INTERTRON: FTA:
On May 17, "Knisley sent an email to the Information Management Department requesting that the cameras in the Election Department be turned off." Knisley's email "did not provide any basis for the request," but the cameras were turned off that same day, the ruling said. Knisley also "requested that the cameras be 'turned back on' on August 1st."

On Sunday, May 23, Wood went into the secured election-system area with an electronic access card he was provided [by Peters]. On that day, he "copied the hard drives of the voting equipment computers before the 'trusted build.'" The confidential passwords were photographed during the trusted build meeting, and Wood copied the hard drives of the voting equipment computers a second time after the meeting.

After the meeting, "State Department staff returned to Mesa County and discovered that the server computer had two incorrect settings" that "could result in a security vulnerability." Specifically, the secure-boot setting was disabled, and an option to boot from an optical drive was enabled, the ruling said.

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holy shiat, they literally configured the voting machines so that an attacker could waltz in during voting, boot off a CD to run whatever fake election software they wanted for the rest of the election, then disabled the security feature that would ordinarily block that, too -- and they did it all after conspiring to hide the evidence from cameras, which they could only do by abusing their power

how are they not being thrown in jail for criminal conspiracy to commit election fraud?  abuse of power?  violating the CFAA?