Opinion from stephen_richer and billgatesaz: Maricopa County produced faster than normal election results, despite record turnout. But there's one way to speed this process even more.
Judged by the traditional rubric for election administration, Maricopa County’s August 2022 primary was a major success.We mailed out, on time, 1.4 million accurately printed ballots.Every single voting location opened on time for all 27 days of the voting period.We hosted the most political observers ever – Republicans, Democrats and Libertarians.We launched a new website to better inform voters.
We secure all ballots at the voting location and remove the memory drives from the tabulation devices and put them in tamper-evident, secure packaging. We do not transmit these results from individual locations over the internet. Instead, these memory drives are transported by bipartisan drivers from the 210 voting locations to various receiving sites throughout the county.
This is frustrating to many who would like results immediately. But it is perfectly lawful to drop off early ballots on Election Day, and it is the preferred voting method of many Arizonans. However, those ballots must still go through the early ballot process described above, including signature verification. We started that process at 1 a.m. on Wednesday and continued without sleep until Friday.
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