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Monday, Nov. 4, 2024

Could it take two weeks to count all Arizona ballots in the 2024 general election?

Carmela Guaglianone, Arizona Center for Investigative Reporting
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Certain state election rules, such as those requiring that early ballots returned on Election Day be signature-verified, scanned and counted after polls close, can also slow the process. In the 2022 midterms, these so-called “late earlies” represented one-fifth of all ballots, leaving hundreds of thousands of envelopes to be processed post-election. Arizona also gives voters five days to “cure” problems with their ballots, including signature verification issues, after they are received.

Correction: A prior version of this brief misstated the scope of “late earlies” in the 2022 midterms.

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