"Both staffers who have died, a man and a woman, were in their 50’s. Those who were hospitalized were as young as their late 30’s, according to Hopes, causing him concern that we could be seeing one of the stronger variants in these cases.
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One staffer in the department who worked closely with the other five and didn’t contract the coronavirus was vaccinated. ..."
https://www.bradenton.com/news/coronavirus/article252212853.html
Would appreciate knowing more about County Administrator Scott Hopes and the general area from any Florida patriots.
This of course is solid evidence for the pro-vaxx crowd so good to have it on our radar.
I do find it interesting that the other articles on GAW on Manatee FL are related to phosphorus poisoning of the local water supply though..
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/florida-state-of-emergency-wastewater-leak-verge-catastrophe/
I hadn't seen this discussed anywhere but I believe it's critical to know how the Maricopa board is responding to the claims leaked by auditors and which of their counterpoints are valid/misleading/invalid.
My understanding of what they argue:
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The deleted files were part of the shutdown process of SQL Server or auditors did something fraudulent. (pg. 2)
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They make a strangely specific counterpoint here also on pg. 2: "At no point was any data deleted when shutting down the server and packing up the equipment." Which is great, but was anything deleted before shutting down the server and packing up the equipment??
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They claim after having been asked for chain of custody procedures that it was given to Ken Bennett. (pg. 4) I suspect what was being asked for was chain of custody procedure before the handoff, though I'm not sure.
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They argue that discrepancy totals (pgs. 7-9) are off because when ballots identified as being unable to be read by the tabulators (through whatever sort of damage), they were taken out and sent to the Ballot Duplication Board.
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They say that Dominion's password are "proprietary" and that Dominion will only provide them only to entities accredited by U.S. Elections Assistance Commission. (pg. 10)
I'm in no way qualified to debunk, rebunk, or even plain old fashioned missionary bunk any of this. Frankly much of the info we have at this point is just hearsay from either side. But I'd be pleased to have pedes in the know comment on this response.