Updated 12 hours ago Arizona’s Maricopa County Encounters Voting-Machine Problems By Alicia A. Caldwell and Eliza Collins SHARE Bill Gates, chairman of the county board of supervisors, said about one in five ballots are not being accepted by the malfunctioning machines.JOHN MOORE/GETTY IMAGES
Vote tabulation machines in about 20% of 223 voting centers in Arizona’s Maricopa County were malfunctioning and not accepting some completed ballots as designed, county officials said Tuesday.
Bill Gates, chairman of the county board of supervisors, said about one in five ballots weren’t being accepted by the malfunctioning machines in Arizona's most populous county, which includes Phoenix.
County election officials later said they were resolving the issues in vote centers by changing printer settings and technicians.
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has been in communication with state and local officials in Maricopa County and said there were no signs the problems there were due to malicious activity or deliberate sabotage, a senior agency official told reporters during a briefing.
Voters who encounter the problem are being asked to deposit their completed ballot in a secure drop box on the tabulating machine, Mr Gates said, characterizing the drop box as a redundancy.
“Everyone is still getting to vote; no one is being disenfranchised,” Mr. Gates, a Republican, said. “This is a technical issue and we have a redundancy for it.”
Ballots left in the drop box will be collected after polls close and taken to a central-vote counting center by a bipartisan team, Mr. Gates said. "The issue has been found and resolved at dozens of centers, with more constantly going back online," Mr. Gates said.
“I want every voter to know every eligible vote will be counted, whether it's at the polling place or whether it's transported securely back to headquarters and tabulated tonight," Secretary of State Katie Hobbs told The Wall Street Journal. "That's actually how most counties do their tabulation. And we have backups.”
Ms. Hobbs, the state’s chief elections administrator, is the Democratic candidate for governor.
Harmeet K. Dhillon@pnjaban Latest guidance for Maricopa County voters: If you’ve *checked in* at a Maricopa County voting location where tabulators don’t work, you should *not* leave & go to another location without casting a vote. Your provisional ballot at new location likely will not count/cont’d/
House将为共和党控制应该已无悬念，佩洛西完成历史使命行将退出政治舞台。Senete还处于胶着，如果今晚民主党险胜，将诞生美国多年来最好的联邦政局。一来，拜登根基已经开始崩溃，在当今局势下来年大选恐无胜算，二来，没了两大政敌对他身家性命的威胁，川普也1可以放心洗洗睡了，明天彻底退休打高尔夫球去，共和党便有个大好时机好好换些新鲜血液。拜登呢，有Senete挺着，也不用担心被秋后算账，美国便可以避免冤冤相报没完没了，走出怪圈面对汹涌而来的世纪挑战。拭目以待。
如果经济崩溃，失业率暴涨，那么就是另外一回事了。什么反智，反民主，阴谋轮，或者选举舞弊，勾结中共，利益输送等等，都不是上得了台面，可以决定大势的理由。选民没有那么聪明，但也没有那么蠢。
真正决定一切的是经济，经济，经济。
我觉得恶心，甚至愤怒，真的。严重怀疑那里有人故意捣乱。对排队投票的人说，机器坏了，你们投不了，把票放在那个盒子就可以回家了。 每次都是那个州最大的县出问题。这个Maricopa 县有450万人口，而亚利桑那州总人口只有727万。就这个县的选票占了全州选票的60%。 而每次选举都是投票机出问题。我不相信这是技术问题，如果只是技术问题，早就应该可以解决。 我只能说这些人胆大包天。 ================ 12 小时前更新 亚利桑那州马里科帕县遇到投票机问题 艾丽西亚·A·考德威尔和伊丽莎·柯林斯 分享
县官员周二表示，亚利桑那州马里科帕县 223 个投票中心中约有 20% 的投票制表机出现故障，无法按设计接受一些已完成的选票。
县监事会主席比尔盖茨表示，在亚利桑那州人口最多的县，包括凤凰城，故障机器没有接受大约五分之一的选票。
县选举官员后来表示，他们正在通过改变打印机设置和技术人员来解决投票中心的问题。
一位高级机构官员在简报会上告诉记者，网络安全和基础设施安全局一直在与马里科帕县的州和地方官员进行沟通，并表示没有迹象表明这些问题是由于恶意活动或蓄意破坏造成的。
盖茨先生说，遇到问题的选民被要求将填写好的选票存放在制表机上的安全投递箱中，并将投递箱描述为冗余。
“每个人都还在投票；没有人被剥夺权利，”共和党人盖茨先生说。“这是一个技术问题，我们对此有冗余。”
盖茨先生说，投票结束后将收集留在投递箱中的选票，并由两党团队带到中央计票中心。盖茨先生说：“这个问题已经在几十个中心被发现并得到解决，更多的是不断地重新上线。”
国务卿凯蒂·霍布斯对《华尔街日报》说：“我希望每位选民都知道每一张符合条件的选票都会被计算在内，无论是在投票站还是在今晚安全运回总部并制表。”做他们的表格。我们有备份。”
该州的首席选举管理员霍布斯女士是民主党州长候选人。
Updated 12 hours ago Arizona’s Maricopa County Encounters Voting-Machine Problems By Alicia A. Caldwell and Eliza Collins SHAREVote tabulation machines in about 20% of 223 voting centers in Arizona’s Maricopa County were malfunctioning and not accepting some completed ballots as designed, county officials said Tuesday.
Bill Gates, chairman of the county board of supervisors, said about one in five ballots weren’t being accepted by the malfunctioning machines in Arizona's most populous county, which includes Phoenix.
County election officials later said they were resolving the issues in vote centers by changing printer settings and technicians.
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has been in communication with state and local officials in Maricopa County and said there were no signs the problems there were due to malicious activity or deliberate sabotage, a senior agency official told reporters during a briefing.
Voters who encounter the problem are being asked to deposit their completed ballot in a secure drop box on the tabulating machine, Mr Gates said, characterizing the drop box as a redundancy.
“Everyone is still getting to vote; no one is being disenfranchised,” Mr. Gates, a Republican, said. “This is a technical issue and we have a redundancy for it.”
Ballots left in the drop box will be collected after polls close and taken to a central-vote counting center by a bipartisan team, Mr. Gates said. "The issue has been found and resolved at dozens of centers, with more constantly going back online," Mr. Gates said.
“I want every voter to know every eligible vote will be counted, whether it's at the polling place or whether it's transported securely back to headquarters and tabulated tonight," Secretary of State Katie Hobbs told The Wall Street Journal. "That's actually how most counties do their tabulation. And we have backups.”
Ms. Hobbs, the state’s chief elections administrator, is the Democratic candidate for governor.
普通选民哪里有时间消化这么多事儿。
https://twitter.com/pnjaban/status/1590014870493466624
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川普endorse一个人，不看qualification、只看是不是川粉
保证投票日那天一切设备都能如常工作即可，就这都能干成这样，不服不行。
刚才又看到报道说，他们很可能数票要数到感恩节，甚至圣诞节
才能数完。