Case 1:17-cv-02989-AT Document 579 Filed 08/15/19 Page 29 of 153 86.) These individual contractors built all of the ballots for all counties for the November 2018 general election, and they built the ballots for 98 out of 159 counties for the May 2018 primary election. (Id. at 174.) Once the State collects all of the information from the counties relating to candidates, jurisdictions, and races involved in the election, the three individual contractors construct the initial GEMS databases and initial layout of the data set. (Id. at 162.) The databases are then delivered to the SOS on an encrypted CD or locked USB drive. (Id. at 163.) Barnes “moves the files from their thumb drives into” the State’s GEMS file system by downloading the data on the public computer and then onto his lockable reformatted USB drive that he “uses for moving the files back and forth” from his public and private/air-gapped computers. (Id. at 164-65.) The GEMS server holds the ballot file, which is then placed into a review folder on the server for inspection. (Id. at 165.) Barnes and his staff perform a “line-by-line review of the data set to make sure that the right candidates are listed in the right order, names are spelled properly, [and] that the races are in the proper order.” (Id. at 163.) If any corrections are needed on the contractor-built GEMS ballot databases, they are not returned to the contractors. Instead, Barnes or his staff make those corrections. (Id. at 163-64.) Barnes described this review/correction process as follows: A. Once the file is placed into a review folder on the server, then a member of my team – we have a check sheet that is itemized of what we’re looking at that is within a specific database within specific elections. They will then download from the server a copy of that file. And it is saved to their local private CPU. The local – private 29