{"id":1734034,"date":"2022-11-10T15:47:28","date_gmt":"2022-11-10T20:47:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1734034"},"modified":"2022-11-10T15:47:30","modified_gmt":"2022-11-10T20:47:30","slug":"arizonas-election-administration-is-an-international-embarrassment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/arizonas-election-administration-is-an-international-embarrassment\/","title":{"rendered":"Arizona\u2019s Election Administration Is An International Embarrassment"},"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\">14<\/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%2Farizonas-election-administration-is-an-international-embarrassment%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=1734034&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>Two days have passed since polls closed in Arizona and unsurprisingly, election officials in the state have failed to provide voters with the final results of numerous highly contested races.<\/p>\n<p>As of this article\u2019s publication, none of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2022\/11\/08\/us\/elections\/results-arizona.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Arizona\u2019s contested statewide races<\/a> have been called for any of their respective candidates. With 70 percent of votes tabulated, Democrat Katie Hobbs leads her Republican rival Kari Lake in the gubernatorial race by fewer than 13,000 votes, while Democrat Mark Kelly leads Republican Blake Masters by a little less than 95,000. The races for Arizona attorney general and secretary of state also remain up in the air, with both still too close to call.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Associated Press, there are <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/2022-midterm-elections-arizona-nov-10-007b2d3aab2820016b1e009cdcbd3ecc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">approximately 600,000 ballots<\/a> \u2014 roughly a quarter of all those cast \u2014 that have yet to be tabulated as of Thursday afternoon, with a large segment of these votes coming from the state\u2019s most populous county, Maricopa. On Wednesday morning, Maricopa officials estimated that there are \u201cmore than 400K ballots left to count,\u201d with the locality receiving \u201c275K early ballots on Election Day.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u2022We have ~86K early ballots processed from late last week and ready to tabulate<br \/>\u2022We have ~50K early ballots dropped off Monday &#038; 17K from secure slots (box 3) on Election Day that need to be processed <\/p>\n<p>~1.1 million ballots already reported. New batch of results tonight 2\/2<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Maricopa County (@maricopacounty) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/maricopacounty\/status\/1590385750205681666?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 9, 2022<\/a>  <\/p>\n<p>The chairman of Maricopa\u2019s Board of Supervisors Bill Gates has since told a CNN reporter on Thursday that the county doesn\u2019t expect to have all of their votes finalized until \u201cearly next week.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The Chairman of Maricopa County&#8217;s Board of Supervisors just said that there are around 400,000 ballots left to be counted and that they won&#8217;t be done until &#8220;early next week.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/9zQuZKyLtG\">pic.twitter.com\/9zQuZKyLtG<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Greg Price (@greg_price11) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/greg_price11\/status\/1590786462613901313?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 10, 2022<\/a>  <\/p>\n<p>The delayed counting in Maricopa comes on top of the county\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/11\/08\/heres-a-list-of-counties-reporting-issues-at-the-ballot-box-this-election-day\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Election Day fiasco<\/a>, where vote tabulation machines in roughly 20 percent of Maricopa\u2019s voting locations stopped working due to a \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/maricopacounty\/status\/1590540711942066176?s=20&#038;t=5iYwE7lt7C0SL5GSKIaH0w\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">printer issue.<\/a>\u201d Local officials have since issued a public apology for their gross incompetence, saying in a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/maricopacounty\/status\/1590540959544381440?s=20&#038;t=3ja0WxtVvQzqACxC-BEjrA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">statement<\/a> that they are \u201cconfident in the work still to be done to count every vote securely and accurately.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But the problems witnessed throughout Arizona this week are hardly exclusive to the 2022 midterms. Earlier this year, it took <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/08\/04\/trump-ally-kari-lake-wins-gop-primary-for-arizona-governor\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">two days<\/a> for election officials to determine that Kari Lake had won her race to become Arizona\u2019s GOP gubernatorial candidate. As <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/08\/04\/trump-ally-kari-lake-wins-gop-primary-for-arizona-governor\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">described<\/a> by the New York Post, \u201c[e]arly election results showing only mail ballots received before Election Day\u201d had given the advantage to Lake\u2019s chief opponent, Karrin Taylor Robson. Lake\u2019s victory was only realized after Maricopa County had released results from \u201cthousands of mail ballots\u201d that were dropped off at voting locations on Election Day.<\/p>\n<p>Similar delays in election results were also notable in the 2020 presidential contest between former President Donald Trump and then-candidate Joe Biden. While some outlets such as the <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/election-2020-joe-biden-donald-trump-race-and-ethnicity-legislature-218ad4d596e87c6b1a223f19f817776e\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Associated Press<\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The chairman of Maricopa&#8217;s Board of Supervisors told CNN the county doesn&#8217;t expect to have all of their votes finalized until &#8216;early next week.&#8217;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":539,"featured_media":1419844,"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-1734034","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\/1734034","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=1734034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1734034\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1419844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1734034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1734034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1734034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}