Midterm election day is here and in Maricopa County, Arizona, there have been issues with some of the machines.
The Wall Street Journal reported that there are 223 voting stations in Maricopa County (the county that holds Phoenix), but that about a fifth of the locations are having problems with the voting tabulation machines.
Maricopa County officials told KSAZ-TV that technicians have been sent out to try to fix the machines.
Meanwhile, Bill Gates (not the billionaire), who is the chairman of the county board of supervisors, announced that everyone is still able to vote, the Journal reported.
“Everyone is still getting to vote; no one is being disenfranchised. This is a technical issue and we have a redundancy for it,” Gates said.
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Gates and Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer also fully explained the situation in a video posted to Twitter.
Gates also tweeted that there are different options for voters who go to a location that has faulty machines.
Should states do away with tabulation machines?
“If you’re at a polling place experiencing an issue with a tabulator, you have three options & your vote will be counted in each. 1) stay where you are and wait for tabulator to come online 2) drop your ballot in the secure slot (door 3) on tabulator 3) go to a nearby vote center,” Gates tweeted.
Should states do away with tabulation machines?
“If you’re at a polling place experiencing an issue with a tabulator, you have three options & your vote will be counted in each. 1) stay where you are and wait for tabulator to come online 2) drop your ballot in the secure slot (door 3) on tabulator 3) go to a nearby vote center,” Gates tweeted.
“Ok Central Christian voting station in Mesa on Lindsey and Brown the machines are broken, we got turned away! Unacceptable!!” one user tweeted:
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I remember those old mechanical tubulation machines they dragged out of the school basement once a year.
ReplyDeleteFunny how they never failed to work, we knew by the 11pm news who won. Every damn year. Never a problem. I can see why we got rid of them. Prolly was prit'near impossible to cheat on them!
Because the tabulation was where they wanted it!
ReplyDeleteThe electronic machines need to find their way to the local landfill! The problem is that politicians of all stripes do not have the will to change back to paper ballots. The race in Arizona mirrored in many ways the 2020 Presidential race. Voting machines stop working correctly and tallies are in limbo. Kari Lake wanted to debate and she was very visible actively campaigning while her opponent dodged the debates. Her opponent didn’t seem to be concerned about the outcome just like Biden in 2020. Her opponent just had to wait for the hand behind the curtain to do their job! As soon as the news reported trouble in Maricopa county I knew that we were not in Kansas any more.
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