The FBI is so badly broken, perhaps irretrievably, so I do worry. The FBI is not trustworthy since Obama weaponized it against the American people.
Arizona federal officials raided a home in the Fountain Hills area in Maricopa County on November 5.
Elliot Kerwin (Maricopa County) had laptops and USB drives seized from his home on 11.5. Investigation into potential voter record hacking ongoing.
The agents confiscated eight hard drives, three computers and a bag of USB sticks. The house belongs to 56-year-old Elliot Kerwin.
The search warrant sought records relating to computer intrusion or conspiracy to commit computer intrusion from Oct. 21 through early November.
According to the warrant, investigators were looking for records, information and communications related to the office’s:
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- Login credentials and accounts.
- Voter registration records and information, including protected voters’ information.
- The transfer, sharing or dissemination of voter registration records and information, including protected voters’ information.
- Unauthorized access to the office’s website and computer systems.
- Attempts or threats to damage computer systems.
The Maricopa County IT security staff identified the intrusion, according to Megan Gilbertson, spokesperson for the office.
• On Nov 5th, the FBI served a warrant on the Fountain Hills residence of a 56-year-old IT expert named Elliot Kerwin.
•FBI left with eight hard drives, three computers & USB sticks.
• Maricopa County Recorder's office confirmed voter data was stolen.https://t.co/2Io31rdMF8— Praying Medic (@prayingmedic) December 6, 2020
• The FBI confirmed to Forbes they served a warrant.
• FBI spokesperson said they could neither confirm nor deny any investigation.
• The DOJ in Arizona refused to comment.
• The full scope of the investigation and the breach of Maricopa County’s website remains under seal.— Praying Medic (@prayingmedic) December 6, 2020
This is probably why the Maricopa County Board of supervisors requested an independent audit of Dominion machines.https://t.co/GCysIJG2y2
— Praying Medic (@prayingmedic) December 6, 2020
Exclusive: The FBI Is Investigating Voter Data Theft In This Key 2020 Election Battleground
By: Thomas Brewster, Forbes, December 7, 2020:
On the morning of November 5, as the 2020 election hung in the balance, Arizona federal agents raided a two-story house in Fountain Hills, Maricopa County, a county that had become a key battleground in the presidential race. The agents were looking for evidence of a cyberattack on an unnamed organization and stolen voter data. They left with eight hard drives, three computers and a bag of USB sticks. The resident of the property, a 56-year-old IT expert named Elliot Kerwin, was served the warrant. He is not yet facing charges and was unreachable for comment at the time of publication. There is no indication that anything other than voters’ information, which can be acquired for a few hundred dollars in Arizona counties, was taken from the affected office.
The warrant, discovered by Forbes this week, reveals investigators have been looking into a computer intrusion at an unnamed “victim office,” which occurred from October 21 to November 4. At the Kerwin residence, they were looking for any evidence within the seized computers that showed they’d been used to access the IT network at the office, as well as “protected voters’ information” and any indication that it had been disseminated to other people.
Of the 15 county recorder’s offices contacted by Forbes about the investigation, only one, Maricopa County, confirmed voter data had been stolen, noting that a federal investigation was under way. The Maricopa County Recorder’s office, which is just 30 minutes’ drive south from Kerwin’s home, did not confirm whether or not the investigation was the same as that referred to in the search warrant.
He has held Senior IT positions previously in other states. Got himself into a bit of trouble with a phishing scam and stepped down to avoid charges. pic.twitter.com/EYi1NJIQN9
— SCPatriot (@SCPatriotSC) December 7, 2020
So he steps down and sets up his own IT services company in MERCER Wisconsin, closes that company in 2019 and then decides to get into the cybersecurity side of the business under Desert Oasis Tactical, during in a contentious election cycle? In Maricopa County? pic.twitter.com/brsboRebWJ
— SCPatriot (@SCPatriotSC) December 7, 2020
“Analysis by the Maricopa County Recorder’s Office IT Security indicates an unauthorized individual gathered publicly accessible voter information from our website,” a spokesperson said. They didn’t specify what voter information and declined to comment any further on the nature of the attack. The data trove could be significant; there were more than 2.5 million registered voters in the county for the 2020 election.
“Additional security controls were put in place to mitigate against this activity occurring in the future. The Maricopa County Recorder’s Office has reported this to proper authorities and law enforcement personnel, and there is an ongoing investigation by the FBI at this time. The FBI informed our office today they served a warrant,” the spokesperson added.
The Justice Department in Arizona told Forbes it couldn’t comment. An FBI spokesperson said they could neither confirm nor deny any investigation. The full scope of the investigation and the breach of Maricopa County’s website remains under seal.
The investigation is the only known probe by the FBI into a cyberattack on an electoral body responsible for handling the 2020 election. But there is no evidence to suggest that any theft of voter registration data could’ve had an impact on the election in Arizona. It’s possible to simply buy voter data from Maricopa County, costing as little as $328 for 1 million or more records. The systems used to count votes in Maricopa County were not affected. And despite fears of foreign interference and voter fraud, the DHS’ Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has stated the 2020 election was the “most secure in American history.”
Arizona and Maricopa County are at the center of an attempt by the Republican Party to challenge the results of the presidential election. The county was deemed crucial to the presidential race, dubbed the “Arizona county that could decide the future of Trump.” Maricopa County and the state of Arizona ended up being taken by the Democrats, helping President-elect Joe Biden on his way to the White House. Despite Biden’s 45,000-vote lead in Maricopa County in November, it remains a contested region, as Arizona’s Republican Party Chairwoman Kelli Ward filed a lawsuit looking for irregularities among 28,000 ballots that were duplicated as voters’ earlier ballots were damaged or couldn’t be tabulated, as reported by the AP this week.
So far, the Trump Administration’s attempts to overturn election counts have not gone in the president’s favor. Most significantly, in November, a lawsuit seeking to block Pennsylvania from certifying its election results was dismissed, while a recount that cost Trump’s legal team $5 million in Wisconsin only extended Biden’s lead.
Who is Elliot Kerwin?
Attempts to contact Kerwin, the Phoenix resident, over mobile, his Signal encrypted messenger account and his Gmail were unsuccessful.
It’s not the first time Kerwin has been investigated by police. According to a police report obtained by Forbes, on April 1, 2011, when he was the IT administrator for the City of Ashland, Wisconsin, he was questioned by police regarding spoof emails, sent out just ahead of a local election.
Initially, Kerwin denied any knowledge of who sent the emails, assisting police in looking through local government servers to determine the author of the emails. He eventually admitted to sending emails from the City of Ashland’s own IT systems, posing as former councilor James Melin and city resident Zygmund Jablonski Jr. The emails, handed to Forbes by the now-defunct local publication the Ashland Current, made little sense and were written in all caps, but referenced the election. At the time, Jablonski said he was concerned the faked emails were trying to “put some type of spin on the election.”
No charges were filed as it was deemed that the City of Ashland had dealt with the matter, though an Ashland Current report indicated Kerwin had resigned in June of that year. According to the police report, Kerwin said he sent the emails as an April Fools’ joke and as satire. An officer told him that if it was a joke, “It would’ve been best to tell us then rather than allow us to prepare subpoenas and drag the matter out,” according to the police report.
Since leaving local government, Kerwin has been running his own IT companies, one named Loon-a-Tech, where he promised “assistance with viruses, malware and security software.” According to his online CV, that Mercer, Wisconsin, business was closed in mid-2019, when he set up Desert Oasis Technology in Fountain Hills, Arizona, just northeast of metropolitan Phoenix. He also set up a sister company, Desert Oasis Tactical, which lists four specialties: weapon, warrior, defense and research. Amongst his services at his tech company are “cyber forensics” and “surveillance.”
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After review, the FBI reported the only data that could be retrieved referred to a wedding and yoga classes.
FBI?
That evidence will never be seen again.
Its hilarious having the criminals in the various agencies who are currently carrying out a COUP against the United States also running around “investigating” it… that must be the new word for “cleaning up the evidence”?
im afraid if we dont do matial law and military tribunals for these criminals in our government, all is lost.
It won’t be seen again, and we are headed closer to war every day.
It will be placed with Hunter’s laptop……all….ALL….never to be seen again.
The voting machine used in our elections can be set by an operator to assign a value less than or greater than 1 to any vote. The quantity of votes that can be assigned a value other than 1 is also operator-controlled. These machines were literally designed to simplify voter fraud.
The Federal govt needed to establish tamper-proof specifications for voting machines. To receive approval for use in state elections, a machine needed to pass an FDA-style inspection to verify it was tamper-proof. That never happened.
What did happen is the Democratic Party, fearing erosion in critical Black/Hispanic support, particularly in key urban counties, established a relationship with voting machine suppliers like Dominion, that ensured they could rig the final vote tally in any county they controlled.
Good luck trying to get the toothpaste back in the tube. Welcome to Venezuela North.
It’s like trying to undo scrambled eggs. Even still, we do have the ability to recover some of it in a fragmented way. There is always something left. It just depends on what you can salvage and make sense of it.
They just wanted Trump out. They were angry at blacks and Hispanics voting for Trump but more importantly they wanted Trump out. He was not carrying on their agenda as ALL other Presidents had done since Reagan. With the exception of amnesty, he was our last decent President.
The systems used to count votes in Maricopa County were not affected. And despite fears of foreign interference and voter fraud, the DHS’ Cyber security and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has stated the 2020 election was the “most secure in American history.”
Look how quickly they can move on this guy!
This will be of no help to the REAL voter fraud going on. If they can still state there is no fraud, they are corrupt.
Yeah. LOL. For years we heard Russia, and the election was fixed, but now it’s strictly legit?
What a joke.
They are investigating nothing. They are collecting evidence to claim there was nothing there then destroy it and aid the cover up.
Of course there was massive fraud.
You bet. No way Pedophile Joe gets in without fraud.
You also mean accuser
President Trump for crimes that he, Joe Biden, is likely guilty of coming before the People of the US without clean hands. Compromised and tarnished in the Ukraine, China, probably the Mid-East.
All of the evidence will be sent to Hillary for destruction and in two years if you ask about it you will be publicly destroyed…the Law is nothing now, Democrats Rule..
Then we can get ready to blow up the planet.
FBI are working for the bad guys. Time to disband that outfit. Sidney Powell said the only government electronic footprints she saw were in with the bad guys electronic footprints.
I don’t trust those guys. Barr said the feebs looked into election fraud, and found nothing. So they’re now raiding evidence? For whom?
This raid pre dates the Barr´s allegation of no voter fraud.
It’s past time to illuminate the fraud and prove that we didn’t turn blue and moronic!
Federal Bureau of Insurection
Federal Bureau of Insurection
And where is Hunter’s laptop? This will go the same way. Sat on and nothing happens. The FBI is a criminal organization. Heck the Mafia is far more honest. At least with them you know the rules they play by. And sadly the FBI’s behavior taints ALL law enforcement. For example if you get busted for drugs you can bet the DEA will take the case away from the local PD or Sheriff. And bingo you are now in the corrupt federal system. Gives every reason to avoid dealing with even the local non federal cops.
One problem in Our Country is no one wants to file charges through the police. They want to sweep it under the rug and get rid of the liar, criminal and send them elsewhere to continue creating havoc. In this case it appears he went from local to one cog in the wheel of the National level. How many Kerwins were operating on November 03/04, 2020?
Expect this data to be placed in DOJ investigator, John Durham’s possession, which likely means it is being buried since the DOJ, through AG Barr said he didn’t see any evidence indicating widespread election fraud.
They may bring out the hard drives showing they had been looking but this incident showed mostly someone trying to pull some kind of scam.
This is why I am so pissed off that Martha McSalley just gave in and conceded so quickly. She should have at least waited a week or so with all these shenanigans going on.
Pamela, I am glad you now provide an additional link to Parler. We now have a backup to Facebook that will enable us to gradually switch over to a real public platform. Leave Facebook as a failed public platform, that behaved like a publisher, to collapse into the dust as it drains into eventual bankruptcy. What a year will 2021 be with Trump as the President for another four years, and with the deep state and all its satanical plans being taken down in leaps and bounds! There is a God!