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Not if they were careful enough to overwrite the free disk space with more data.

• idibidiart 9y ago
  But then that would incriminate them even more! right? because it's not just "We erased it to make room for new data" ... This is in the realm of obstruction of justice.
  • neuronexmachina 9y ago
    They could claim the wipe was to protect voter privacy though, in which case one would expect them to make the data unrecoverable.
  • idibidiart 9y ago
    "They could claim the wipe was to protect voter privacy though, in which case one would expect them to make the data unrecoverable." Not after a lawsuit is filed. That's obstruction of justice regardless of what they claim. No?
    • misnome 9y ago
      Yes and no. If the "standard procedure" when they normally wipe the data as part of routine is to overwrite (Which I'd probably hope so) then the fact that they did so a) Makes it impossible to recover, and b) Doesn't make the action any more incriminating. This is entirely separate from questions of obstruction of justice.