Couldn't agree more. Hurricane flattened counties in FL's Panhandle counted their votes on time, so what's AZ's excuse? What about Palm Beach and Broward Counties. It's either democrat incompetence or fraud and corruption. My vote is for all the above.
My understanding is that in AZ, 75% of the ballots are mail-in, and each signature has to be manually checked. That's a heck of a job, and itself possibly subject to the bias of the persons doing the checking, although I suppose spot checks on them by a panel of 1/2 Pub, 1/2 Dem supervisors would help keep things honest.
That said, my signature varies lot from check to check, document to document, etc. I suppose a real handwriting expert could sort such things out, but with (I would think) many thousands of ballots' signatures to be rechecked, that would take even more time.
Then you have this whole issue of "volunteers" going out and "helping" voters with their mail in ballots. I think that is likely a much bigger concern than actual ballot fabrication or modification: I'd guess that out of 2 million plus votes total, maybe several thousand could be "fake", but the disparity between the Governor's race and the Senate race in AZ is pretty hard to attribute solely to that sort of fraud. Not-so-secret mail-in ballots would seem to me to be the larger problem.
I don't know how this process can be tightened up. Ideas, anyone?