Arizona Republicans in Mohave County wanted to hand-count ballots. Then they saw the price tag — and the errors.

[essentialsaltes]

An Arizona county has decided not to hand-count its ballots in next year’s elections, after discovering that it would cost more than a million dollars and leave it with inaccurate results.

The test run took place in late June, when elections workers spent three days hand-counting a batch of 850 test ballots from the 2022 election, bringing in seven part-time staffers eight-hour days of counting and four full-time staffers who monitored the process.

Elections Director Allen Tempert told the Board of Supervisors at a Tuesday meeting that the group was a “dream team” of experienced staffers, but the feasibility study nonetheless went poorly. They made errors in 46 races.

 

[wing2000]

An Arizona county has decided not to hand-count its ballots in next year’s elections, after discovering that it would cost more than a million dollars and leave it with inaccurate results.

The test run took place in late June, when elections workers spent three days hand-counting a batch of 850 test ballots from the 2022 election, bringing in seven part-time staffers eight-hour days of counting and four full-time staffers who monitored the process.

Elections Director Allen Tempert told the Board of Supervisors at a Tuesday meeting that the group was a “dream team” of experienced staffers, but the feasibility study nonetheless went poorly. They made errors in 46 races.

...they could have saved themselves a lot of time and expense if they had just listened....oh nm.

 

[KCfromNC]

At some point people are going to catch on to how badly right wing talking points fare against actual reality.
Hopefully.
Maybe?

 

[Pommer]

At some point people are going to catch on to how badly right wing talking points fare against actual reality.
Hopefully.
Maybe?

111 years of continuing to improve how elections are conducted and the “wisdom” says let’s do it like we did 111 years ago!

 

[A2SG]

At some point people are going to catch on to how badly right wing talking points fare against actual reality.
Hopefully.
Maybe?

That would require at least a passing familiarity with reality. Something the current right wing seems to completely avoid.

-- A2SG, alternative facts, anyone?

 

[FireDragon76]

That would require at least a passing familiarity with reality. Something the current right wing seems to completely avoid.

-- A2SG, alternative facts, anyone?

When you throw out real expertise in favor of the folk wisdom of some of the least educated people in society, you can't expect much better.

 

[keith99]

To be fair these guys do not deserve to be mocked. Yes they were wildly wrong, but unlike 99% of those who favor that mistake, they were smart enough to run a test and rational enough to accept the results of the test when it turned out differently then they hoped.

 

[iluvatar5150]

To be fair these guys do not deserve to be mocked. Yes they were wildly wrong, but unlike 99% of those who favor that mistake, they were smart enough to run a test and rational enough to accept the results of the test when it turned out differently then they hoped.

Only barely. The board voted on the measure 3-2.