Arizona audit: Recount of Maricopa County election packs up shop for now

The floor of Veterans Memorial Coliseum was largely empty Friday after three weeks of people recounting Maricopa County’s general election ballots.

They made it through just less than a quarter of the 2.1 million ballots in that time, despite originally planning to wrap up the Arizona Senate-ordered audit today.

Instead, the ballots and equipment are being hauled to the Wesley Bolin Building on the south end of the state fairgrounds, west of the cattle barns. After a week of high school graduations at the coliseum, the recount is expected to pick back up there on May 24 and run through June.

Here we give you a daily update and catch you up on the ongoing state Senate-ordered audit of the county’s presidential and U.S. Senate races in the November general election.