Did Maricopa County experience problems with voting machines on Election Day?
On Election Day, about 20% of voting locations in Maricopa County experienced malfunctions with ballot tabulation machines, which use scanners to record votes.
Maricopa County Board of Supervisors Chairman Bill Gates stated that voting machines were rejecting one out of every five ballots inserted into the tabulator the morning of Election Day. Yet, “None of this indicates any fraud or anything of that sort,” he said at a press conference.
Voters impacted by malfunctioning ballot tabulators were still able to vote by submitting their ballot in a secure dropbox, which would be counted by election officials after polls close, or by going to another location.
Maricopa County reported that some printers were not producing dark enough timing marks on the ballots and that changing the printer settings appears to resolve the issue, although the situation is still ongoing.
