home to Phoenix, the vote counting unfolds inside a gargantuan downtown building resembling a warehouse. Security officers monitor who comes and goes, and workers wearing blue latex gloves furiously sort ballot envelopes while ’80s pop and ’90s hip-hop blares. A track recently in rotation: Montell Jordan’s “This Is How We Do It.”
The attention is unprecedented in this county, which in 2020 was central to attempts by Donald Trump and his supporters to overturn the former president’s loss. Anticipating a maelstrom during the 2022 election, the county’s governing board and election officials worked for months to try to set public expectations for how the November results would roll out.
“Here is the issue. We have so many close races that everyone is still paying attention to Maricopa County,” Bill Gates, the Republican chair of the Maricopa County governing board, told reporters packed into the lobby this week. “Those other states, like Florida, those races were blowouts, no one is paying attention.” It is not a criticism, he said, but “this is how we do things in Maricopa County. We follow the law. These are the laws that were put in place by the state legislature.
It has been offered for decades, and it is popular. In Maricopa County, about 80 percent of voters asked for early ballots that can be mailed, put in secure drop boxes, or handed in
Because they ballot harvest
ABSOLUTELY UNACCEPTABLE
Michigan has early voting, and we've been done since the day after we voted. Try another line of BS.
online_trade12
You realize that makes Zero sense..because of “early” voting..Still..this is all quite embarrassing..it’s Sunday. The election was Tuesday. “Greatest country in the world” Eh..now that’s funny
If 75% think the country under Democrats is going the wrong direction… the election results don’t jive !
Your country is an oligarchy.
Encouraging voter participation by offering choices is a win for democracy. We just have to adjust our expectations and be patient.
Oh please Washington Post..If you don't have the answer do not write a poor excuse..Nothing to do with early voting but potential voter fraud.
Because there is fraud?
Then stop early voting!
Not every state that does early voting has the same issue
Many states have early voting. No excuse
Early voting by machine or by mail in ballots? These are very different processes in terms of the time it takes. Kudos to our election officials for having the patience to make sure this is done right.
mehdirhasan 😂🤡😂🤡😂🤡 worse than a 3rd world country
1 word. Mismanagement. Its Saturday and there are races in California where 60% of the vote is left to count. Its always the same places every election. There are other places that count votes very well. Florida learned a lesson in 2000. Something is broken with the system
mehdirhasan Bull....
Two words: Fraud. Corruption.
mehdirhasan Two words: Under. staffing.
They only have one job. It's not brain surgery or rocket science.
Really? We have early voting. The counting was in and winners announced by midnight. hmmm
mehdirhasan Herschel counting?
mehdirhasan That’s such an extreme oversimplification as to make the statement outright wrong.
Common my granny’s anus... DemocratsCheat Democrats
Two words. Election fraud.
3 words: vote fraud. VoteFraud MaricopaCounty
Maricopa County is becoming very famous or infamous!!
One word. Fraud.
Two words: Bull. Feces.
Texas will not publish the results. Abbott won in 2hrs after the pols closed & Texas are a big military state & retiree state. Something seems to be amiss in Texas.
How about: Early. Counting.
Early voting that is counted last. Why not do it like other states. start counting them a few days ahead. Nah, every state has to do it differently.
Words don't get a period after them. Sentences. Do.
Yet there was never a problem until: Katie Hobbs Why? There was early voting before. But suddenly it's just too hard to do what was previously routine.
2 words. Repugnican legislature.
Corruption.
Two Words: Dems Cheating!
Two words 'HIRE MORE'
because they're corrupt,..
Because Katie Hobbs is in charge.
Going Forward . . . Election Reform
WaPo. What kinda fools do you think we are.
Florida has early voting. We finished in one day.
One word...'fortifying'
Straight up embarrassing. Every state has early voting. These elections are turning into untrustworthy shams. What does it mean to vote anymore?
WaPo is basically Vox now.
Cheating takes time
Actually, counting continues in likely all election offices around the country (E.g., in addition to counting all regular and mail in ballots, military and overseas ballots may still be being counted). The races that are not called yet are simply those still too close to call.
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