{"id":1590799,"date":"2022-08-05T09:48:32","date_gmt":"2022-08-05T13:48:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1590799"},"modified":"2022-08-05T09:48:34","modified_gmt":"2022-08-05T13:48:34","slug":"election-director-resigns-after-comprehensive-failure-on-primary-day-in-arizona-county-rnc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/election-director-resigns-after-comprehensive-failure-on-primary-day-in-arizona-county-rnc\/","title":{"rendered":"Election Director Resigns After \u2018Comprehensive Failure\u2019 on Primary Day in Arizona County: RNC"},"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\">26<\/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%2Felection-director-resigns-after-comprehensive-failure-on-primary-day-in-arizona-county-rnc%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=1590799&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>An election official from an Arizona county has resigned after allegations of voter irregularities and a ballot shortage on primary elections day.<\/p>\n<p>The Pinal County government confirmed that \u201cDavid Frisk is no longer in the position of Elections Director and is no longer employed by Pinal County\u201d in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pinalcountyaz.gov\/News\/Pages\/Article.aspx?myID=1657\">statement<\/a> on Thursday\u2013two days after Arizona\u2019s primary election day\u2014after a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/arizona-county-suffers-widespread-shortage-of-ballots-officials_4643205.html\">shortage of ballots<\/a> on primary election day and thousands of early ballots were sent to the wrong voters leading up to the primaries.<\/p>\n<p>Frisk was in charge of ordering the right number of ballots for primary election day, Jeffrey McClure, Chairman of the Pinal County Board of Supervisors, told reporters in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=gUQqTM1edps\">press conference<\/a> on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not sure how the ballot shortage happened,\u201d McClure said. \u201cWe opened the boxes, and there weren\u2019t enough ballots.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs a Board, we are deeply embarrassed and frustrated by the mistakes that have been made in this primary election,\u201d McClure said in a Thursday <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pinalcountyaz.gov\/News\/Pages\/Article.aspx?myID=1657\">statement<\/a>, \u201cand as such, we are taking immediate steps to ensure the November election runs smoothly, as elections in Pinal County have historically done prior to this primary.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Arizona primaries on Tuesday included Republican races for the U.S. Senate, U.S. House, secretary of state, the state legislature, and the high-profile gubernatorial race between Kari Lake and Karrin Taylor Robson.<\/p>\n<p> Ballot Shortage <\/p>\n<p>The Pinal County confirmed the ballot shortage late Tuesday, citing an \u201cunprecedented demand for in-person ballots\u201d causing \u201ca ballot shortage in certain, limited precincts.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The county said it continued to print ballots and distributed them to the affected polling site during primaries day.<\/p>\n<p>Pinal County Attorney Kent Volkmer during the press conference that approximately 25 precincts, each with a single voting station, out of 95 precincts were affected by the shortage. Volkmer added that about 750 out of 50,000 voters<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An election official from an Arizona county has resigned after allegations of voter irregularities and a ballot shortage on primary elections day. The Pinal County government confirmed that \u201cDavid Frisk is no longer in the position of Elections Director and is no longer employed by Pinal County\u201d in a statement on Thursday\u2013two days after Arizona\u2019s [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":720,"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-1590799","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\/1590799","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\/720"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1590799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1590799\/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=1590799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1590799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1590799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}