“On election day, 106,588k voters showed up to vote in person in Maricopa County... 80.0% who voted in person selected a Republican Party ballot. Only 20% used the Democrat ballot.
Link below says 245,000 voted in-person in Maricopa on election day, so I’m doubting numbers in the GP story and what their sources are.
Anyway, there were about 1.5 million votes in the U.S. Senate race in Maricopa, so in-person election day votes were just a fraction of the totals whether 106,000 or 245,000.
I’ve read that article twice and think they are putting two different elections together to create a story and it’s not worded well.
The 80% number I think is from the primary. There should be no democrat or republican ballots for the general. So they are extrapolating that to make the argument that 80% of the primary election day voters were republican, so that number should hold for the general. That is not necessarily a true statement. You may have had 80% republicans voting on election day in the primaries. But if their candidate didn’t win, how many of those voters either didn’t vote in the general or split ticket? It is an invalid argument.