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    BREAKING: Newly Declassified FBI Files Reveal Massive Maricopa Voter Data Breach – 633k Records – But No One Was Prosecuted

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    The White House has released a series of now-declassified documents regarding the 2020 election.  In one document specifically, details surrounding a mysterious incident that took place in Maricopa County have been revealed.

    The newly-declassified documents show that a hacker was able to obtain approximately 633,000 records of Maricopa County voters, including information on 930 voters that was not publicly available, including domestic abuse victims, according to a letter from FBI Director Kash Patel to the White House Task Force on Government Transparency.

    However, according to an interview in November 2020 with a redacted name, the hacker believed they had extracted 1,000,000 to 2,000,000 files, estimated to be four gigabytes of data, using a PowerShell script to exploit the Maricopa County Recorder’s website.

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    Maricopa County reported the intrusion through the Arizona Counter Terrorism Information Center on November 2. By Election Day, November 3, the incident was being circulated among federal election-security officials.

    The subject attempted to eliminate the locally and remotely stored copies before the FBI executed its search warrant.   The U.S. Attorney’s Office in the District of Arizona, the then-Republican-led Attorney General of Arizona, the Maricopa County District Attorney, and the Pinal County District Attorney all declined to prosecute the hacker, despite having evidence and a confession from the hacker.

    Further, in an interview with the FBI, the hacker acknowledged that he knew he was going to be visited by “law enforcement,” so he deleted and reformatted his hard drives and deleted his Google Cloud data.  He confessed to the destruction of evidence while seeming to acknowledge he was aware he had committed a crime.  But no one would investigate.  Not the US Attorney, not the Arizona Attorney General, nor the Maricopa or Pinal County District Attorney.

    The Gateway Pundit reported in December 2020 that FBI Agents raided the home of Elliot Kerwin, a then-56 year old IT expert.  At the time, it was believed that investigators were looking for “evidence of a cyberattack on an unnamed organization and stolen voter data,” according to Forbes.

    One of the declassified reports appears to focus on the incident involving Kerwin in Fountain Hills, a town in Maricopa County; however, Kerwin is not mentioned specifically by name in the released documents.

    The American public was left to speculate the extent that Kerwin was able to penetrate the Maricopa County Recorder’s voter registration infrastructure.  Reporting at the time told us that there was no access to the election management system or the tabulation systems and that the voter information he was able to extract was publicly available.

    The newly released Election Day records raise questions about the government’s public messaging during and following the 2020 Election.  Federal election security officials were internally aware that an intruder had exploited a Maricopa County website and exposed hundreds of thousands of voter records.

    Yet no contemporaneous public acknowledgement of this particular incident from CISA has been identified.

    That omission is significant because federal and industry election officials subsequently declared through Chris Krebs, then-Director of CISA, that the 2020 election was “the most secure in American history.”  This, despite knowing that approximately 633,000 records were taken, and that the suspect believed it was 1 to 2 million.  But no one can know for sure because he deleted the files because he believed he’d get a visit from the FBI.

    The question is therefore not whether these documents prove that election results were altered—they do not. The question is why a confirmed breach involving approximately 633,000 voter records, including hundreds of sensitive records, apparently received no comparable public disclosure, and why a confessed intruder was never prosecuted.

     

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    The post BREAKING: Newly Declassified FBI Files Reveal Massive Maricopa Voter Data Breach – 633k Records – But No One Was Prosecuted appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.





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