Posted on 11/08/2024 5:43:50 PM PST by TigerClaws
It’s taking far longer than expected in multiple counties across Arizona to count ballots and report election results.
The delay means numerous congressional, statewide, and local races have yet to be called, including a U.S. Senate contest and races that would help determine the balance of power in the U.S. House. Voter advocates are warning that voters won’t have enough time to fix any problems with their ballots if the counting goes on too long.
This article was originally published by Votebeat, a nonprofit news organization covering local election administration and voting access. An updated statewide number of uncounted ballots wasn’t available Friday morning, but as of Thursday night, four of 15 counties — Cochise, Pima, Yavapai, and Yuma — still had more than 25% of their ballots left to count.
Maricopa County, the state’s largest county, still had about 20% uncounted as of Thursday night, including 274,000 mail ballots that had not yet gone through even the first step of verifying the voter signature on the outside of the envelope.
The long, two-page ballot that many counties had in this election was to blame for delays in at least some instances. For example, in Maricopa County and Pima County, it’s taking longer to remove mail ballots from their envelopes and unfold and inspect them.
In other counties, the problems vary. Cochise County is experiencing a mechanical problem with its tabulators that’s causing them to operate slowly, and still had 57% of its ballots to count as of Thursday night. The county was able to count only a few ballots at a time over the last day, though the tabulator is still counting correctly, according to JP Martin, a spokesperson for the Secretary of State’s Office. A technician from the tabulator company arrived Thursday night to help, and the company may need to send a new machine, Martin said.
In both Yavapai and Pinal counties, tabulating polling place results from Election Day took much longer than expected because of unclear voter marks that had to be sorted out before results from the polling place could be reported. Pinal took 24 hours to count just the polling place ballots, and Yavapai took until Friday morning.
“I know people are clamoring for results, but we are doing the best we can here,” Yavapai County Elections Director Laurin Custis said Friday morning.
Yuma County still had 40% of its ballots to count as of Thursday night, according to the Secretary of State’s Office. It’s unclear why.
A coalition of dozens of voting rights groups are concerned that, because of the delays, voters will not have enough time to respond to counties that flagged a mismatched or missing signature on their mail ballots. Under state law, the deadline for fixing those issues is Sunday, while counties had not yet reviewed hundreds of thousands of voter signatures on ballots across the state as of Thursday night.
The groups wrote in a news release Friday afternoon that they support extending the deadline. They said all voters should have five days from when they are notified of a problem to fix their signature.
“We support community groups and candidates of any party fighting for voters’ rights to have adequate time to respond to any questions about the signatures on their ballots to ensure their votes are counted,” the groups wrote in a statement.
Also watching California which is taking forever (cheating?) for the House seats:
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-elections/california-house-results
Another “perfect storm” of “unexpected events.”
These public officials had months—no years—to plan for this.
Apparently that was not enough time.
They needed centuries.
Here we go again.
All the people involved in the counting should be arrested and charged with Election Interference
Unexpected!
The events may be unexpected, but which party will benefit from them is perfectly deterministic and predictable.
“Unexpected”
Same kinda BS they pulled in 22 which is how they screwed Lake before. So sick of this
What a bunch of horseshit!
“Unexpected”
Same kinda BS they pulled in 22 which is how they screwed Lake before. So sick of this
This is how we know we won’t retain the house. They’re already cheating.
Arizona seems to hold onto the title of worst managed election of all 50 States by far. You would think that because of all the problems of 4 years ago that they would have found a fix by now. Instead, it’s worse.
Did you really think the swamp was gonna let Trump win the lower house? Remember newscum came out saying they will do whatever it takes to block Trump. This is their way of stopping him by giving the house to Pelosi and the rats. I’m so sick of this shit I really am.
Where are the lawyers and Lara Trump
Send Ariz. to Mexico.
This is not mismanaged this is intentional
The good news is Charlie Kirk has 100+ staff in Arizona monitoring the counting of the remaining ballots. We’re in good hands.
I want the Good people to win, and I want the Bad people to screw up their fraud and be caught.
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