Thread by @maricopacounty

Looks like there’s a lot of interest in Maricopa County #elections again. Let’s take some questions and comments from the audience.
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It is precisely because of law and order that we don’t finish tabulation until several days after the election. Please see ARS 16-550. Or would you prefer us to tell legitimate registered voters that we’re choosing not to follow that section of the law?
azleg.gov/ars/16/00550.h…

On 8/3, we starting verifying signatures on 122K early ballots that were not received until Election Day. State law is pretty clear that we should make sure signatures match on these ballots before counting them as valid. So yeah, it was reasonable to prioritize that.

We did not invent the election system any more than we invented the internet. The AZ Legislature makes the laws that govern elections and we follow those laws. Current law allows for early (mail-in) ballots to be received until the polls close on Election Day.

We would invite you to continue this conversation with your state legislator, who is responsible for making the laws that we follow. Also (and this is not a secret), everyone votes on a paper ballot in Maricopa County.

“Get your manure here” is a tagline we hadn’t considered. But you should know that election departments don’t “call” races. We process ballots & report results. If other people want to speculate about winners & losers before all ballots have been processed, that’s their business.

Counting is not the same as reporting. We never stopped counting. We reported additional results last night & will do so each day until all of the ballots have been processed. But kudos on your knowledge of Ugandan election administration.

Please share the specific ways you think they’ve neglected their duties with the appropriate citations to state law and election procedures. Thank you.

We’re a little bit rusty on that section. Maybe because we’ve chosen, instead, to train our election workers instead on the laws and manuals related to ELECTIONS.
Feel free to look through this manual as it seems more relevant to the topic: azsos.gov/sites/default/…

This is actually a statement of fact as you have 0 followers.

Bottom line: Law doesn't allow us to collect early ballots on Election Day until after polls close. Our teams transported, scanned, & processed these ballots until early AM (8/3) to prepare for signature verification. Now, we process the verified ballots & follow up on others.