The Last Chance Of Freedom : Maricopa County Made Arizona’s Elections Even More Of A Disaster Than People Realize

Wednesday, November 23, 2022

The Election Integrity Network sent out a survey to its on-the-ground volunteers following Election Day to gauge how things went

The responses from election workers in key battleground districts and states around the country showed a mostly calm election cycle compared to 2020
In Maricopa County, Arizona, election workers were appalled and aghast at how things had been run there
Election Day workers flooded the survey response team with stories of incompetence, chaos, and mismanagement

Unlike most states, where citizens vote at their local neighborhood-based precinct, Arizona allows for its counties to adopt a vote center model
Upon arriving at one of these centers, Maricopa voters check in by providing their state-approved ID, at which point a ballot-on-demand printer produces a ballot that is filled out by the voter and run through a vote tabulation machine.
According to the Arizona attorney general's office, many of the voters who left their original vote center without properly checking out were told upon arriving at another location that the county's e-Pollbook system had marked them as having already voted.

The Republican National Committee (RNC) and GOP attorney general candidate Abraham Hamadeh filed a lawsuit in Maricopa Superior Court against his Democratic opponent Kris Mayes, Secretary of State Katie Hobbs, and the county recorders and board of supervisors of Arizona’s 15 counties, alleging that “erroneous” vote counts resulted in the disenfranchisement of Arizona voters.
In their filing, the RNC asked the court to order “Maricopa to process and tabulate all provisional ballots and early ballots submitted by qualified electors who had ‘checked in’ at a voting center but did not cast a regular ballot”
Moreover, the plaintiffs requested an injunction be issued to prohibit or nullify any attempts to certify the results of the attorney general race.

The incredible mismanagement by Maricopa election officials potentially disenfranchised enough voters to swing the results of some of Arizona's most contested elections.
Even 84% of survey respondents are "not at all confident" that Arizona's election results are "completely accurate and honest."

Elections have consequences, so it is important that voters who want to save our democracy, should v