Dominion Machine Forensic Exam: User Logs That Show Activity, Network Connections Deleted Day After Election – 2020 Only Year Missing

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A forensic examination of Dominion voting machines in Antrim County, Michigan, has found important records of how votes were tabulated, as well as other information such as network connections made to and from the machines, were deleted the day after Election Day.

It further found those records, or logs, for the year 2020 were the only ones deleted. Logs for previous years remain.

From the report:

“Significantly, the computer system shows vote adjudication logs for prior years; but all adjudication log entries for the 2020 election cycle are missing. The adjudication process is the simplest way to manually manipulate votes. The lack of records prevents any form of audit accountability, and their conspicuous absence is extremely suspicious since the files exist for previous years using the same software. Removal of these files violates state law and prevents a meaningful audit, even if the Secretary wanted to conduct an audit. We must conclude that the 2020 election cycle records have been manually removed.”

“Likewise, all server security logs prior to 11:03 pm on November 4, 2020 are missing. This means that all security logs for the day after the election, on election day, and prior to election day are gone. Security logs are very important to an audit trail, forensics, and for detecting advanced persistent threats and outside attacks, especially on systems with outdated system files. These logs would contain domain controls, authentication failures, error codes, times users logged on and off, network connections to file servers between file accesses, internet connections, times, and data transfers. Other server logs before November 4, 2020 are present; therefore, there is no reasonable explanation for the security logs to be missing.”

The examination also found that an unauthorized user attempted to wipe clean the 2020 election results several weeks after the Nov. 4 election.

“On November 21, 2020, an un authorized user unsuccessfully attempted to zero out election results. This demonstrates additional tampering with data.”

The examination was conducted by a seven-person team from the Allied Security Operations Group (ASOG), a government cybersecurity task force, who examined the machines on Dec. 6.

The report was ordered released by a federal judge yesterday.

 

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