Residents Blast Maricopa County Board Of Supervisors For Disenfranchising Voters, Gross Incompetence

November 16, 2022 ADI Staff Reporter
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Maricopa County Supervisor Bill Gates

On Wednesday, the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors heard from members of the public who are outraged over the Board’s mishandling of the 2020 General Election. The Supervisors, who oversee the Elections Department, are ultimately responsible for the voter disenfranchisement that occurred on Election Day.

While few speakers praised the supervisors, the vast majority complained about the gross mismanagement by the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors and their Elections Department. Most speakers referenced the approximately 17,000 ballots were unable to be counted on Election Day, as well as the unknown but substantial number of voters who gave up on the process and left without casting a ballot.

Normally, Election Day ballots are counted as they are cast, and reported in the hours shortly after the polls close, however, these 17,000 ballots were not counted due to the fact that the tabulators at polling sites could not read them. Voters with the problematic ballots were forced to place them in a separate box on the tabulators on the promise that they would eventually be counted, but that count was delayed for days for reasons still unknown to the general public.

A number of speakers joined the call for Board Chairman Supervisor Bill Gates to resign. Others questioned how Gates and Recorder Stephen Richer could claim the impartiality needed for the management of elections when they supported an anti-conservative PAC with the purpose of opposing Trump endorsed candidates.

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