17 Def Motion for Summary by County Attorney Chris Straub Pima County Election

The database files requested by the Democratic Party contain procedural programming as it is defined in AZ legislation and the rules that originate with the SoS. Both sides agree on the point that the files created by the GEMS election software gives instructions used by memory cards used in election machines, which indicates that they contain sensitive computer programming. In their depositions, the experts for the Pima County Dems agree that the files the party wants contain code. He agreed with the Dems that the GEMS election software has significant security flaws, that the databases are not secure, and that they can be altered using Microsoft Access without using GEMS software. That is the reason he doesn't want this database to be in the public domain, because it can be so easily hacked into. The Dem Party should not be allowed to look at database files from past elections because they will reveal a pattern of how the county sets up elections, which could be used by someone wanting to manipulate the election from the outside. There might be enough information in the databases to allow someone to create ballots that could be used to stuff the ballot boxes. Also, if the databases were released and their results were called into question, that could cast doubt in people's minds of the trustworthiness of our elections. Hackers are imaginative people, and no one can predict the methods they might use to manipulate data, which makes the system very vulnerable. If the judge rules that the database files are public record, the county would have to give anyone in the public access. Since the databases are so easily manipulated and it can be done without revealing any trace of the manipulation, it would be of very little value to the Dem Party to have access to databases.
The Dem Party has seen audit logs from the elections and other records, and it has found no evidence of fraud. Allegations are based on innuendo. The company that the AG hired to look at the results of an election the Dem Party said might have been manipulated RTA stated in its report that it found no evidence of fraud. If it is true that Crane, a computer tec with the Elections Div took home a CD backup of the election results, there is no evidence he manipulated the results. There are innocent explanations for these things.

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