The primary election saw some issues with the debut of new polling technology, but the elections department is planning changes before the general election.
Nicole Ludden After the premiere of new voting technology this year, Pima County election officials have reviewed issues faced during the primary election and made plans some changes before the general election in November.
Get the latest 2022 election news with the Star's Election Roundup newsletterPima County Elections Director Constance Hargrove detailed problems encountered during the primaries and solutions to address them in a 17-page “after-action report” requested by the county’s Board of Supervisors. In an interview after the board’s meeting, Supervisor Rex Scott, who has continuously expressed his confidence in the county’s elections system, said: “I think was very candid and transparent about what they needed to do better. She had an action plan for all those areas and all the subsets under those areas. So I think we are in very good hands.”
But according to the after-action report, provisional ballots increased to 4,368 this year compared to 4,206 in the 2018 primary election. About 90% of those provisional votes were from those on the early voting list due to a state law that requires voters who received an early ballot to vote provisionally, the report says.
Only one voter was checked in more than once, the report says, but did not vote twice after a poll worker spoiled the original ballot after realizing the error. Some poll workers didn't understand how to close the polls and packed away e-pollbooks before recording the information in the Official Ballot Report, while others didn't permit observers in the centers, a process that's allowed by state law.
Other vote centers ran out of envelopes that provisional ballots must be placed in, but late delivery of the envelopes to the elections department delayed the envelopes’ arrival to vote centers to the morning of the election. According to the report, this caused delays at three vote centers.
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