Arizona County GOP Chairmembers have united in sending a letter to the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors, objecting to the certification of the 2022 Midterm Election.
Chair members and representatives from Arizona’s 15 counties, and Arizona GOP Chairwoman Kelli Ward, registered their objections to election certification “until such time as the many issues related to the administration of the 2022 General Election are thoroughly investigated, and the potential statutory violations of A.R.S Title 16 are remedied.”
Breaking Digest reported on the numerous issues in Maricopa County’s General Election on November 8. Due to the incompetence of Maricopa County and Katie Hobbs, tabulators were down, printers ran out of ink, and long lines kept Republican voters waiting to cast their ballots. Republican voters were told to drop their ballots into “box 3” to be counted later.
Breaking Digest previously reported that Jennifer Wright, the Assistant Attorney General from the state of Arizona, sent a letter to Maricopa County demanding answers to these tabulation errors and co-mingling of ballots in duffle bags by November 28.
The County admitted to 30% of polling locations having these issues, but a new report reveals that over 60% of polling locations were experiencing these anomalies and extreme wait times.
The letter from GOP Chair Members states, “Statistically, the certification of an election in a county with 58.7% of the registered voters that experienced widespread, systemic failures disenfranchises the votes cast in the 14 remaining counties in the State of Arizona. Our voters will come to believe if you do not live in Maricopa, there is no need to vote.”
“If Maricopa County and the State of Arizona are allowed to move forward with this blunder of an election lacking in execution and contingency planning, the voters in the outlying counties will, like those in Maricopa County, be effectively disenfranchised and their votes which are their voices will be silenced.”
The letter to Maricopa County lists the election day failures as follows:
Election Day Administration Failures:
- Multiple failures related to ballot-on-demand (BOD) printers
- Tabulators experiencing problems reading ballots printed by the BOD printers at between 60 and 118 voting locations
- Lack of training related to the “check-in” “check-out” procedures for e-Poll books
- “Door 3” ballots which Maricopa County failed to adhere to the statutory guidelines in segregating, counting, tabulating, tallying, and transporting of the ballots
- Failure to reconcile check-ins and ballots cast against check in at the voting locations
- Erroneous instructions advising ‘checked-in’ voters to vote elsewhere, vote provisionally elsewhere, drop off a mail ballot- all three of which would result in the voters’ ballots NOT being counted
- Untold numbers of voters giving up and leaving without voting
- Failure to provide voting materials for the accessible voting machines required by Federal law, which could have been used to allow voting
- Failure to resolve equipment failures throughout the day and until the end of voting
Read the full letter below.
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