As Maricopa County investigates what exactly caused machines to reject thousands of voters’ ballots on Election Day, an analysis of technical evidence found that local officials may have pushed the county’s ballot printers past their limits. Read more»
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Officials in Maricopa and Mohave counties on Monday certified their results for the Nov. 8 election, but Cochise County officials refused to certify its results by the legal deadline, voting to delay until Friday. Read more»
After widespread printer problems in Maricopa County on Election Day, the ballots of 146 county voters - from voters who checked in at an initial vote center and received a ballot but left, potentially without casting that ballot - are in limbo, and potentially will not be counted. Read more»
Yelling, interruptions and scathing criticisms were hurled at the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors Wednesday, during the board’s first meeting following a midterm election whose administration has been called into question locally and across the country. Read more»
Arizona Governor-elect Democrat Katie Hobbs gave give a victory speech Tuesday after a contentious race that she was not favored to win - though her opponent Republican Kari Lake had not conceded the race and continued to criticize elections in Maricopa County.
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Republicans in Arizona and elsewhere have insisted the days-long tabulation of early ballots is a new phenomenon that is aimed at undercutting faith in the elections and harming GOP candidates - but final election results have never been available on Election Night in Arizona. Read more»
Maricopa County saw widespread problems tabulating ballots on Election Day, and while all voters were still able to cast ballots, answers are still emerging about what happened. Read more»
Republican commentators and candidates are espousing theories about elections in Maricopa County, unsupported by facts, that have spread like wildfire on social media - and the county is attempting to quell them. Read more»
Two main differences explain why Florida posted the majority of election results by the end of Election Night and Arizona didn't: Florida didn’t have an avalanche of mail ballots on Election Day and Florida counties has in-house scanners that process the ballot envelopes. Read more»
An Election Day glitch in machines called tabulators disrupted voting at about 60 vote centers in Arizona’s most populous county, and while there were reports of frustrated and irritated voters, there are no accounts that anyone who wanted to vote couldn’t. Read more»
Roughly 17,000 Maricopa County voters on Tuesday were unable to watch machines tabulate their ballots on-site because of a widespread printing problem that caused the on-site machines to reject the ballots - but officials have reassured those voters that their ballots will be counted. Read more»
The machines that tabulate ballots at Maricopa County vote centers had widespread problems during much of Election Day, with about 20% of locations affected. Shortly after 2p.m., Maricopa County election officials said they had found the cause and were resolving the issue. Read more»
The Republican National Committee is suing Maricopa County over election transparency and election worker hiring practices, in what the Arizona county’s Republican recorder called “a political stunt.” Read more»
Marjorie Taylor Greene believes the government is spying on people eating cheeseburgers and when it catches them, they will feel a zap inside their bodies. Read more»
Maricopa County’s ballot tabulation system was never connected to the internet during the 2020 election and there were no routers to inspect, concluded a team of experts assembled by former Congressman John Shadegg as part of the so-called “audit” of the last presidential election. Read more»
Maricopa County Board of Supervisors Chairman Bill Gates told a national panel Wednesday he has “great concerns about the future” of election integrity in Arizona, after threats following the 2020 election and as election deniers run for Secretary of State in 2022. Read more»