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‘It was a nightmare’: Pinal County builds new elections space after cramped quarters contribute to errors
Construction is under way on a $29 million, 53,000-square-foot elections center in the nearby county seat of Florence, which will have more than enough room to keep voter registration, early voting, and Election Day activities under one roof.
Arizona voters were told the election went fine. Records show a county director saw glaring errors, cashed out, then fled.
The supervisors made it easy for her: They didn’t ask her any questions, voting unanimously to certify the results. She got her bonus, and quickly moved to an East Texas town with fewer than 1,000 residents. It would be another month before Arizona voters learned what internal evidence already showed — that Ross had botched the count in a way that excluded hundreds of votes from the original r[...]
After disastrous primary, Pinal County overhauls system
Pinal County, where a disastrous primary season was one of the year's biggest U.S. election debacles, has gotten on track for successful midterm voting, an expert said October 19.
All mail election debate gets new life, spurred by virus
A fight is brewing in Arizona over whether to switch to an all-mail ballot for the primary and general election in order to combat the spread of COVID-19.
