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The federal government considers the integrity of elections a matter of national security, especially after the hacking the Russians did in 2016(no votes were changed, but state servers were broken into, perhaps as a test run). One of our best protections against foreign interference is that each county runs its own to the point where they can be vastly different from one another. Local governments can and often are considerable more corrupt than the federal one.I can't say what will happen, the federal government is trying to take over the election process, but I think a lot more people are becoming aware of government dishonesty and corruption.
The audit was not supposed to interfere with the day to day operations of the Board of Elections which includes cleaning up the databases in preparation for the next election cycle. The voting details contain millions of records, at least one for each vote cast and counted. Once the normal audits have been completed and the results certified, there is no reason to keep the details on the main server once they have been safely archived. The old files that remain are probably summary records that may need to be referenced by the board and for FOI requests. I'm pretty sure that they will also need the summaries to cross reference with the last census data for the 10 year redistricting initiative.The "archiving for more room" story is baloney, they left data out there from old elections but deleted the file from the recent election.
The law says the data needs to be kept for a certain length of time, but it does not say that it has to be kept on the workaday database; the archives are the perfect place to keep them. Furthermore, the database server is not a single piece but an array. It was mentioned in news reports that the Ninjas didn't realize that it was a RAID - which is odd because that is standard these days.
One good thing about this Big Lie is that no one is still arguing in favor of internet voting.
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