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Ballot envelopes sent to Pueblo County voters for the 2023 coordinated election have a hole in the middle. Here's why some candidates are concerned ....
Mail-in ballots and just run them through the tabulator. we have signature verification where we compare the signature on the outside of the ballot envelope with the signature and voter registration. that s what we must do. one of the many things we do to maintain the integrity of this election. that s what we are all focused on here. let me ask you this. the other big race that hasn t been called in arizona is the governor s race between katie hobbs and kari lake. an image from a video feed of walking through a tabulation woman. that was lake s opponent, katie hobbs. they were crying fraud. not every woman with glasses is katie hobbs. we can confirm this was a party observer. please refrain from making assumptions about workers who happen to wear glasses. how frustratings that that been ....
In the tabulator, it is counted that day or in the wee hours of the next day. if you drop off an early ballot it means it has to come in on wednesday and start the process of being signature verified. so we have experts here who go through, compare the signature on the outside of the ballot envelope with the signature that we have in our voter registration file so that takes a while because we got to get that right. we want to make sure under we want to follow the law, we want to make sure that every eligible vote is counted and, by the way, that s how it s been since the 1990s. we ve had a significant amount of mail voting in this state since the 1990s. this isn t new to us. i was here in 2006 when i was a republican lawyer who was here watching the situation making sure that the laws were being followed and i sat on the steps outside of this building for days in a close congressional race. people who are saying what s going on here, they haven t been ....
Lawyers in charge of republic observation of elections for years. i can remember 16 years ago. i sat outside of that same counting center, was there in a close congressional race. i was there for days, waiting for the final results. that s how it works here in arizona. when folks are dropping off 290,000 ballots on election day, in a ballot envelope, those don t magically get counted. we have to verify those. i m sure kari lake cares about only eligible votes being counted just like i do, just like all of us, republican and any good american, or any good arizonan would. so here s the reality. those ballots from tuesday, 290,000, needed to be brought into our center, and have to be signature verified. each an every one of those making sure the signature on the outside of that envelope is the same signature that s in our ....