Election officials said Maricopa County voters who wanted to vote in person Nov. 8 could, despite election equipment issues at some vote centers. Voting rights experts rebutted claims that voters were disenfranchised.
Kari Lake, Arizona Republican candidate for governor, cheers with her supporters at the Republican watch party in Scottsdale, Ariz., Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2022. Kari Lake claimed thousands of Maricopa County voters were disenfranchised because of ballot counting equipment issues Nov. 8.
Republican Kari Lake shared a video on Twitter saying she remained "in the fight" to become Arizona’s next governor and claiming that voters had been disenfranchised in Maricopa County. Three days earlier, media organizations projected that Democrat Katie Hobbs, Arizona’s secretary of state, had won the closely watched gubernatorial contest.
The equipment malfunction was real — and inconvenienced some voters. Those voters were still given options to vote, however. In Maricopa County, voters typically feed their completed ballots into tabulator machines to count ballots; optical scanners record each vote. It is normally the last step for in-person voters. at some county vote centers stopped taking some or all ballots. The issue affected about 70 of the county’s 223 vote centers that opened that day.
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