Maricopa County, Arizona, experienced an unfortunate technical issue at various polling places on Election Day, sparking controversy and backlash from candidates and the voting public.
According to Fox News, voters ran into serious problems due to malfunctioning tabulation machines shortly after the polls opened on Election Day, preventing many from having the ability to have their ballots properly registered. Maricopa County Supervisor Bill Gates, during a Wednesday morning news conference, clarified the situation and apologized to the public.
“Apologized yesterday. I will do it again today. What happened yesterday we cannot have a repeat of. We are already looking very closely at what happened. Obviously, our team was able to come up with a fix yesterday for what happened, so that allowed those votes centers to get back online,” Gates said.
Gates confirmed that of the roughly 250,000 in-person votes cast on Election Day, the “lion’s share” of them had been officially counted and reported, but about 17,000 ballots — or 7 percent — that were held in drop boxes had not been counted.
He added, “But again, we are going to do a deep dive on this. This board will get to the bottom of exactly what happened, and we will do what needs to be done.”
Gates also said he expects up to 99 percent of the election results to be made public by Friday, with several dumps of new data being released each night until then.
Maricopa County officials verified through the county’s official Twitter account that the printer issues experienced after the polls opened resulted from special printers having the wrong “settings.”
Crooked county needs to be Prosecuted !!! Democrats cheat again like 2020 !!
Shocking number of Republican votes will go to Democrats by the Crooked Machines !!!! Like 2020
Shocking that this is a WEEK after the Elections & Still not Done counting !!!! ALL a Democrat COUP !!!!