Updated 5/22/2021 7:22 PM The technology company Cyber Ninjas was tasked last month with conducting an audit of election results in Maricopa County, Arizona, ordered by Republican state senators. On May 15, former President Donald Trump weighed in.
That's false, according to PolitiFact.com. There is no evidence any databases were illegally deleted. Three days before Trump's statement, a post on the audit's Twitter account said the county "deleted a directory full of election databases from the 2020 election cycle days before the election equipment was delivered to the audit." The Maricopa County Elections Department disputed that claim in a memo, stating, "the original database folder on the 'EMSPrimary' server was not deleted or otherwise tampered with during packaging and delivery."