jan Bryant, who testified under oath before the Arizona State Legislature and worked for 6 days at the Maricopa County Election Center, ballots were being scanned offsite by Runbeck and then delivered to the election center for tabulation.

Those deliveries, Bryant said, happened in 2020 from Nov. 3rd to at least the 10th.

She said repeated explanations by supervisors at that time was that “Runbeck has high speed scanners”.

She also testified that the off site scanning was not done by dominion machines.

Below is testimony from Bryant

Jan Bryant: …ten days before they quit tabulating they thought they were done. And then more truck loads of ballots would come in. And I’m like, how can you not know how many ballots are still out there.

State House Rep. David L. Cook: Mr. Chairman I’m sorry. WOULD YOU REPEAT THAT. They thought they were done, and then there was WHAT?

Jan Bryant: They thought they were done multiple times. Multiple times the people that were running the rooms thought they were done (counting ballots), or almost done. Or were gonna be done Wednesday morning (Nov. 4th), then Thursday morning (Nov. 5th), then Friday morning. Then it went on the whole next week. And I’m like, I asked the question, You don’t know how many ballots are still left to come in? I don’t know who does, again…process…project management, but zero.

State House Rep. Mark Finchem: On that point Ma’am, I’m tracking with you but, what day did the truck show up?

Jan Bryant:Every day, yeah, every day.

Mark Finchem: OK. Just a minute. I want to make sure we capture this properly. So there were trucks that showed up on the 3rd, and then the 4th, and then the 5th, and how long did that go on. How many days?

Jan Bryant: I wasn’t there the whole last week. My last day was the 10th and they were still coming in. They were coming from a company called Runbeck, that does the high speed scanning and printing of duplications, and I think the military ballots. And now I’m getting out of my comfort level here talking about this. I don’t know what they are doing but those ballots are coming in from a high speed scanning company called Runbeck that…. apparently you haven’t heard of Runbeck.

Mark Finchem: No, I’ve heard of Runbeck Ma’am. What I’m trying to figure out is whether they printed them or if they scanned them. And if they scanned them offsite, to what purpose?

Jan Bryant: I can’t tell you.

Mark Finchem: Wasn’t that your job to scan them? I mean, not your job, but the (MCTEC).

Jan Bryant: No, all the high speed scanning happens at Runbeck. So, those ballots go to Runbeck. As far as I know there were no observers there. I don’t know. I never got called to work at Runbeck. That’s all I can tell you.

Mark Finchem: OK, with all do respect Mr. Cook, now we’ve now opened up a whole new can of worms.

Jan Bryant: And again I don’t know enough about it to be the witness.

Mark Finchem: No that’s fine. Your observation is useful here. What you telling me is the scanning wasn’t actually done on site at a Maricopa County structure. It was done someplace else.
Jan Bryant: Where they have very high speed scanners.

Mark Finchem: Right now I really don’t care what the speed is. I want to know were they Dominion scanners?

Jan Bryant: No, no, I don’t think it has anything to do with Dominion.

Mark Finchem: I’m trying to understand what was the purpose of scanning them in advance of them being tabulated on the Dominion equipment.