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Unfounded? There have been all kinds of problems in Maricopa, started early Tuesday. It's a complete mess.
Spoken like you just finish a glass of election denial Kool Aid
here's the truth! Problems with voting machines in Arizona’s Maricopa County trigger unfounded fraud claims yep Jim carrying the message again
The issue was affecting about a quarter of voting locations, officials said. No one was being prevented from voting, and lines were short in many locations.
County officials stressed that no one was being prevented from voting and that no one’s ballot had been mishandled. They have said for weeks that ballot counting could take as many as 12 days.
Fuel for baseless right-wing claims
The issues with the tabulators were quickly used by right-leaning influencers as fuel for their claims that the 2022 midterms are vulnerable to election fraud, according to the Election Integrity Partnership, a research coalition that focuses on misinformation around elections.
"Attention spiked after a tweet from Charlie Kirk, which fueled others who allege that these machine failures are deliberate," the research group said.
maricopa county just happens to represents more than 60 percent of Arizona's registered voters.
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