{"id":1588993,"date":"2022-08-04T12:33:30","date_gmt":"2022-08-04T16:33:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1588993"},"modified":"2022-08-04T12:33:32","modified_gmt":"2022-08-04T16:33:32","slug":"arizona-county-suffers-widespread-shortage-of-ballots-election-officials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/arizona-county-suffers-widespread-shortage-of-ballots-election-officials\/","title":{"rendered":"Arizona County Suffers Widespread Shortage of Ballots: Election Officials"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Farizona-county-suffers-widespread-shortage-of-ballots-election-officials%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1588993&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Officials in Pinal County, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-arizona\">Arizona<\/a>, said there was a shortage of ballots at more than 20 voting sites during the primary election this week, which left some voters without the ability to cast votes.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday evening, Pinal County\u2019s Election district confirmed the shortage and suggested that people use an \u201cexpress vote device\u201d instead.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDue to unprecedented demand for in-person ballots, Pinal County has experienced a ballot shortage in certain, limited precincts. Pinal County is continuing to print additional ballots and distributing them to each affected precinct polling place,\u201d county officials <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PinalCounty\/status\/1554617203588116481?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">wrote<\/a> in a Twitter post.<\/p>\n<p>It later added that \u201cyou can choose to use the express vote device located at the polling place, or as long as you are physically in line at 7:00 pm today, you will be permitted to cast a ballot,\u201d noting that people who arrive after 7 p.m. \u201care not permitted\u201d to vote.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPinal County is continuing to print additional ballots and distributing them to each affected precinct polling place,\u201d the election office said.<\/p>\n<p>Pinal County Attorney Kent Volkmer and Jeffrey McClure, chair of the Board of Supervisors, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox10phoenix.com\/news\/voter-confusion-continues-in-pinal-county-due-to-unprecedented-demand-for-in-person-ballots\">issued<\/a> a joint statement to FOX10 saying it was a \u201cmajor screw-up\u201d but McClure claimed he has \u201cnot seen evidence of a nefarious act.\u201d Instead, he termed the shortage as \u201cmistakes made on a grand scale.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>About two dozen sites in Pinal County experienced shortages in ballots, officials told the station.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re all human. We\u2019ve all screwed up. There\u2019s nothing sinister. It wasn\u2019t as if we said, \u2018Hey, this is only going to impact a Republican, or this is only going to impact a Democrat.\u2019 This was widespread, it was equal opportunity, it was just simply a mistake,\u201d Volkmer said during a news conference a day later, adding that about 750 out of 50,000 voters may have been<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Officials in Pinal County, Arizona, said there was a shortage of ballots at more than 20 voting sites during the primary election this week, which left some voters without the ability to cast votes. On Tuesday evening, Pinal County\u2019s election agency confirmed the shortage and suggested that people use an \u201cexpress vote device\u201d instead. \u201cDue [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1588993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1588993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1588993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1588993\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1588993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1588993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1588993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}