PHOENIX — Problems with dozens of electronic vote\u002Dcounting machines in the battleground state of Arizona on Tuesday were seized upon by Republican former…
Just a few hours into Election Day, Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer told reporters that about 20% of electronic vote tabulation machines in the state’s most populous county were malfunctioning, and technicians were being deployed to fix them.Sign up to receive daily headline news from Ottawa Citizen, a division of Postmedia Network Inc.By clicking on the sign up button you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc.
The state’s Republican gubernatorial candidate, Kari Lake, also seized on the machine problems, issuing a “voter alert” on her Twitter account. Lake has echoed Trump’s false claims that the 2020 presidential election was stolen from him through widespread voting fraud. Trump posted a video to his Truth Social platform urging people in Arizona to “stay on line” if they were facing delays in voting.
Trump, Lake and others have been calling for Election Day-only voting and for the end of electronic voting machines, promoting instead the use of just paper ballots and hand counts a process that is time-consuming, costly and far less accurate than machine counting.
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