{"id":1784746,"date":"2022-12-23T08:11:52","date_gmt":"2022-12-23T13:11:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1784746"},"modified":"2022-12-23T08:19:26","modified_gmt":"2022-12-23T13:19:26","slug":"maricopa-county-official-says-printer-settings-changed-on-election-day-linked-to-tabulators-rejecting-ballots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/maricopa-county-official-says-printer-settings-changed-on-election-day-linked-to-tabulators-rejecting-ballots\/","title":{"rendered":"Maricopa County Official Says  Printer Settings Changed on Election Day, Linked to Tabulators Rejecting Ballots"},"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\">32<\/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-official-says-printer-settings-changed-on-election-day-linked-to-tabulators-rejecting-ballots%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=1784746&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\/2022-11\/GettyImages-1440570062.jpg?h=50002686&#038;itok=jFZxew0K\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\"   style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>A top Maricopa County elections official\u00a0admitted Thursday in the Kari Lake election challenge\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/justthenews.com\/politics-policy\/elections\/kari-lake-lawsuit-maricopa-county-put-trial-after-decade-election-issues\">trial<\/a>\u00a0that incorrect Election Day changes to\u00a0ballot-on-demand printer settings were a factor in ballots being rejected by tabulators.<\/p>\n<p>Lake, the 2022 Arizona GOP gubernatorial nominee, is suing her Democratic opponent, Governor-elect and Secretary of State Katie Hobbs; Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer; the county Board of Supervisors; and county Director of Elections Scott Jarrett.<\/p>\n<p>Lake&#8217;s case alleges the &#8220;number of illegal votes cast in Arizona&#8217;s general election &#8230; far exceeds the 17,117 vote margin&#8221; between her and Hobbs.<\/p>\n<p>Jarrett, who testified as a witness for the plaintiff on Wednesday and as a witness for the defendants on Thursday, admitted under direct examination by defense counsel that the county is conducting a root cause analysis of the Election Day issues. During this post-election analysis, the county found last month that one of the problems with ballot-on-demand printers was a &#8220;fit-to-paper&#8221; or &#8220;shrink-to-fit&#8221; setting adjusted on Election Day, Jarrett said.<\/p>\n<p>Maricopa County has admitted that <a href=\"https:\/\/justthenews.com\/politics-policy\/elections\/top-seven-indisputable-facts-about-ariz-election-election-day-issues\">70 of its 223 vote centers<\/a> experienced ballot printer issues on Election Day, while Lake alleges in her lawsuit that about 132 of them did.<\/p>\n<p>Under cross-examination by Lake&#8217;s counsel, Jarrett explained\u00a0that the setting was changed by a temporary technician at one of the vote centers who was trying to find a solution to the printer issues. The setting was adjusted on the tech&#8217;s own initiative, not at the direction of the Maricopa County Elections Department, Jarrett testified.<\/p>\n<p>As test prints were done for vote centers prior to Election Day, no shrink-to-fit printer setting issues were identified,\u00a0Jarrett said. He he didn&#8217;t know if all technicians were asked about the shrink-to-fit issue.<\/p>\n<p>Jarrett testified that the printer settings were changed at only three vote centers, affecting nearly 1,300 ballots, and that no other Door 3 ballots in the county that weren&#8217;t read by tabulators had that issue. He noted that ballots from one of those vote centers had been inspected on Tuesday by Lake&#8217;s inspector, who was her cybersecurity expert during the trial, Clay Parikh.<\/p>\n<p>Parikh, however, testified on Wednesday that 14 out of 15 Election Day ballots he viewed on Tuesday from six vote centers were printed incorrectly.<\/p>\n<p>During cross-examination by Maricopa County Attorney Tom Liddy on Wednesday, Parikh was asked if a shrink-to-fit setting could have caused the issue of 19-inch ballots being printed on 20-inch paper. Parikh said it was possible but that it would&#8217;ve violated the configuration settings for the voting systems and the tabulators.<\/p>\n<p>On redirect by legal counsel for the defendants on Thursday, Jarrett said that the shrink-to-fit printer setting issue had occurred during three prior elections: the August 2020 primary election, November 2020 general election, and the August 2022 primary election.<\/p>\n<p>Jarrett didn&#8217;t mention the shrink-to-fit setting when asked about printer settings on Wednesday, but said on Thursday under cross-examination by Lake&#8217;s legal counsel that it was because he wasn&#8217;t specifically asked about it.<\/p>\n<p>During direct examination by Lake attorney Kurt Olsen on Wednesday, Jarrett testified that he hadn&#8217;t heard reports of 19-inch ballots being printed on 20-inch paper during the general election and that there was no 19-inch ballot design for the November election.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, Jarrett revealed that another printer issue\u00a0found by Maricopa County&#8217;s root cause analysis was that the heat settings weren&#8217;t high enough to correctly print the marks the tabulators needed to scan. He testified that any ballots that couldn&#8217;t be read by machines at vote centers but were put into Door 3 were later duplicated on new ballots and tabulated at the Maricopa County Tabulation and Election Center (MCTEC).<\/p>\n<p>The judge in the trial is expected to reach a decision in the case before January.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A top Maricopa County elections official\u00a0admitted Thursday in the Kari Lake election challenge\u00a0trial\u00a0that incorrect Election Day changes to\u00a0ballot-on-demand printer settings were a factor in ballots being rejected by tabulators. Lake, the 2022 Arizona GOP gubernatorial nominee, is suing her Democratic opponent, Governor-elect and Secretary of State Katie Hobbs; Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer; the county &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1778495,"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":[6962,9807,5458,7281,3662,7660,3728,5952,3661,4808,11369,6336,3819,4005,11367,11368],"class_list":["post-1784746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report","tag-the","tag-ballots","tag-bongino","tag-changed","tag-county","tag-day","tag-election","tag-linked","tag-maricopa","tag-official","tag-printer","tag-rejecting","tag-report","tag-says","tag-settings","tag-tabulators"],"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\/1784746","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=1784746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1784746\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1778495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1784746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1784746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1784746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}