Arizona Republicans are seizing on technical problems with ballot tabulation machines in the state’s largest county to make unsubstantiated claims about the validity of Tuesday’s elections, signaling a contentious aftermath of the 2022 midterms.
In Maricopa County, which includes Phoenix, elections officials flagged problems with ballot tabulators in about 20% of the county’s polling locations but made clear that it would not affect voters’ ability to cast a ballot.
Overall, elections watchers say there have been a few scattered problems nationally, including snafus involving voting machines in Mercer County, New Jersey; laptops used to verify voter registrations in Fort Bend County, Texas; and isolated complaints about overzealous poll observers, typical for an election in a country with more than 10,000 voting jurisdictions.
