Whether it goes downtown and gets read manually, or whether re-fed into our tabulator, they get read, OK? the poll worker explained.
Posted on 11/10/2022 8:50:34 AM PST by Red Badger
Last Updated on November 10, 2022
Election officials in Maricopa County released an update on the “printer issue” that caused multiple vote tabulators to malfunction on Election Day. One poll worker in the state’s largest county said that “nothing was working” and that voters should submit their ballots to be “counted downtown later tonight.” In total, the issue affected roughly 17,000 ballots, authorities said. On Election Day, officials announced that about 20% of tabulators at county polling sites were malfunctioning. “We have two tabulators. One of the tabulators is not working, OK? The other tabulator is taking about 75 percent successful,” a poll worker told a lengthy line of voters early Tuesday morning. “So 25 percent of them are being misread, and it could be a printer issue, and it could be a tabulator itself.”
“So when it’s misread, you have an option to put it into what’s called box three, and it gets read. Whether it goes downtown and gets read manually, or whether re-fed into our tabulator, they get read, OK? the poll worker explained. “No, we don’t wanna adjudicate,” one voter could be heard saying.
“So no one is trying to deceive anybody the poll worker said, prompting groans from the crowd. “I don’t trust going in the box, they never make it down there,” one woman said. “I’ll come back.”
Later that day, the Maricopa County Elections Command Center said in a statement that “printer settings” were responsible for the issues. In a joint statement on Wednesday, Maricopa County Board of Supervisors Chairman Bill Gates and Vice Chairman Clint Hickman released more details on the issue, saying that the scanners in question were successfully used during the 2022 primary cycle.
“The printer settings for the Ballot-On-Demand printers at Vote Centers were the same ones we used in the August Primary,” reads the statement. “The paper was the same thickness. Prior to the General Election, the Elections Department test-printed and test-tabulated hundreds of ballots without issue.”
In total, the issue impacted “less than 7 percent of Election Day voters” or “about 17,000 ballots” that were processed through the tabulators, Maricopa County election officials said.
The statement went on to note that voters were still able to vote at affected locations, although those ballots were placed in a separate box. “The good news is election administration has built-in redundancies—backup plans when things don’t go as planned. This enables all valid votes to count even if technology, on occasion, fails,” Gates said.
“Voters impacted by the printer issue had several ways to cast their ballot yesterday, including dropping their completed ballot into a secure box (door 3) on-site. Those ballots will be verified as legitimate and then tabulated at MCTEC. That process is already underway,” the statement added.
The campaigns for Republican gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake, U.S. Senate candidate Blake Masters, and the Republican National Committee (RNC) sued Maricopa County over the widespread issues at polling places.
An emergency motion to extend voting hours filed by the RNC, the National Republican Senatorial Committee, former state lawmaker Jill Norgaard, as well as Masters and Lake, was rejected on Tuesday by an Arizona judge, who stated that “the court does not have evidence there was a voter who was precluded the right to vote.”
As of Thursday morning, the state’s U.S. Senate and gubernatorial races, as well as other key statewide contests, remain too close to call. The slow process has prompted criticism from Republicans and election integrity watchdogs.
And guess who was Secretary of State?
Good report but the crooks got caught in the act.
Intentional chaos and confusion, this is how elections are stolen and when the criminals are in office it is also how they lead.
They cheated again. They are not going to stop cheating. It’s over.
“Maricopa County Board of Supervisors Chairman Bill Gates”
Oh jeez, that’s not good optics.
It looks like about 2 million have voted out of about 4 million registered. So Hobbs has about 2 million registered to “harvest” votes for herself from. I sure hope this isn’t what is taking the count so long but it does look suspicious.
I used to work with a guy named Bill gates!................
Cheat.
It’s what they do..................
the time has come to have a printer at each machine and after you vote it prints a complete ballot with all your choices filled in. There are plenty of safeguards regarding paper, toner, watermarks and others to make it safe, reliable, tamper evident and hard to counterfeit. It should also print a receipt for the voter and the ballot counter should lock all ballots in a box (inside the counter) until the vote is over.
1. Encourage Dems to vote early because GOPers prefer election day, and...
2. Mysterious "issues" with voting machines on election day.
Coincidence? Don't know, but maybe GOPers should start voting IN PERSON, and EARLY just to be certain.
ATTENTION MSM —
<><>2022 Repub wave is bigger (more votes) than tea party 2014…
<><>Republicans outvoted democrats 52-46 nationwide…
<><>6 million vote advantage for republicans…
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These voting machine malfunctions and paper shortages always happen in red areas and red areas ONLY.
That is the system we have here in the county in NC where I live. Republicans all had solid victories here.
Your vote doesn’t count because it isn’t counted.
Perfect.
I wish the people would revolt.
Whether it goes downtown and gets read manually, or whether re-fed into our tabulator, they get read, OK? the poll worker explained.
Leslie STAHL: It’s been debunked.
Trump: How?
Leslie STAHL: Because it’s been debunked...................
And a judge denied the extra poll hours request because there was no evidence that any voter had been denied the right to vote. Judges routinely extend hours, but not this time. Does anybody know the judge or his/her background?
McCainiacs running Maricopa are running the hidden ballot play here and no one, here at least seems to have noticed it. The important number is NOT that 17,000 couldn’t watch their ballots be tabulated. For which Maricopa promptly promised all 17,000 were scanned later so no harm, no foul. NO, the important numbers we are NOT GIVEN would be how many wanna be voters were discouraged from even entering the the voting lines or were forced to abandon the voting lines, at the time of their choice to vote, due to the the delays these machines caused. That was the voter suppression. They didn’t even try to count it. The judge could have remedied it in party with extra voting hours later, but refused to.
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