Some tabulators – who read and scan the bulletins, once filled by hand in the voter by the voter – have experienced failures.
by Corine Lesnes (Phoenix (Arizona), special envoy)
Sandy Hirt has been holding the fort since the opening of the polling stations, at 6 am. In this residential area in the north of the agglomeration of Phoenix, where the habitat eats away at the desert, people get up early to hit the road to the capital of Arizona. The Democratic activist installed a small table where she disposed of the candidates’ faith professions: at 75 Feet (23 m) very precisely, the distance beyond which it is prohibited to approach voters.
Sandy, a Californian retiree, is not illusions on the popularity of democrats in this conservative district, but whatever. Each arrival is praised with the same big welcoming smile. His interlocutors are not all as generous. “Democracy? You are going to love,” throws a great strong by passing in front of democratic brochures.
The polling station, installed in the Christian Academy of Standing Stones, is one of those where technical incidents were reported in the morning. At 10:30 am, managers of voting operations of the county of Maricopa (the Phoenix region), announced that in 20 % of the 223 polling stations, certain tabulators – the machines which read and scan the bulletins, once filled in The hand in the voter voter – had failures. They then admitted that the proportion was 30 %. The county supervisor, Bill Gates, a republican, endeavored to reassure the voters. A simple dysfunction, he assured. Technicians were going to arrive on site. In the meantime, voters could go to vote in other offices or drop their vote in collection boxes by mail votes. It will take 14 hours for the breakdown to be identified: a printer adjustment problem.
At the Stones Standing School, the Republicans have sneered this new incident: since the 2020 presidential election, Arizona has been the capital of the denial of the victory of Joe Biden. The accounts and recounts followed one another. On social networks, extremists are starting to shout at the attempted fraud. Donald Trump denounces an attempt to “theft of the election” on his Truth Social platform.
“It is again confusion”
The Republicans once again accuse the Secretary of State Democratic Katie Hobbs of conflict of interest. Responsible for supervising the organization of the elections, she is at the same time candidate for the post of governor, coveted by the Trumpist of Shock, the former presenter of the local antenna Fox News, Kari Lake. She asks her supporters not to leave the queues. “Another election led by clowns,” she tweet. Sure of her victory, she is already projecting herself in her second mandate: “I will be your worst nightmare for eight years,” she promises the press. We will also reform the media. We are going to make journalists again “.
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