Why are there plenty of pens but they should only be used until the NEEDED markers are obtained? Why is there something called a "Ballot Pen" but not a "Ballot Marker."
Found this.The first paragraph is very interesting.
What happens if ink bleeds through ballot in Arizona?
According to the state’s electionsprocedures manual, if a felt-tip pen mark does bleed through, the ballot will likely get sent for duplication. An election worker will fill out a new ballot using the voter’s choices that will be read properly by tabulation machines.
The manual states that the process is overseen by a Ballot Duplication Board comprised of at least two members of different political parties.
“The Ballot Duplication Board duplicates ballots that cannot be read by the tabulation machine but on which the voter has nonetheless clearly indicated their intent to vote on a particular race or ballot measure,” the 2019 manual states.
“This may include crumpled or otherwise damaged ballots, ballots with smudged ink, or ballots which are marked in the wrong color of ink or with a device that cannot be read by the tabulation machine. If voter intent is not clear and Ballot Duplication Board members do not agree on the voter intent for a particular ballot, that ballot should be referred to the Snag Board or officer in charge of elections for resolution prior to duplicating the ballot.”
Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs told Fox 10 that ballots marked with Sharpie pens would be counted.
“A trained, employed polling place worker is not going to give you a pen to mark your ballot that is going to invalidate your ballot,” Hobbs said.
Hobbs also took to Twitter to clarify that voters who received an early ballot but chose to vote in-person instead will see their early ballot status as “Canceled” on their ballot status update. She said, “this is because the early ballot is canceled so the ballot cast-in person can be counted.”
U.S. Rep. Paul Gosar, R-Ariz., said he asked the Arizona Attorney General’s Office to look into the concerns and the office wrote a letter to the Maricopa County Elections Department about the situation.
Think...The Dems scan thousands of ballots marked with a sharpie marker, yielding blank votes for president, yet there is a count total on the machine for the number of ballots scanned.
Then once the number of ballots cast is on the machine, thousands of votes can be added for Biden, with no one detecting the difference in the total count of ballots cast.
That is, unless you actually hand count and tally t he votes. In which case the votes for Trump would go up by the thousands of sharpie ballots, while the vote tally for Biden would decrease by that same number.
At that point the added votes for Biden would stick out like a sore thumb.
The down ticket would also be affected, but all eyes are on the Presidential race.
In their eyes it wouldn't matter, since people who would vote for Trump wouldn't be voting for the Dem candidate for House, Senate, or dog catcher. So in their eyes, these votes don't matter, and the Dem candidate will win anyway.