Election Day: Arizona voting tabulators down at 20% of Maricopa County sites

[Valletta]

The county's Twitter account released a video showing elections board chairman Bill Gates and county recorder Stephen Richer explaining the issue and that uncounted ballots would be transported to a central location to be tabulated.

A campaign account for Republican gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake sarcastically responded to the county's tweet, saying, "So the votes get to be tabulated at a second location because you guys can't do your jobs right. That makes us feel so much better."
Election Day polling problems: Arizona voting tabulators down at 20% of Maricopa County sites

 

[GreatLakes4Ever]

The county's Twitter account released a video showing elections board chairman Bill Gates and county recorder Stephen Richer explaining the issue and that uncounted ballots would be transported to a central location to be tabulated.

A campaign account for Republican gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake sarcastically responded to the county's tweet, saying, "So the votes get to be tabulated at a second location because you guys can't do your jobs right. That makes us feel so much better."
Election Day polling problems: Arizona voting tabulators down at 20% of Maricopa County sites

Anything fishy happens to those ballots, it is lifelong Republican CHAIRMAN Bill Gates Biography | Maricopa County, AZ Bill Gates’s finger prints on them. Are Republicans trying to purposely taint the election because they know they can’t win? Gates creates a problem, Lake cries about it, and then Republicans have something to point to when Democrats take the state.

 

[Valletta]

Anything fishy happens to those ballots, it is lifelong Republican CHAIRMAN Bill Gates Biography | Maricopa County, AZ Bill Gates’s finger prints on them. Are Republicans trying to purposely taint the election because they know they can’t win? Gates creates a problem, Lake cries about it, and then Republicans have something to point to when Democrats take the state.

There are Republicans and then there are Republicans. Mitch McConnell does more for the Democrats in the Senate than does the average Democrat senator.

 

[GreatLakes4Ever]

There are Republicans and then there are Republicans. Mitch McConnell does more for the Democrats in the Senate than does the average Democrat senator.

Who died and made you the arbiter of who is a “Republican” and who is a “Republican”?

 

[wing2000]

The county's Twitter account released a video showing elections board chairman Bill Gates and county recorder Stephen Richer explaining the issue and that uncounted ballots would be transported to a central location to be tabulated.

A campaign account for Republican gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake sarcastically responded to the county's tweet, saying, "So the votes get to be tabulated at a second location because you guys can't do your jobs right. That makes us feel so much better."
Election Day polling problems: Arizona voting tabulators down at 20% of Maricopa County sites

...right on cue.

 

[wing2000]

10:30 a.m.: Techs trying to determine why tabulators not working
Maricopa County officials said technicians were trying to determine why ballot tabulators at about 20% of voting locations — about 40 of 223 voting centers — are experiencing problems.

"We have techs out there. We’re doing what we can to get them back online," said Maricopa County Board of Supervisors Chairman Bill Gates during an impromptu news conference Tuesday morning.

Gates said the issues were not centered in one particular geographical area but were "dispersed" throughout the state's most populous county.

Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer said the county has not experienced this particular issue with tabulators in previous elections.

County officials are advising voters to place their ballots in a secure drop box called "Door No. 3" at the polling site if the tabulator is not working. Those ballots will remain secure and will be taken when voting ends after 7 p.m. and delivered by a bipartisan team to the county's election tabulation center.

Richer said this is similar to the process used by other Arizona counties.

"Everyone is still getting to vote," Gates said. "Nobody is being disenfranchised, and we’ve got redundancies in place."

At polling sites, Maricopa County voters fill out paper ballots and then insert their ballots into on-site tabulators. The tabulators count the votes and save both the ballots and the results.

Election Day 2022 in Arizona: Live voting updates across the state

 

[wing2000]

There are Republicans and then there are Republicans. Mitch McConnell does more for the Democrats in the Senate than does the average Democrat senator.

There are Americans who support our elections....and then there are Americans like Ms Lake and Mr Masters - who sow doubt and mistrust in our election system.

 

[Arcangl86]

There are Republicans and then there are Republicans. Mitch McConnell does more for the Democrats in the Senate than does the average Democrat senator.

The average Democratic senator votes to support the Democratic agenda and bills pushed by Biden. What does Senator McConnell do that is more useful than that?

 

[ThatRobGuy]

The average Democratic senator votes to support the Democratic agenda and bills pushed by Biden. What does Senator McConnell do that is more useful than that?

Evidently in the eyes of some, "they gave less than 100% loyalty to Donald Trump by disagreeing with him a few times over a period of 4 years, and didn't want to bend the knee & say the election was stolen in order to stay in his good graces" equates to them being "basically a democrat".

 

[Tuur]

10:30 a.m.: Techs trying to determine why tabulators not working
Maricopa County officials said technicians were trying to determine why ballot tabulators at about 20% of voting locations — about 40 of 223 voting centers — are experiencing problems.

"We have techs out there. We’re doing what we can to get them back online," said Maricopa County Board of Supervisors Chairman Bill Gates during an impromptu news conference Tuesday morning.

Gates said the issues were not centered in one particular geographical area but were "dispersed" throughout the state's most populous county.

Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer said the county has not experienced this particular issue with tabulators in previous elections.

County officials are advising voters to place their ballots in a secure drop box called "Door No. 3" at the polling site if the tabulator is not working. Those ballots will remain secure and will be taken when voting ends after 7 p.m. and delivered by a bipartisan team to the county's election tabulation center.

Richer said this is similar to the process used by other Arizona counties.

"Everyone is still getting to vote," Gates said. "Nobody is being disenfranchised, and we’ve got redundancies in place."

At polling sites, Maricopa County voters fill out paper ballots and then insert their ballots into on-site tabulators. The tabulators count the votes and save both the ballots and the results.

Election Day 2022 in Arizona: Live voting updates across the state

The good news is that it's the tabulators and not the ballots. The ballots still exist, so it should be possible to put them into other tabulators, if necessary.

Ran into a flaky tabulator today. Some ballots it would read just fine; others you had to turn around and finagle for it to read. Mine was one of the latter.

 

[Nithavela]

Another reason why I think just handing-counting the ballots is a way better thing.

 

[Nithavela]

Anything fishy happens to those ballots, it is lifelong Republican CHAIRMAN Bill Gates Biography | Maricopa County, AZ Bill Gates’s finger prints on them. Are Republicans trying to purposely taint the election because they know they can’t win? Gates creates a problem, Lake cries about it, and then Republicans have something to point to when Democrats take the state.

I would prefer to think that it's just a technical issue. It's bound to happen sometimes in such a huge undertaking.

Won't stop some republicans and conspiracy theorists from trying to spin it their way, of course.

 

[Valletta]

I would prefer to think that it's just a technical issue. It's bound to happen sometimes in such a huge undertaking.

Won't stop some republicans and conspiracy theorists from trying to spin it their way, of course.

20% of machines is not acceptable. Scanning technology has been around for decades and and one of the simplest computer programs is a mere count.

 

[Brihaha]

This was to be expected. Especially when the state allowed and paid an incompetent Cyber Ninja company to "audit" the last election. Expect more incompetence if confrontational instigator Lake is elected governor. It seems quite disturbing that voters would actually prefer to vote for someone who said this morning she would be their worst nightmare. I mean do all Arizona voters lick the toads hahaha?

 

[Danthemailman]

And here we go again...

 

[Valletta]

This was to be expected. Especially when the state allowed and paid an incompetent Cyber Ninja company to "audit" the last election. Expect more incompetence if confrontational instigator Lake is elected governor. It seems quite disturbing that voters would actually prefer to vote for someone who said this morning she would be their worst nightmare. I mean do all Arizona voters lick the toads hahaha?

Expected? After auditors pointed out flaws in the system, and also the questionable deletion of records, the best these people can do is have 20% of their machines break down?

 

[Tuur]

20% of machines is not acceptable. Scanning technology has been around for decades and and one of the simplest computer programs is a mere count.

Yes, it's unacceptable. Unfortunately, Murphey's Third Law seems to be a real thing. Such as the time we had routine maintenance that became an hours long saga.

 

[Tuur]

I would prefer to think that it's just a technical issue. It's bound to happen sometimes in such a huge undertaking.

Won't stop some republicans and conspiracy theorists from trying to spin it their way, of course.

Heh. Back in the 1970s, there was some town that had a recount in a close election. Except the ballot reader returned a different result every time it went through the ballots.

 

[Brihaha]

Expected? After auditors pointed out flaws in the system, and also the questionable deletion of records, the best these people can do is have 20% of their machines break down?

Yes. We mechanics understand not to "fix" something that isn't broken. Arizona hasn't even mopped up their Cyber Ninja joke yet and the next election is about over. Get used to it is my advice.

 

[wing2000]

20% of machines is not acceptable. Scanning technology has been around for decades and and one of the simplest computer programs is a mere count.

Ever use a printer? They still use ink....
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.@maricopavote has identified the solution for the tabulation issues at about 60 Vote Centers. County technicians have changed the printer settings, which seems to have resolved this issue. It appears some of the printers were not producing dark enough timing marks on ballots. 1/
2:06 PM · Nov 8, 2022




This is what you get when paper ballots are required.