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SharpieGate resurfaces with a historical review of archived posts from the Maricopa County Recorder. On October 26, 2020, guidance for the use of Sharpies changed, and voters were instructed to use Sharpie markers to fill out their ballots. Voting machines and ballots were changed for the Democratic Presidential Preference Election in March 2020. The equipment and ballots were used in all ensuing elections. The equipment and ballots were changed, in part, so that voters could use Sharpies that are “fast drying.” YET, the guidance discouraging the use of Sharpies stayed in place until October 26. SB1135 was put in place...

Her LinkedIn profile fairly bulges with glowing recommendations. She is, to all appearances, the most dedicated and professional of Human Resource experts. So why did Kelly Dixon (@kellycanhire), the Maricopa County Elections Recruitment and Training Assistant Director, order election workers to hand out ballpoint pens from 10/23 through 11/2 and then suddenly switch to MARKERS on Election Day? Why, oh why!?! And why did she delete her Twitter account around 10:50 a.m. CST today when it all came to light!? (Don't worry. I've got the screenshots!) This morning, Ron Watkins (@codemonkeyz) retweeted a photograph of Kelly Dixon's 10/22/2020 email shown...

The Michigan attorney general pleaded with residents of the state on Thursday to stop telling her staff to shove Sharpies up their butts. Attorney General Dana Nessel made the plea in a tweet Thursday after a state judge tossed a lawsuit by the Trump campaign that sought to suspend ballot counting in the state. “Dear members of the public: Please stop making harassing & threatening calls to my staff,” Nessel wrote. “They are kind, hardworking public servants just doing their job. Asking them to shove sharpies in uncomfortable places is never appropriate & is a sad commentary on the state...

The result of the election is still unclear today with several key swing states still in play including Arizona, where Joe Biden’s comfortable lead over Trump shrank overnight, wreaking havoc on the results and prompting a posse of armed Trump voters to descend on counting centers. As tensions flared in Arizona overnight, armed pro-Trump protesters descended on a counting center in Maricopa County, after Biden’s commanding 200,000-vote lead was slashed to just 68,000 as ballots continued being tallied. They faced off with police and security outside the counting center, chanting that every vote should be counted with the result in...

*** URGENT - PROBLEMS WITH SHARPIES *** If you voted in person and were given a Sharpie please read this. You need to verify if your ballot was counted. If it was rejected you have to call immediately. Visit https://recorder.maricopa.gov/beballotready/ to see if your in-person vote was counted!

There has been quite a bit of speculation on whether voters should have used Sharpies to cast their ballots in Maricopa County. Social media posts being circulated in the Phoenix area are saying that if anyone used a Sharpie to fill out their ballot, their votes could be tossed. We received several messages on Election Day and into Wednesday that many polling places offered Sharpies to those voting in person. However, there were reports that some Sharpie-filled ballots were not counted, while others who used ballpoint pen had no issues. Video of voters complaining about poll workers handing them sharpies...