Antrim County Michigan. The adjudication computer file was missing for the Biden/Trump election but was present for past elections.
Except it wasn't.
It was
claimed to be missing, but the "auditors" didn't actually understand what they were looking at and made a bunch of mistakes. Including not realising which files were, or were not, in the system.
That's because Antrim County
DOESN'T USE A DIGITAL ADJUDICATION SYSTEM. It uses a manual one, with a pair of observers looking at the paper ballot.
It also does not own a license for adjudication software applications and services which could be used with its voting machine/software combination. Nor has it installed the adjudication software on its machines.
In addition, Antrim County's voting system tabulators aren't even compatible with the digital adjudication system used for their voting machines.
In other words, there was no computer file that was missing, because there were no such computer file in the first place. No such computer file could exist. It is an impossibility.
So, I was right.
No such file existed.
The amount of errors recorded was far above the legal limit, the deleted file would show the location where those ballots with errors were adjudicated.
That would be amazing if it did, given there was no file to be deleted in the first place.
Also, the "auditors" messed up again - mistaking ballots with any one of three classes of exceptions requiring special handling or consideration for ballots with "errors". This could be something as simple as misalignment of check-marks for the voting tabulation machines or where a mistake on a ballot has been crossed out or corrected.
There's a saying: "Entertain a clown and you become part of the circus".
The "auditors" of the voting machines used in Antrim County were clowns. Partisan, conspiracy-spouting, clowns. Making fools of themselves in public.
None of them had any declared cybersecurity expertise or experience. None of them had any expertise or experience with voting machine hardware, firmware or software. What they actually were was partisan, political operatives looking to stir up more deranged lunacy about the election.
To quote the independent review of their claims, the "auditors" displayed "gross negligence in the research, review, and forensic analysis performed", and this was an effort "intentionally derived, based on biases and a predetermined outcome, to spread mis and disinformation that has been previously disputed by the election community, federal government, and experts alike".
@Valletta: There's a reason why this audit went absolutely nowhere. It was about as serious and legitimate as Donald Trump's marriage vows. When examined, these claims are just that, claims. Not evidence, not support. When actual independent experts - private sector and state and federal - looked at what they wrote, nothing stood up to scrutiny. Literally nothing.
Cherry on top - the "auditors" are now being sued for damages by the voting machine company. Speech has consequences.