As of over an hour ago, Maricopa County officials say they’ve figured out what was wrong with the voting machines all over the county.
They’d already begun rolling out fixes to the tabulator machines in 17 locations, according to ABC 15.
Apparently, the printers were not printing dark enough timing marks:
JUST IN: @maricopacounty has identified the issue for the 60 impacted vote centers.
The ballot on demand printers were not printing dark enough timing marks. They have rolled out a fix for 17 locations which corrected the problem.
No problems with the tabulators themselves. pic.twitter.com/n2eMLYQv6H
— The AZ – abc15 – Data Guru (@Garrett_Archer) November 8, 2022
Below is the release from the county:
This could have easily been avoided if they had done a mock election test on the printer machines, anytime before today.
All I know is that if Kari Lake wins, and it looks like she will, she’s going to have a field day with election officials as she revamps the voting process across the state.