Employees for Arizona’s most populous county have been reassigned to help election workers with an around-the-clock operation to process early ballots that are an unusually long two pages.
Election officials in Maricopa County must verify each voter’s signature on early ballot envelopes and then remove the ballot pages so they can be prepared for actual counting. The county was unsure how long it would need to keep up the 24-hour operation, which kicked off Thursday night.
