I'm not a techie, but I suspect the Senate made legal demand for the routers for two reasons:
It would be nice to have them, for the complete picture, but the physical routers are not crucial to proving the crime.
Good chance the county board would refuse to turn them over. Why? Only one reason explains why: withholding evidence of a crime. Withholding evidence of a crime is also a crime.
By making the demand, either they get additional evidence of the crime (even though other evidence already proves it), or they allow the criminal co-conspirators on the board to commit an additional crime.
Either way, the Senate has a no-lose position by making the demand. This agreement also has the county board dropping their bogus lawsuit, which would only waste time and money anyway.
One thing nobody is talking about: The Maricopa County board CAVED when the AG withheld money to their board, and not one second before.
The only question left at this point: Is the appointed Special Master going to provide for a real investigation, or will he also become a criminal co-conspirator?
The legal angle sounds logical. As this was a forensic audit afterall. If the machines were connected to the local network LAN (also maybe mobile WAN but thats another issue) then if you want to forensically trace all aspects of the election the network equipment used needs to be inspected. Wires, routers, switches, wireless repeaters, firewalls.
Anything and everything to see if there was an intrusion of any kind that would affect that network the machines were connected to.
I'm not a techie, but I suspect the Senate made legal demand for the routers for two reasons:
It would be nice to have them, for the complete picture, but the physical routers are not crucial to proving the crime.
Good chance the county board would refuse to turn them over. Why? Only one reason explains why: withholding evidence of a crime. Withholding evidence of a crime is also a crime.
By making the demand, either they get additional evidence of the crime (even though other evidence already proves it), or they allow the criminal co-conspirators on the board to commit an additional crime.
Either way, the Senate has a no-lose position by making the demand. This agreement also has the county board dropping their bogus lawsuit, which would only waste time and money anyway.
One thing nobody is talking about: The Maricopa County board CAVED when the AG withheld money to their board, and not one second before.
The only question left at this point: Is the appointed Special Master going to provide for a real investigation, or will he also become a criminal co-conspirator?
Great reminder:
The legal angle sounds logical. As this was a forensic audit afterall. If the machines were connected to the local network LAN (also maybe mobile WAN but thats another issue) then if you want to forensically trace all aspects of the election the network equipment used needs to be inspected. Wires, routers, switches, wireless repeaters, firewalls.
Anything and everything to see if there was an intrusion of any kind that would affect that network the machines were connected to.