Arizona

We preemptively alert the County that the historic two-page double-sided ballot, densely filled with paragraph-long propositions will be difficult to fill out and so risks long lines, voter frustration, and voter suppression as people abandon the lines. Ballot voting trials, past vote center traffic, and peak voting patterns are used to argue the risks. Solutions […]

Prior to the 2022 General Election, Secretary of State Hobbs admonished Cochise County that any deviation from the EPM would be unlawful. But just one month later, Hobbs chose to disregard Maricopa County’s admitted deviations from the EPM and violations of law as she oversaw and certified her own election. Long withheld documents show a […]

Long Withheld Records Reveal More than 20,000 Mail Ballots Received After the Legal Deadline Maricopa County withheld requested public documents for nearly seven months. These documents show 18,000 additional late ballots not previously reported. Several contests were decided by less than 20K votes, most notably the statewide presidential race that was decided by only 10,457. […]

Verity Vote found over 56,000 Maricopa County live ballots were undeliverable. Those ballots are election materials that The Recorders Office admits they did not retain. The law requires that election materials be retained. To Download the Report Discarded unvoted election materials present an invitation to illegal voting. This is well-illustrated by Stephen Richer’s review of […]

740,000 Ballots Have No Documented Chain of Custody. Verity Vote conducted an investigation of Maricopa County’s ballot chain of custody for the 2020 General Election.  County records show problematic retrieval of early voting ballots from vote centers and drop box locations. Numerous violations of Arizona election law are revealed.  The violations identified are important because […]