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I have always been suspicious of what Runbeck does in Arizona. They basically run the elections for Maricopa County which can basically control the state if they are corrupt enough and they are.
Above is new machinery to speed up the tabulating of ballots used at Runbeck in Arizona. This piece lauds the fact that Runbeck can now run ballots in seconds while hand counting takes days.
www.votebeat.org/arizona/2024/04/22/runbeck-election-services-scans-maricopa-county-arizona-ballots/
An obvious problem with this piece is that no one has verified that these ballots are even real!!!. They could be ballots stuffed in dozens of places then delivered to Runbeck to run and no one would be the wiser!!
And to think that would not happen in Maricopa County is to be super naive.
The real question that should be asked is “why is a 3rd-party contractor, that PRINTS official election ballots, tabulating ballots in an off-site location?”
Away from designated and secure counting locations?
Are those boxes behind the workers, sitting on the shelves, full of pre-printed ballots; accessible for “true-up” purposes?
There was a lot of news about Runbeck in the aftermath of the 2020 election. They print ballots as well as count, and apparent “fill them out” as well.