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The problems at the site east of downtown began before the polls opened after an election clerk quit and the voting machines were not set up.
Cochise County officials argued before a judge Friday over the legality and feasibility of a full hand count of ballots after Tuesday's election.
The Arizona Senate's audit of 2.1 million fall 2020 ballots has been extremely controversial since its inception. As recently retired Arizona Republican U.S. Senator Jeff Flake reiterated on May 11, its premise is based on "the 'big lie' that the 2020 election was stolen from Donald Trump."
About 75,000 Republican-leaning voters in Arizona's two most populous counties did not vote to re-elect Trump in the 2020 election, according to an analysis of every vote cast by a longtime Arizona Republican Party election observer and election technologists familiar with vote-counting data.