{"id":1730428,"date":"2022-11-08T17:32:26","date_gmt":"2022-11-08T22:32:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1730428"},"modified":"2022-11-08T17:32:30","modified_gmt":"2022-11-08T22:32:30","slug":"heres-a-list-of-counties-reporting-issues-at-the-ballot-box-this-election-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/heres-a-list-of-counties-reporting-issues-at-the-ballot-box-this-election-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Here\u2019s A List Of Counties Reporting Issues At The Ballot Box This Election Day"},"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\">28<\/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%2Fheres-a-list-of-counties-reporting-issues-at-the-ballot-box-this-election-day%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=1730428&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>Given the chaotic nature of the 2020 elections \u2014 all thanks to an <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2021\/10\/12\/the-2020-election-wasnt-stolen-it-was-bought-by-mark-zuckerberg\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">influx of private money<\/a> into election offices and an unprecedented expansion of unsupervised mail-in voting \u2014 one would think that election officials throughout the country would have readjusted in preparation for the 2022 midterms. Sadly, that isn\u2019t the case.<\/p>\n<p>Throughout Election Day, some Americans have been (unsurprisingly) encountering myriad problems when going to cast their ballots at their local precinct. In several key states across the country, local election officials are confirming a variety of troubles at the ballot box, ranging from malfunctioning voting machines to paper shortages. <\/p>\n<p> Arizona <\/p>\n<p>In Maricopa County, which happens to be Arizona\u2019s most populous locality, election officials are reporting problems with vote tabulation machines in roughly one-fifth of the county\u2019s voting locations. In a video posted to the Maricopa County Elections Department\u2019s Twitter page at 10:52 a.m. ET, Maricopa Board of Supervisors Chairman Bill Gates and County Recorder Stephen Richer confirmed that there are issues at \u201cabout 20 percent\u201d of the county\u2019s voting locations where \u201csome of the ballots\u201d that are run through the vote tabulator are \u201cnot going through.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In the video, Gates explains that if voters \u201ccan\u2019t put the ballot in the tabulator,\u201d there is a \u201credundancy in place\u201d where voters can place their ballots in a \u201csecure box\u201d attached to the tabulator \u201cwhere those ballots will be kept for later this evening where [election officials] will bring them [] to central count to tabulate them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The county has since <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MaricopaVote\/status\/1590093234201825280?s=20&#038;t=SZUKZk2o3jqai_Wop290oQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">issued an update<\/a> claiming that they have identified the problem with the tabulation machines and are currently working to resolve the matter.<\/p>\n<p>As <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/10\/20\/az-election-official-stephen-richer-ran-on-election-integrity-now-hes-accused-of-law-breaking-and-politicking\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reported<\/a> by Federalist Editor-in-Chief Mollie Hemingway, Richer has completely failed to live up to his prior promises of restoring integrity to Maricopa\u2019s election systems. After becoming the county\u2019s recorder, Richer \u201cnow uses his perch as an opportunity to regularly defend the Democrat-run 2020 election in Maricopa County\u201d and \u201cwrite op-eds at CNN against the type of election audits he conducted to gain power,\u201d as well as \u201cdraft lengthy screeds lambasting Republican leaders and voters for their election integrity concerns.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Most recently, Richer has come under fire for purportedly using county resources to lobby against\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/10\/17\/heres-a-list-of-election-integrity-ballot-initiatives-you-should-know\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Arizona\u2019s Proposition 309<\/a>, a ballot measure that seeks to enhance the state\u2019s existing voter ID laws. The idea that Richer is an unbiased elections administrator is ridiculous.<\/p>\n<p> Pennsylvania <\/p>\n<p>In Luzerne County, local news outlets began reporting this morning of paper ballot shortages at several polling locations throughout the county. Election officials in the locality, as described by a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wnep.com\/article\/news\/local\/luzerne-county\/voting-problems-reported-in-luzerne-county-election-day-voting-machines-paper\/523-61854cab-31e2-42c6-8a63-091004544395\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">local ABC affiliate<\/a>, said that \u201cpaper was getting sent out by noon\u201d and that they \u201chad to order it in the morning when problems started to arise.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Luzerne election workers also claimed to the outlet that voters shouldn\u2019t be \u201cconcerned about their vote counting,\u201d with the county\u2019s acting deputy director of elections, Emily Cook, blaming the shortages on \u201ca perfect storm of factors,\u201d such as high voter turnout.<\/p>\n<p>A Luzerne County judge has since<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Election Day 2022 has arrived and unsurprisingly, some Americans are already encountering a myriad of problems when going to cast their ballots at their local precinct.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":539,"featured_media":1730431,"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":[546],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1730428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist"],"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\/1730428","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\/539"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1730428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1730428\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1730431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1730428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1730428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1730428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}