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I'm glad some people are becoming more comfortable and accepting of poll watchers.
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...it turns out, misconfigured printers were not the only issue contributing to rejected ballots by the tabulators:
In Maricopa County, printers at polling sites produce ballots on demand so that voters can vote at any location in the county. Officials determined on Election Day that formatting marks and text on some ballots produced by printers weren’t being printed dark enough for the tabulators to read.
The issues affected about 30% of polling sites and about 6% of the total Election Day ballots cast.
But officials are seeing that some of the ballots that ended up in "door 3" aren't there because of printer problems, bringing down their initial estimates of a maximum of 17,000 ballots impacted.
Instead, some have been sent to adjudication boards, which review ballots that can't be read by tabulators, because voters used ballpoint pens to check or cross out ballot bubbles.
"They're bringing their own pens," Jarrett said. "And that happens to be a ballpoint pen that is very thin. It won't fill in the oval sufficiently or, if they are choosing to vote with checkmarks, then it won't fill in a sufficient amount of the oval to register as a vote that our tabulator can read."
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It seems some voters resisted using a felt tip marker....Papermate in this case, not sharpies...
Specifically, they've [county officials] asked voters to use county-issued pens at the polls. Those felt-tip markers dry faster, officials say, which ensures pen ink doesn't gunk up the on-site tabulators as ballots go through them minutes after being marked.
This time around, the county pens were PaperMate brand felt-tips, similar to previous felt-tip pens provided for voters in past elections.
But some voters eschewed the markers.
A vote center in Sun City West saw a group of Republicans hand out brand-new ballpoints, and officials said people pilfered county-issued pens at least one polling place.
Voter misinformation contributed to 'door 3' numbers, officials say
In Maricopa County, printers at polling sites produce ballots on demand so that voters can vote at any location in the county. Officials determined on Election Day that formatting marks and text on some ballots produced by printers weren’t being printed dark enough for the tabulators to read.
The issues affected about 30% of polling sites and about 6% of the total Election Day ballots cast.
But officials are seeing that some of the ballots that ended up in "door 3" aren't there because of printer problems, bringing down their initial estimates of a maximum of 17,000 ballots impacted.
Instead, some have been sent to adjudication boards, which review ballots that can't be read by tabulators, because voters used ballpoint pens to check or cross out ballot bubbles.
"They're bringing their own pens," Jarrett said. "And that happens to be a ballpoint pen that is very thin. It won't fill in the oval sufficiently or, if they are choosing to vote with checkmarks, then it won't fill in a sufficient amount of the oval to register as a vote that our tabulator can read."
***
It seems some voters resisted using a felt tip marker....Papermate in this case, not sharpies...
Specifically, they've [county officials] asked voters to use county-issued pens at the polls. Those felt-tip markers dry faster, officials say, which ensures pen ink doesn't gunk up the on-site tabulators as ballots go through them minutes after being marked.
This time around, the county pens were PaperMate brand felt-tips, similar to previous felt-tip pens provided for voters in past elections.
But some voters eschewed the markers.
A vote center in Sun City West saw a group of Republicans hand out brand-new ballpoints, and officials said people pilfered county-issued pens at least one polling place.
Voter misinformation contributed to 'door 3' numbers, officials say
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