{"id":1758685,"date":"2022-12-01T16:33:21","date_gmt":"2022-12-01T21:33:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1758685"},"modified":"2022-12-01T16:33:34","modified_gmt":"2022-12-01T21:33:34","slug":"poll-worker-gives-an-inside-look-at-complete-chaos-in-maricopa-county-on-election-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/poll-worker-gives-an-inside-look-at-complete-chaos-in-maricopa-county-on-election-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Poll Worker Gives An Inside Look At \u2018Complete Chaos\u2019 In Maricopa County On Election Day"},"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\">30<\/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%2Fpoll-worker-gives-an-inside-look-at-complete-chaos-in-maricopa-county-on-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=1758685&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>Heading into Election Day 2022, Maricopa County election worker Erin Smith was feeling cautiously optimistic about the administration of Arizona\u2019s elections. With a motivated team of fellow election workers from all political backgrounds, a smoothly run election seemed like a real possibility.<\/p>\n<p>But nothing could prepare Smith for what happened on Election Day.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was in Ukraine in March within a week of the war starting and \u2026 at no point was it ever as overwhelming as it was on Election Day in Maricopa,\u201d Smith told The Federalist.<\/p>\n<p>Within hours of polls opening in Arizona, election workers at <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/11\/23\/maricopa-county-made-arizonas-elections-even-more-of-a-disaster-than-people-realize\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">roughly 30 percent<\/a> of Maricopa\u2019s voting centers began reporting that their respective vote tabulation machines were rejecting voters\u2019 ballots, leading to long waiting lines and widespread confusion among voters and poll workers alike. While county officials ultimately determined the source of the problem to be misconfigured ballot printer settings, the chaos had already been set in stone.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe energy instantly changed when the tabulators [stopped] working,\u201d said Smith, who served as a troubleshooter for three of Maricopa\u2019s voting centers. \u201c[Voters were] righteously mad \u2026 it was just complete chaos.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>With so many voting centers experiencing the same issue, Maricopa Board of Supervisors Chairman Bill Gates\u00a0told voters that they had the option of traveling to another voting center to cast their ballot. Due to the unfamiliarity among voters and election workers with the proper \u201ccheck out\u201d procedures, however, many voters who left their original centers did so without properly checking out and were informed upon arriving at another voting location that the county\u2019s e-Pollbook system had classified them as having already voted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cVoters this cycle have in fact been disenfranchised,\u201d a purported Maricopa poll worker <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KariLake\/status\/1597292104211832832?s=20&#038;t=d6nRPhAEFp3I_Uc64EBvEA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">said<\/a> during a county Board of Supervisors meeting on Monday. \u201cThey [were] told they can\u2019t check in because they weren\u2019t able to properly check out at the previous polling center they were at.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe as poll workers were not taught how to check out voters,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Maricopa Poll Worker CONFIRMS: Poll Workers WERE NOT trained properly, voters were 100% disenfranchised. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvery single one of us who\u2019s a poll worker right now is making fun of you\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/HjXrWM50Bx\">pic.twitter.com\/HjXrWM50Bx<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Kari Lake (@KariLake) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KariLake\/status\/1597292104211832832?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 28, 2022<\/a>  <\/p>\n<p>With so many finicky tabulators, Gates and <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\">County Recorder Stephen Richer<\/a> also gave Maricopa voters the option of placing their non-tabulated ballots in a bin called \u201cDoor 3,\u201d which would be taken to the county\u2019s central counting center after polls closed to be tallied. Due to the tabulator problems, however, some of the bins storing the non-tabulated Door 3 ballots began to overflow.<\/p>\n<p>As a proposed solution, county officials sent out an email to election workers around 3:30 p.m. on Election Day with instructions to designate one of their on-hand, black zipper bags \u2014 which are <a href=\"https:\/\/elections.maricopa.gov\/asset\/jcr:2f02b340-4bc1-4782-8fa1-9813afabb37a\/FINAL%202022%20Primary%20General%20Manual_Redacted1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">normally used<\/a> to transport already-tabulated votes \u2014 as a \u201cmisread ballot\u201d bag to store the Door 3 ballots until they could be moved and counted after polls closed. But once again, anarchy ensued when the convoluted<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;I was in Ukraine in March &#8230; at no point was it ever as overwhelming as it was on Election Day in Maricopa,&#8217; Smith said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":539,"featured_media":1758688,"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-1758685","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\/1758685","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=1758685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1758685\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1758688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1758685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1758685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1758685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}