I can think of no legitimate reason why [public] records from that critical period of time should have been deleted.

Logan Lamb, a security expert, said of a Georgia elections server that had been wiped clean after being exposed to the open Internet for at least six months during 2016. Election integrity activists subsequently filed a lawsuit for the state of Georgia to revamp their “unreliable and negligently run election system.” (AP News — January 16, 2020)