Posted on 10/25/2024 9:16:42 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Officials in Arizona’s most populous county warned on Oct. 22 that it may take between 10 and 13 days to tabulate the results of the Nov. 5 election.
County officials are asking “for the community’s patience,” Maricopa County Deputy Elections Director Jennifer Liewer said in a press conference on Oct. 22.
“This year, we do expect that it will take between 10 and 13 days to complete tabulation of all of the ballots that come in,” she said.
“We want to make sure that this is a secure process, but we also want to make sure that it is an accurate process.”
Assistant Maricopa County Manager Zach Schira said at the press conference, “If I have one message for voters here today, it is this: that the longer ballots and higher interest in this 2024 general election will create longer lines on Election Day, and that’s okay.”
Schira said that if people want to avoid the long lines, they are advised to vote by mail or early in person.
Maricopa County Supervisor Bill Gates said the tabulation may take so long because the ballot is two pages, there are dozens of contests per ballot, and there is heightened interest in the presidential election. He said more than 2.1 million Maricopa voters are expected to cast their ballot for the Nov. 5 contest, noting that 400,000 people so far have voted.
The “top message for voters” on Oct. 22 is “if you want to save time and avoid lines, vote early,” the county wrote on social media platform X. Voters have until Oct. 25 to request an early ballot, it noted.
Early voting data compiled by the University of Florida show that Republicans have a 38,000-vote advantage in terms of early voting in Arizona. Only mail-in ballots have been returned so far, but the data show that 41.9 percent of early ballots have been submitted by Republicans, compared with 36.3 by Democrats. Independent or third-party voters make up about 21.8 percent of the total.
Arizona, considered a battleground state, is again expected to be a close race during the 2024 election. State election officials in 2020 certified the race in Arizona for Joe Biden over President Donald Trump by a margin of about 11,000 votes.
In the aftermath of the 2020 contest, Trump and other Republicans alleged that Arizona’s election was marred by voter fraud, sparking a number of lawsuits against Arizona and Maricopa County officials that were all ultimately dismissed.
For that election, county officials certified the results 17 days after Election Day, according to a statement issued on Nov. 20, 2020. A significant number of voters cast ballots early in person or by mail in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic and associated stay-at-home and lockdown orders and rules.
Maricopa County, which encompasses the city of Phoenix, is by far the most populous area in Arizona. As of March, it had more than 4.5 million residents, which is more than half the state’s entire population.
Trump is expected to campaign in Arizona on Oct. 24, holding a rally at Arizona State University’s arena in Tempe. Harris visited Arizona near the U.S.–Mexico border in late September.
Before his trip to Arizona, Trump is scheduled to headline a rally in Duluth, Georgia, on Oct. 23 with guests Tucker Carlson and Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Vice President Kamala Harris is also focusing on battleground states and will be traveling to the outskirts of Philadelphia to participate in a live CNN town hall event with undecided voters from Pennsylvania. An interview she recorded with Telemundo, a Spanish language network, on Oct. 22 is also due to air.
Reuters contributed to this report.
Replace them with chimps—bet they could do the counting faster and more accurately.
They have to make sure Harris wins.
Why only two weeks?
I’m surprised they don’t just announce the results right now and be done with it.
This year, we do expect that it will take between 10 and 13 days to complete fabrication of all of the ballots that we forge ...
Those who run third-world country elections are laughing at us.
It could take us up to two weeks decide if fixing the election will make a difference.
What a crock.!
So many “slow” Californians have moved into Arizona to turn the joint blue during elections that the average I.Q. there has fallen 30 points. I miss Arizona but I’m glad I left that state. It’s been turned into another Rocky Mountain High Colorado since the “provisional” voters there legalized “medicinal marijuana” and everyone started staying high all the time.
The limit the number of polling places in order to create long lines and discourage people from voting in person. Criminals. All of them.
TRANSLATION: It will take two weeks because we have to see how many fraudulent ballots we have to manufacture for Kommie-La.
Arizona should be told to just forget it. They’re not ready for primetime anymore since the Dung Beetle Party took over.
Hopefully, the Arizona electoral votes will not be necessary for Trump to win. If that’s the case, they’ll probably have the results in a day.
What a pant load.
the best result would be the election is over and done with while az is still trying to “count” ballots
If AZ doesn’t report accurate numbers the next day, someone is cheating.
India has a billion people and get the votes tabulated the next day.
5.56mm
Just wondering does anyone take this announcement seriously.
It’s obviously corruption.
There are a lot of cities and metropolitan areas larger than Maricopa County.
But if, in the end, AZ’s electoral votes don’t matter, they’ll have the results next day.
Arizona has the worst general signage & event organizing of any state I've ever lived in or visited. It's unsurprising they're unable to run a successful election.
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