County under a cloud: Maricopa's decade-long history of election issues, from 2012 to 2022

[Valletta]

The current recorder, Republican Stephen Richer, defeated Fontes in the 2020 election, vowing to tighten up and depoliticize the chronic maladministration of elections in the county, but after taking office he emerged as an often acerbic critic of GOP efforts to audit the disputed 2020 election in the county and tighten election security. In 2021, Richer started a political action committee, funded by Democrats, that supports Republican candidates who "acknowledge the validity of the 2020 election and condemn the events of January 6, 2021 as a terrible result of the lies told about the November election," according to a press statement announcing the PAC's creation.

Following the 2020 presidential election, the Arizona state Senate conducted an audit of the presidential election, which flagged a large number of voters who potentially voted in Maricopa and at least one other county in the state. It said 5,295 voters cast ballots in Maricopa and at least one other county using "the same first, middle, last name and birth year."

County under a cloud: Maricopa's decade-long history of election issues, from 2012 to 2022

Maricopa County's handling of elections in 2022 is "yet another disgrace in a long line of disgraces," said Arizona state Rep. Mark Finchem.

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[Don't Panic]

And he is right, the political joke that was the Cyber Ninja audit was a travesty and embarrassment for the county. The 5295 supposedly duplicate voters was a textbook example of the birthday problem which any real statistician would know.

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Not to mention that Mark Finchem is the continuation of the problems with the GOP in Arizona.
https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/

 

[Yttrium]

Following the 2020 presidential election, the Arizona state Senate conducted an audit of the presidential election, which flagged a large number of voters who potentially voted in Maricopa and at least one other county in the state. It said 5,295 voters cast ballots in Maricopa and at least one other county using "the same first, middle, last name and birth year."

You know what? It's really easy for them to go and check to see if those are different people or not. Maybe they should try doing that.

 

[wing2000]

Yes, our county has been under a cloud - a cloud of election denialism since 2020. However, those clouds are starting to clear.

 

[The Barbarian]

It seems that there were some problems. Biden's total was undercounted by about 800 votes. Even the GOP Attorney General and the "cyberninjas" admitted that Biden had been undercounted, not overcounted.