There is nothing wrong with this process taking a long time.
It’s not a long time. The anti-theft strategy was to have huge number of Republican voters fill out their ballot and bring it to the Dropboxes on Election Day.
Every one of those ballots have to be name checked, address checked, and perhaps the law in Arizona requires a signature check. That process could not begin until the polls closed on Election Day, because the voters did not bring the ballot until then. A lot of screening has to take place starting at that time.
That has to happen before you can even start the count. This delay is a good thing. It’s not time to cheat. It’s time that prevents cheating.
Yes, it does. With workers from both parties checking each ballot together.
But since Hobbs is running the system and has not recused herself, people will be reasonably suspicious. What if she is honest and doing the proper procedures? That’s possible but it should not be that someone with a conflict of interest is running the thing.
I’m not worried about the counting process. I am worried that a lot of McCain Republicans - and there are a lot of them still in Maricopa - have voted for the Democrat to block anyone associated with Trump. Those would be legal votes. Valid votes. But votes by McCain Republicans, genuine GOP votes, against Kari and even more so against Blake because of their emotional hatred for Trump.
That is worrying me a lot. The counting? Not at all.
IT also gives the cheaters time to create new ‘ballots’.