The issues with the missing voting machine passwords and the routers are in addition to the stunning development that the auditors are not even permitted to do signature checks, according to a legal settlement with the Arizona Democratic Party. “The sheriff’s department and the Maricopa County tabulation and election center aren’t even in the same building,” he added. “I don’t know why the routers in a tabulation and election center have anything to do with the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office or numerous federal agencies,” Bennett said. “But we were informed that redaction did not eliminate the risk.”īennett told Just the News that the state Senate’s subpoena requested “access or control of all routers and tabulators … used in connection with the administration of the 2020 election” in addition to “the public IP of the. “We had previously believed that the risk would be eliminated by redacting the law enforcement data on the routers and not producing it,” Bennett’s letter states. Senator Vitelli’s bill faces further votes in the House and Senate.“A Monday letter sent from the Maricopa County Attorney’s Office to Ken Bennett, the former Arizona secretary of state and the liaison between the state Senate and the auditors, said the county had elected not to turn over ‘several routers’ requested by the legislature due to an alleged ‘significant security risk to law enforcement data utilized by the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office as well as numerous federal agencies’,” the report continued. As of 2021, BIW supports 300 Maine-based suppliers and accounts for 12 percent of Maine’s total manufacturing workforce. Within Sagadahoc County, 605 shipbuilders live in Bath, 289 in Topsham, 206 in Richmond, 160 in Bowdoin and 119 in West Bath.
BIW is the fourth-largest private employer in Maine, and it employs Mainers from all 16 counties, including 1,903 residents of Sagadahoc County. Over the next five years, BIW plans to hire 600 to 800 additional employees each year. BIW has seven facilities in the Bath area and employs nearly 7,000 shipbuilders. Vitelli worked with the City of Bath and the area’s largest employer, Bath Iron Works, on this legislation. A BIW vessel was the first to reach the site to start rescuing people. In July 2021, The Mary E, a historic schooner owned by the Maine Maritime Museum in Bath, capsized on the Kennebec River Friday with 15 passengers and three crew members on board. Without the tanks, responders would not have been able to enter the building without putting themselves at serious risk. BIW had specialized oxygen tanks which allowed its EMS personnel to go into the building when the City of Bath lacked such equipment. The pre-K through second grade students and staff relocated to a current temporary site for this school year. Over 50 percent of the school building was deemed a total loss. In June 2022, two fires damaged Dike Newell Elementary School. I’m grateful to my colleagues in the Senate for their strong, bipartisan support of this bill.”īIW responded to two separate local emergencies in the last two years. “When someone is in a position to help in a time of crisis, our laws ought to make way for them to do so. And ultimately, that’s what this bill is about - being a good neighbor,” said Sen. Its workers are our friends, families and neighbors. “BIW is more than just a major employer in Maine. This bill makes it easier for Bath Iron Works to work closely with the City of Bath and to coordinate mutual aid responses for the benefit of all parties in emergencies.
EMERGENCY SENATE SESSION FULL
Eloise Vitelli, D-Arrowsic, LD 783, “An Act to Protect Certain Private Emergency Services Personnel from Liability Under the Maine Tort Claims Act,” won full bipartisan support. AUGUSTA – On Tuesday, the Maine House and Senate voted unanimously to support a bill sponsored by Sen.
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