{"id":1730262,"date":"2022-11-08T15:19:16","date_gmt":"2022-11-08T20:19:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1730262"},"modified":"2022-11-08T15:33:14","modified_gmt":"2022-11-08T20:33:14","slug":"maricopa-county-election-officials-try-to-reassure-voters-amid-reports-of-malfunctioning-machines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/maricopa-county-election-officials-try-to-reassure-voters-amid-reports-of-malfunctioning-machines\/","title":{"rendered":"Maricopa County Election Officials Try to Reassure Voters Amid Reports of Malfunctioning Machines"},"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%2Fmaricopa-county-election-officials-try-to-reassure-voters-amid-reports-of-malfunctioning-machines%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=1730262&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/original_maricopa_machine.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>As Arizonans continue to run into issues in Maricopa County while trying to vote, Maricopa County officials gave an update, saying they\u2019re trying to fix ongoing issues with their tabulators &#8220;as quickly as possible.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The update from officials comes as more reports of malfunctioning <a href=\"https:\/\/thepostmillennial.com\/breaking-voting-machines-down-in-new-jerseys-mercer-county\">voting machines<\/a> emerge in the Arizona county.\u00a0One poll worker was seen telling a voter that &#8220;nothing is working for the last half hour,&#8221; and reiterated the statements made by county officials.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><\/blockquote>\n<p>Bill Gates, Chairman of the County Board of Supervisors, and County Recorder Stephen Richer provided an update to Twitter as to the complications their tabulating machines are currently facing.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ve already had almost 44,000 people show up this morning, check-in and be available to vote, and things are going great out there,&#8221; said Gates.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But there&#8217;s one thing that we wanted to address to make people aware of today, and that has to do with our tabulators. We&#8217;ve got about 20 percent of the locations out there where there&#8217;s an issue with the tabulator, where some of the ballots that after people have voted them, they try and run them through the tabulator and they&#8217;re not going through,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>Gates continued on to say that officials are trying to fix this issue &#8220;as quickly as possible,&#8221; and added that &#8220;we also have a redundancy in place.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If you can&#8217;t put the ballot in the tabulator, then you can simply place it here, where you see the number three, and this is a secure box where those ballots will be kept for later this evening. We&#8217;ll bring them in here to central count to tabulate them,&#8221; said Gates.<\/p>\n<p>Richer said that the redundancy option would function &#8220;much like early voting functions,&#8221; and added that &#8220;this is actually what the majority of Arizona counties do on Election Day.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, Gates said that that there are 223 voting centers across the county, and if &#8220;there were long lines at the location you\u2019re at, or issues with the tabulator, if you would prefer to go to another location you can do that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Another poll worker was seen on <a href=\"https:\/\/thepostmillennial.com\/dominion-voting-machines-in-arizona-malfunctioning-as-election-day-kicks-off\">Tuesday morning<\/a> explaining that one tabulator was not working, and the other one was rejecting 25 percent of ballots, explaining that in this case, voters should drop their ballots in box 3.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Arizonans continue to run into issues in Maricopa County while trying to vote, Maricopa County officials gave an update, saying they\u2019re trying to fix ongoing issues with their tabulators<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1730265,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1730262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1730262","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1730262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1730262\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1730265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1730262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1730262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1730262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}