The Maricopa County Board of Supervisors is being accused of “slow walking” the ballot counting process by gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake and others. As of Thursday, there are still more than 400,000 Maricopa ballots to be counted from Tuesday’s election.
Lakes’ attorney, Harmeet Dhillon tweeted:
To be clear: the votes received BEFORE Election Day — ones Hobbs is dribbling out — are Dems’ best batches. Votes ON Election Day — record turnout in-person & drop-off — weighted to @KariLake & that is why the large counties are faking out public by holding those. We win those.
To be clear: the votes received BEFORE Election Day — ones Hobbs is dribbling out — are Dems’ best batches. Votes ON Election Day — record turnout in-person & drop-off — weighted to @KariLake & that is why the large counties are faking out public by holding those. We win those. https://t.co/ygiQ1Ph5ZI
— Harmeet K. Dhillon (@pnjaban) November 10, 2022
Maricopa County has been the epicenter of election controversy for a number of years and its Elections Office’s confused messaging, starts and stops in counting, and refusal to be transparent, has increased distrust.
On Thursday, the Chairman of the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors, Bill Gates, complained about the criticism, while advising the public that counting will not be done until at least next Monday.
Current number of uncounted ballots:
State: 571,813
Apache 8,500
Cochise 8,662
Coconino 12,231
Gila 269
Graham 118
La Paz 1,972
Maricopa 407,664
Mohave 10,600
Pima 114,203
Pinal 16,281
Yavapai 12,458
Yuma 9,180
In the meantime, across the globe, all eyes are on Arizona as it stumbles through ballot counting.