In the afternoon, the county said it had isolated the problem: printers were not making dark enough markings on the ballots, and that it was not a software problem.īill Gates, chairman of the Maricopa County board of supervisors, and Stephen Richer, the county recorder, both Republicans, said the problems were disappointing but that voters could still cast ballots and that nobody was being denied a vote. Officials in Maricopa, one of the nation’s most populous counties and a focus of efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election, said the problem affected ballot tabulation machines in about 60 of the county’s 223 voting centers. Caitlin O'Hara for The New York TimesĪ series of technical glitches disrupted ballot counting on Tuesday at about one in four voting centers in Republican-led Maricopa County, Ariz., rekindling embers of baseless voter fraud claims in the right-wing media. Despite officials in Maricopa County assuring that problems with some ballot tabulation machines would not deny people the chance to vote, claims of voter fraud circulated on social media and in right-wing media.
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