Looking at the 17,000+ duplicate ballots that were counted in the official results, what was the vote breakdown there?
They couldn’t know. They were evaluating the ballot envelopes and found duplicate submissions. The County declared both sets of the envelope signatures valid (usually received a week apart), took the ballots out and mixed them with all the other ballots before counting them.
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I’ve been trying to understand this all day as to why they couldn’t tell the vote breakdown.
So what you’re saying is that there are duplicate envelopes and not ballots?
If that’s the case then I understand.
Yes, there are multiple ballot return envelopes submitted by the same addressees - roughly 17k double submissions.
https://www.azsenaterepublicans.com/echomail-report.
See pages 9-10
Page 13 shows how the numbers don’t match.
Because tabulation is a distinct process from opening the envelopes. The ballots are fungible in terms of provenance once they've been separated from the envelopes.