{"id":1736372,"date":"2022-11-12T06:01:04","date_gmt":"2022-11-12T11:01:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1736372"},"modified":"2022-11-12T11:19:41","modified_gmt":"2022-11-12T16:19:41","slug":"these-counties-experiencing-election-issues-have-one-thing-in-common","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/these-counties-experiencing-election-issues-have-one-thing-in-common\/","title":{"rendered":"These Counties Experiencing Election Issues Have One Thing in Common"},"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\">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%2Fthese-counties-experiencing-election-issues-have-one-thing-in-common%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=1736372&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\/ff446f83-59f5-44a3-a738-87aa37ef0fdf.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>It suffices to say that Election Day didn&#8217;t go as planned for some polling places that experienced and are still experiencing ballot-counting issues. Despite the varying election-related difficulties, multiple jurisdictions share one foreseen commonality. There&#8217;s a common thread connecting five counties spread across several states that were in disarray on Election Day: federal &#8220;monitors.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>On the eve of the elections, the Biden administration&#8217;s Department of Justice announced Monday it would be dispatching such monitors to as many as 64 jurisdictions in almost half of U.S. states on Election Day to oversee federal election law &#8220;compliance.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>According to the DOJ&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/opa\/pr\/justice-department-monitor-polls-24-states-compliance-federal-voting-rights-laws\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">watch list<\/a>, Pennsylvania&#8217;s Luzerne County, Texas&#8217;s Harris County, Arizona&#8217;s Maricopa County, and Pima County, and Nevada&#8217;s Washoe County all had the feds there &#8220;monitoring&#8221; polls. The nationwide deployment is a notable expansion. <span>Nevada wasn&#8217;t on\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/opa\/pr\/justice-department-again-monitor-compliance-federal-voting-rights-laws-election-day\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">the DOJ&#8217;s roster<\/a><span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/opa\/pr\/justice-department-again-monitor-compliance-federal-voting-rights-laws-election-day\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0two years ago<\/a><\/span><span>\u00a0during the presidential election cycle in 2020. Still, it was on the DOJ&#8217;s radar this time,\u00a0<\/span>and Pima County\u2014Arizona&#8217;s second-most populous, which holds Tucscon\u2014is among the new additions.<\/p>\n<p id=\"isPasted\">These five jurisdictions supposedly under in-person DOJ supervision throughout Tuesday suffered major muck-ups.<\/p>\n<p>Luzerne County, the most populous county in northeastern Pennsylvania, had <a href=\"https:\/\/townhall.com\/tipsheet\/spencerbrown\/2022\/11\/08\/voting-extended-in-one-pa-county-after-they-ran-out-of-ballots-and-turned-voters-away-n2615662\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">a serious supply shortage<\/a> of the paper used in voting machines to tabulate ballots. It was an egregious Election Day depletion that stopped voting in dozens of the county&#8217;s polling places, causing voters to be &#8220;turned away&#8221; and long lines for the patient Pennsylvanians who grinned and bared it. A court later issued an order allowing Luzerne County polls to remain open for two additional hours past closing time. The judge ordering the extension wrote: &#8220;Voters, through no fault of their own, were disenfranchised and denied the fundamental right to vote.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Big Election Day mess in Luzerne County, PA. Dozens of polling places ran out of printer paper for ballots. Voters had to be turned away.<\/p>\n<p>Court just ruled to extend polling hours to 10pm &#8211; an unprecedented move.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Dasha Burns (@DashaBurns) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DashaBurns\/status\/1590085064787755008?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">November 8, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Voting sites across Harris County, the Lone Star State&#8217;s largest county encompassing Houston, opened late on Election Day, prompting groups to file suit for an extra hour of voting, granted by a district court judge. After the court order was challenged by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, a Republican seeking re-election and winning, the Texas Supreme Court ruled that ballots cast at any of the county&#8217;s 781 polls in the final hour should be placed aside for the time being.<\/p>\n<p>Texans who arrived to vote after the normal closing time at 7 p.m. but were in line by 8 p.m. had to cast provisional ballots. According to the state&#8217;s high court ruling, the provisional votes were to be kept separate from the overall tally. At the same time, the legal process played out, Houston Public Media <a href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonpublicmedia.org\/articles\/news\/politics\/elections\/2022\/11\/08\/436959\/long-lines-and-minor-tech-issues-as-voting-gets-underway-in-harris-county\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">reported<\/a>, &#8220;sealed&#8221; away in an &#8220;envelope&#8221; instead of being inserted into the scanning machine and then tabulated at the &#8220;Central Count station&#8221; located inside of the massive Houston-based NRG Arena.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\u2757\ufe0fWATCH: Harris County GOP lists out all the anomalies on Election Day that specifically occurred in Republican stronghold polling locations <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/95HC7t5tRg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pic.twitter.com\/95HC7t5tRg<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Merissa Hansen\ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8\ud83d\udd75\ud83c\udffb\u200d\u2640\ufe0f (@MerissaHansen17) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MerissaHansen17\/status\/1590823631038599168?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">November 10, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/townhall.com\/tipsheet\/spencerbrown\/2022\/11\/08\/as-election-issues-mount-in-az-republicans-lawyer-up-to-ensure-votes-are-counted-n2615650\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Mayhem erupted in Arizona&#8217;s key Maricopa County<\/a>, the country&#8217;s second-largest voting jurisdiction, where ballots were being &#8220;misread&#8221; at <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tylerbowyer\/status\/1589986706744578048\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">a number of precincts<\/a>. At one point in the day, tabulators in 20% of the county&#8217;s polling locations <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CitizenFreePres\/status\/1590025445067874305\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">weren&#8217;t working properly<\/a>, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MaricopaVote\/status\/1590009384377384961\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">a video statement<\/a> by Maricopa County election officials. Not-yet-tabulated ballots were to be kept in a &#8220;secure box&#8221; for tabulation in the evening at &#8220;Central Count,&#8221; the county&#8217;s Board of Supervisors chairman Bill Gates instructed.<\/p>\n<p>After multiple printers were not producing dark-enough timing marks on ballots, the elections department that afternoon <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/maricopacounty\/status\/1590088467983499265\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">announced<\/a> they&#8217;d identified a simple solution for the equipment malfunctioning at 60 voting centers: changing the printer settings.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Printer settings. They didn\u2019t have the proper settings before today. Incredible. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/B8HddIQElq\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/t.co\/B8HddIQElq<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Katie Pavlich (@KatiePavlich) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KatiePavlich\/status\/1590093441265848320?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">November 8, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Farther south in Pima County, election staff <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/pimaarizona\/status\/1589989678781825024\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">cited &#8220;a technology issue&#8221;<\/a> that temporarily caused one voting center to be down temporarily.<\/p>\n<p>GOP lawyer Harmeet Dhillon pointed out that<span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-b88u0q r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">Pima County<\/span><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">\u00a0Recorder Gabriella C\u00e1zares-Kelly, who has &#8220;she\/her&#8221; pronouns and &#8220;dismantling white supremacy&#8221; in her Twitter bio, is &#8220;even more political and less cooperative than Maricopa.&#8221; Both counties are &#8220;slow-walking results, hoping to outlast our legal and other observers,&#8221; Dhillon tweeted Thursday. &#8220;Ain&#8217;t gonna happen!&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The biggest problems right now in Arizona are Maricopa and Pima Counties. The Pima Recorder is even more political and less cooperative than Maricopa. It looks like these counties are slow-walking results, hoping to outlast our legal and other observers. Ain\u2019t gonna happen! \ud83d\udc40\ud83d\udc41 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/mE65wS6aGl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pic.twitter.com\/mE65wS6aGl<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Harmeet K. Dhillon (@pnjaban) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/pnjaban\/status\/1590773547110404096?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">November 10, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"in-article-sidebar\" id=\"in-article-2\">\n<p>Let&#8217;s also remember that Katie Hobbs, the Democrat nominee in the hotly contested Grand Canyon State&#8217;s gubernatorial race, happens to be Arizona&#8217;s secretary of state. Yet, she has <a href=\"https:\/\/townhall.com\/tipsheet\/spencerbrown\/2022\/11\/03\/arizona-democrat-joins-calls-for-katie-hobbs-to-recuse-herself-from-midterm-election-n2615423\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">refused to recuse herself<\/a> from official midterm duties overseeing and certifying election results while running against GOP darling Kari Lake. But don&#8217;t pay attention to the Democrat behind the curtain.<\/p>\n<p>Northwest in Nevada, a new batch of mail-in votes by the thousands is <a href=\"https:\/\/townhall.com\/tipsheet\/katiepavlich\/2022\/11\/09\/mail-in-ballots-are-going-to-delay-nevadas-election-results-n2615738\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">delaying final counts<\/a>. In important Washoe County, a swing county and the state&#8217;s second-most populous, 16,000-or-so mail-in ballots were expected to arrive, which would not be counted until Thursday because poll workers were so far behind. Last year, Nevada began requiring that mail-in ballots be sent to every registered voter. Although ballots must be postmarked by Election Day, they&#8217;re countable upon arrival as late as Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>As of Friday afternoon, <a href=\"https:\/\/townhall.com\/tipsheet\/juliorosas\/2022\/11\/11\/maricopa-county-election-official-its-normal-for-vote-counting-to-take-days-n2615844\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">we&#8217;re still waiting on Arizona&#8217;s<\/a> and Nevada&#8217;s respective election results with bated breath.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/townhall.com\/tipsheet\/mattvespa\/2022\/09\/30\/we-have-an-estimate-of-the-damage-hurricane-ian-has-inflicted-on-florida-n2613809\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Hurricane-hit Florida<\/a>, which was able to count all votes on Election Day even as parts of the Sunshine State were evacuated in preparation for another tropical storm about to make landfall, <a href=\"https:\/\/townhall.com\/tipsheet\/katiepavlich\/2022\/11\/08\/florida-tells-doj-election-monitors-to-take-a-hike-n2615633\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">kicked the DOJ&#8217;s hall monitors to the curb<\/a>, barring any regime operatives from entering its polling places on the basis that outside monitoring is not permitted <a href=\"http:\/\/www.leg.state.fl.us\/statutes\/index.cfm?App_mode=Display_Statute&#038;URL=0100-0199\/0102\/Sections\/0102.031.html\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">under the state&#8217;s statutes<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In a letter addressed to DOJ elections coordinator John Russ, the state&#8217;s general counsel Brad McVay wrote: &#8220;Department of Justice personnel is not included on the list. Even if they could qualify under &#8216;law enforcement&#8217;&#8230;the presence of federal law enforcement inside polling places would be counterproductive and could potentially undermine confidence in the elections.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Here\u2019s the full letter <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/xIh5CcxKW4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pic.twitter.com\/xIh5CcxKW4<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Brendon Leslie (@BrendonLeslie) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BrendonLeslie\/status\/1589949998195937280?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">November 8, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p>Florida&#8217;s State Department invoked its authority under <a href=\"http:\/\/www.leg.state.fl.us\/statutes\/index.cfm?App_mode=Display_Statute&#038;Search_String=&#038;URL=0100-0199\/0101\/Sections\/0101.58.html\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">section 101.58(2) of the Florida Statutes<\/a> to send its monitors to the jurisdictions &#8220;targeted&#8221; by Biden&#8217;s DOJ to monitor the federal monitors and ensure there is &#8220;no interference with the voting process.&#8221; After the 2022 midterm elections, the DeSantis administration declared that the letter was &#8220;successful,&#8221; the DOJ obeyed Florida&#8217;s declaration, and no federal personnel violated state law prohibiting entry, Florida&#8217;s Voice <a href=\"https:\/\/flvoicenews.com\/desantis-administration-federal-personnel-did-not-enter-florida-polling-locations-letter-to-doj-successful\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">reported<\/a> Thursday morning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It suffices to say that Election Day didn&#8217;t go as planned for some polling places that experienced and are still experiencing ballot-counting issues. Despite the varying election-related difficulties, multiple jurisdictions<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1736375,"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-1736372","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\/1736372","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=1736372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1736372\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1736375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1736372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1736372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1736372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}