{"id":1733705,"date":"2022-11-10T12:50:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-10T17:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1733705"},"modified":"2022-11-10T13:03:20","modified_gmt":"2022-11-10T18:03:20","slug":"maricopa-county-starts-hand-count-audit-with-400000-ballots-still-uncounted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/maricopa-county-starts-hand-count-audit-with-400000-ballots-still-uncounted\/","title":{"rendered":"Maricopa County Starts Hand-Count Audit With 400,000 Ballots Still Uncounted"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/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-starts-hand-count-audit-with-400000-ballots-still-uncounted%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=1733705&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:\/\/justthenews.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/social_media_share\/public\/2021-04\/GettyImages-1229385951.jpg?h=199d8c1f&#038;itok=1l_kV9fG\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Arizona&#8217;s Maricopa County has begun its hand-count audit of midterm ballots \u2013 with roughly 400,000 of them still uncounted, as the state&#8217;s Senate race, which will help determine whether Democrats or Republicans next control the Senate, remains undecided.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The county started the audit Wednesday night with the chairpersons for the Republican, Democratic, and Libertarian parties randomly picking the races and ballots that will be reviewed Saturday as a sample by the\u00a0hand count audit boards.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is an important step in ensuring the accuracy of the 2022 General Election results,&#8221;\u00a0county Elections Department tweeted Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<p>The hand count audit&#8217;s purpose\u00a0&#8220;is to compare the results of the original count to the hand count to assure that the tabulation equipment is working properly and accurately counting votes,&#8221; according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/azsos.gov\/post-election-procedures\">Arizona secretary of state&#8217;s website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The audit began after about <a href=\"https:\/\/justthenews.com\/politics-policy\/elections\/voting-machine-problems-arise-20-polling-locations-arizona-maricopa\">20% of polling locations in Maricopa County<\/a> had issues with ballot tabulation machines on Election Day.<\/p>\n<p>Of the estimated 250,000 in-person ballots that were cast on Election Day, 7%, or about 17,000 ballots, needed to be counted separately after being placed in a secure slot on the tabulation machines because of the electronic errors.<\/p>\n<p>More than <a href=\"https:\/\/apps.arizona.vote\/info\/bps\/2022-general-election\/33\/0\">1.1 million ballots<\/a> in the county have already been counted as the Arizona races for governor, secretary of state, attorney general, and Senate have yet to be called.<\/p>\n<p>The Maricopa County Recorder&#8217;s Office told Just the News on Thursday that the audit is standard procedure for every election in Arizona, and is done to verify the numbers produced by the ballot tabulators.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arizona&#8217;s Maricopa County has begun its hand-count audit of midterm ballots \u2013 with roughly 400,000 of them still uncounted, as the state&#8217;s Senate race, which will help determine whether Democrats<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1733709,"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-1733705","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\/1733705","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=1733705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1733705\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1733709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1733705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1733705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1733705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}