{"id":1749598,"date":"2022-11-23T13:33:17","date_gmt":"2022-11-23T18:33:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1749598"},"modified":"2022-11-23T13:33:29","modified_gmt":"2022-11-23T18:33:29","slug":"maricopa-county-made-arizonas-elections-even-more-of-a-disaster-than-people-realize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/maricopa-county-made-arizonas-elections-even-more-of-a-disaster-than-people-realize\/","title":{"rendered":"Maricopa County Made Arizona\u2019s Elections Even More Of A Disaster Than People Realize"},"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-made-arizonas-elections-even-more-of-a-disaster-than-people-realize%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=1749598&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>After it trained upwards of 50,000 poll watchers, poll workers, and other roles for ongoing citizen engagement in the election process over the year leading up to the 2022 midterms, the Election Integrity Network sent out a survey to its on-the-ground volunteers following Election Day to gauge how things went.<\/p>\n<p>The responses from election workers in key battleground districts and states around the country showed a mostly calm election cycle compared to 2020, with one massive and overwhelming exception. In Maricopa County, Arizona, election workers were appalled and aghast at how things had been run there.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs soon as we sent the survey out, we were flooded with responses showing that they had no confidence in how the election had been run there,\u201d Executive Director of the Election Integrity Network Marshall Yates told The Federalist.<\/p>\n<p>According to Yates, unlike the rest of the country, where survey respondents espoused general confidence in their respective elections, the responses from Arizona were overwhelming, with Maricopa poll watchers and poll workers saying they had \u201czero\u201d confidence in the election.<\/p>\n<p>Maricopa, which is home to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.census.gov\/quickfacts\/fact\/table\/AZ,maricopacountyarizona\/PST045221\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">almost 62 percent<\/a> of Arizona\u2019s 7.2 million people, was already in the news on Election Day for its hours-long lines and broken machines. After its close and contentious 2020 election, Maricopa County officials refused to cooperate with an <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2021\/09\/27\/arizona-2020-vote-audit-finds-potentially-election-shifting-numbers-of-illegal-ballots\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">audit<\/a> of the election by state senators and dismissed concerns about how it conducts elections. This year, it took the county just under two full weeks to count ballots.<\/p>\n<p>Election Day workers flooded the survey response team with stories of incompetence, chaos, and mismanagement that resulted in the disenfranchisement of voters.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe printers were not properly calibrated so the tabulators did not read the ballots and were rejected. Many voters left because of the delays and either did not vote or had to go to other vote centers to vote,\u201d one Maricopa poll observer <a href=\"https:\/\/whoscounting.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Data_All_221118.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reported<\/a>. \u201cSome voters did not want to place rejected ballot into misreads box. Some voting centers may have mixed tabulated ballots with misreads.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis was a horrible thing to experience. Poll workers conveyed a shocking lack of competence \u2014 it actually looked like willful incompetence,\u201d another said.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, these accounts are among many reported incidents of failed election administration seen throughout Maricopa on Election Day and in the days following. From finicky ballot tabulator machines to probable violations of state law, the seemingly endless slew of problems witnessed by Maricopa residents was a clearcut example of how <em>not<\/em> to run an election.<\/p>\n<p> A County Filled with Chaos <\/p>\n<p>Unlike most states, where citizens vote at their local neighborhood-based precinct, Arizona allows for its counties to adopt a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncsl.org\/research\/elections-and-campaigns\/vote-centers.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">vote center model<\/a>, where voters are permitted to cast their ballots at any center within their voting jurisdiction, regardless of their address. Upon arriving at one of these centers, Maricopa voters check in by <a href=\"https:\/\/elections.maricopa.gov\/voting\/id-at-the-polls.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">providing<\/a> their state-approved ID, at which point a ballot-on-demand printer produces a ballot that is filled out by the voter and run through a vote tabulation machine. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;This was a horrible thing to experience. Poll workers conveyed a shocking lack of competence \u2014 it actually looked like willful incompetence,&#8217; a Maricopa poll observer said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":539,"featured_media":1749601,"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-1749598","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\/1749598","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=1749598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1749598\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1749601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1749598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1749598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1749598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}