Posted on 04/11/2023 10:27:41 AM PDT by Coronal
An outside review of ballot printing mishaps in Maricopa County during the 2022 midterm elections that caused long lines and vote tabulation delays in critical Arizona races blamed the headaches on printer failures and paper ballot thickness.
Maricopa County, which includes the Phoenix area, contains 60% of Arizona’s voters and has been a hotbed for election denialism in the last two cycles. Former President Donald Trump alleged widespread fraud in Maricopa County tipped the state to President Joe Biden in the 2020 presidential election, while failed 2022 GOP gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake has cited Maricopa County election woes in her unsuccessful efforts to overturn her loss to now-Gov. Katie Hobbs (D-AZ).
The Maricopa County Board of Supervisors commissioned former Arizona Supreme Court Chief Justice Ruth McGregor in January to spearhead an investigation into why printers in the area had performance issues during the general election after operating successfully in the primaries. Nearly a quarter of the Election Day voting centers in the area had issues with tabulating or printing ballots.
McGregor's report attributed the Election Day failures to older printers being unable to maintain heat levels necessary to print ballots dark enough to be read by on-site tabulators and the length and thickness of the ballots causing the printers to fail.
“This report is exactly what we needed. An unbiased analysis of what happened and a range of recommendations for what to do next,” Board of Supervisors Vice Chairman Jack Sellers said in a statement. “Whether it’s replacing printers, using different paper, or changing the way we test equipment before an election, you can be sure our Board will take any steps necessary to ensure in-person voters have the experience they deserve in 2024.”
The county has vehemently denied accusations of malfeasance or allegations that its election oversight altered outcomes.
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“Coincidences that aren’t coincidences.” - Michael Connelly
Jack Sellers {check the photo on this simp) joined the Board of Supervisors on February 13, 2019 after a unanimous appointment to fill the empty seat representing District 1.
Mr. Sellers previously served two terms on the Chandler City Council and continues to serve as chairman of the Arizona State Transportation Board. He also has a position on the GPEC International Leadership Council, the Arizona-Mexico Commission and Arizona Sister Cities.
Mr. Sellers believes in improving the quality of life across the region by encouraging a vibrant economy that utilizes technology to ensure we are a Smart Region. He is an advocate of intelligent infrastructure development and autonomous vehicles maintaining relationships with MAG, Valley Metro, ADOT and the Federal Highway Administration.
Wasn’t there some kind of question about supposedly counterfeit ballots with incorrect dimensions and unofficial origin?
Just axin
As for ‘unofficial origin’, the County largely failed to track mail-in ballots from their collection points to their tabulation center. They have admitted this, but have insisted that their way fulfills the law. This was a rather jaw-dropping portion of the judicial hearing when the SoS’s lawyers declared they were going to try to extract judicial punishment on Lake’s lawyers for claiming that they could prove ballots were illegally injected into the counting stream when such a thing could not be proven even if they had been.
In this case, they didn’t bother to use the legally prescribed paper at all in 202, nor it appears in 2022.
Bingo, we have a winner!
These types of problems don’t show up all at once. Equipment has a “bathtub curve” for failures where there are lots of failures for new equipment, years of use with little or no failures, and then rising failure rates at the end of the equipment life. With so many printers and scanners in service, these problems should have been witnessed earlier. It just doesn’t make sense that they all arose in one precinct for one election.
I was referring specifically to the print darkness issue. While that was an issue, it was not the main one. That’s my point - that they are using a minor ancillary issue to cover for the issues of the printer settings being changed, and for not using the legally required paper, and adding to those with the whole marker issue.
Yes, China should have done a better job when creating counterfeit ballots.
I agree. The equipment has to work on election day. The volunteers at the polling centers aren't capable of troubleshooting problems. I am guessing the laptops that were used to pull voter information and print the ballots all had the same HD image.
And it was only just one technique of many.
Trump’s landslide must have been huge.
and they all worked fine the day before official voting day
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