To vote “early”, with the ballot turned in at an official election location, requires that a ballot has been issued to a particular registered voter. Competent election officials would check to make sure the would-be voter is legally registered, and has not already requested a mail-in ballot. They would then record the fact of the in-person ballot request, and receipt thereof, if the voter completes it and turns it in. If this was not done, there would be a danger of double-voting if the “early in-person” voters later mailed in ballots. Likewise, individuals could show up and vote again on election day.
The auditors found 74,000 more ballots were turned in and counted than were “checked out” to a voter by elections officials, and shown in the official records. These people are not buck idiots who haven’t looked at overall figures and check-in data for every type of voting.
CNN and ABC are just blowing smoke for those desperate to believe. 74,000 is not a clerical error; it’s either massive fraud or a systemic failure by election officials. If Maricopa has the data to explain this away, let’s see it.
That’s a good point. If they don’t track those activities in a central point, then a person could vote at least three times with no record until *perhaps* later. They *have* to have a system to stop that.