by C. Mitchell Shaw, The New American:

As the Maricopa County full-hand recount and audit of the 2020 U.S. presidential election moves forward, Dominion Voting Systems — which provided and controlled the voting machines used at polling places — has refused to cooperate with the company conducting the audit. In a statement, Dominion said it will not turn passwords to the machines over to the IT firm Cyber Ninjas.

In a previous article, this writer told of an Arizona elections witness named Jan Bryant, who testified before the Arizona state legislature back in November. Bryant informed the state lawmakers that Dominion employees ran the election and that “no county employees, no IT people, no one else was touching any of the software.”

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I was in the tabulation center six different days. Day and night shifts. And no county employees, no IT people, no one else was touching any of the software. They (Dominion) did all the training for the adjudicators, they ran all the reports. And so I brought this up on my very first day in the room. I said this doesn’t seem right, as a person with my [IT] background. Never in a million years would I turn my company’s most important things over to someone else. And there’s only two guys (Dominion’s Bruce & John) and they had control of everything.

That testimony appears to be substantiated by an article from Gateway Pundit, which reported earlier this month that the “Maricopa County Election Board claimed this week they do not have ‘Admin’ access to their county’s voting machines.” That is because — as Bryant’s testimony seems to indicate — only Dominion employees have those passwords and that access.

That article also quotes Arizona Audit Director Ken Bennett in his interview with OAN as saying that Dominion is refusing to comply with the State Senate’s subpoena and is hiding the second password for their machines.

It beggars belief that election officials who are responsible for overseeing elections, certifying the ballots, and ensuring the integrity of those elections do not have access to the machines tabulating the results. But while belief is beggared, the fact remains that it is true.

And not only were Dominion employees the only ones able to access the software of the machines, but those Dominion employees also had a laptop computer in the room while ballots were being entered by hand. Bryant testified:

When I came in [to the Maricopa County Tabulation and Election Center] on Tuesday and walked around where they were doing the hand entry of ballots, I noticed that laptop sitting there and [Dominion employee] John was working on it. It’s not a secure room if you’re bringing a laptop in and out of a room. Who knows what happened there. Every one of the 50 desktops that were in there had a row of USB ports on the side of it. So I get very angry when I hear some of our leaders here saying “Oh, it’s secure. Nothing can get in or out.” That’s not true. I will tell you that is probably the biggest issue that I had.

And now, with a full-hand recount and forensic audit underway, Dominion — which holds the keys and claims to have nothing to hide — is flat refusing to grant that access to the company hired to conduct the forensic audit. That company — Cyber Ninjas — is an independent company with no ties to Dominion. In its statement, Dominion attacked Cyber Ninjas, claiming the the firm “is operating with a false, predetermined conclusion” that votes had been tampered with and that Cyber Ninjas is not “federally accredited.” The statement also claims that previous “proper audits” previously conducted by “two competing, independent firms” have already “proved the accuracy of the election” and that “safeguards make it functionally impossible to tamper with machines undetected.”

Brahm Resnik from Phoenix NBC affiliate KPNX 12 News tweeted a picture of a more pejorative-laden statement from Dominion:

NEW “No company should be compelled to participate in such an irresponsible act”: Dominion Voting Systems responds to Arizona Senate Republicans’ demand for passwords to ballot tabulators. pic.twitter.com/wjKI8ztwIj

— Brahm Resnik (@brahmresnik) May 13, 2021

Let’s unpack all that, shall we?

First, by comparing Cyber Ninjas to the “two competing, independent firms” that previously conducted audits that Dominion claims “proved the accuracy of the election,” the company’s statement omits some fairly important details. For instance, as Gateway Pundit reported, the Maricopa Board of Supervisors limited their choices to two companies, Pro V&V and SLI Compliance. Both of those companies have audited Dominion machines in the past and found everything to be just peachy. At the time, those companies worked on the audit of Dominion’s machines used in Maricopa County, neither appeared to hold current accreditation by the U.S. Election Assistance Commission (USEAC).

Since that audit, though — and Gateway Pundit’s reporting on that apparent lack of accreditation — the EAC updated its website to claim that the lack of accreditation for the companies was owing to the backlog caused by “COVID” and that Pro V&V and SLI Compliance have been accredited indefinitely as the EAC works its way through the backlog.

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