Outgoing Attorney General Mark Brnovich wants a full report due to numerous complaints from election workers, poll observers, and voters themselves, and a “comprehensive log” of all changes made to printer settings before Election Day.
Long lines at polling places in the county resulted from physical problems with vote tabulators and printers, resulting in some voters being sent to other polling locations or giving up after waiting hours only to find themselves unable to vote.
Issues with the printers were clear from the morning of Election Day, with at least 70 of the 223 polling sites having printers with problems such as printing too lightly for the ballots to be scanned, according to Maricopa County Supervisor Bill Gates.
Assistant Attorney General Jennifer Wright wrote that poll workers were not trained to deal with voters who had to leave after check-in, and that “Maricopa County appears to have failed to adhere to the statutory guidelines in segregating, counting, tabulating, tallying, and transporting” ballots.
