Election Day 2022 in Arizona: Live voting updates across the state - The Arizona Republic

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Polls opened for in-person voting from 6 a.m. until 7 p.m. Tuesday arsenic Arizona and the federation wrapper up a contentious midterm election. 

Republican Kari Lake, the Trump-backed former TV news anchor, is squaring disconnected against Democrat Katie Hobbs, Arizona's caput of state, successful a high-profile contention for who volition go governor. Trump-endorsed Republican Blake Masters and Democratic incumbent Mark Kelly besides are locked successful a choky contention for a U.S. Senate seat.

The archetypal results were expected to beryllium released astir 8 p.m.

Follow sum of Arizona's midterm predetermination by Republic reporters here.

3 p.m.: Voters study creaseless process in  Tucson

Jessie Jensen and Eric Rahn stopped to ballot astatine the Sam Lena Public Library polling halfway successful southbound Tucson due to the fact that it was connected their mode home.

Voting was “really easy,” Jensen said, adding that it was conscionable bully to beryllium capable to ballot anywhere.

“Every ballot is important. The satellite has gone brainsick lately,” Jensen said. Jensen usually votes with a mail-in ballot, but she didn’t person 1 this election, she said.

Rahn said women’s rights were an important contented for him during this election.

A canvass inspector astatine the tract said different than printer jam issues, which are typical, things person been moving smoothly.

Luz Acosta said the voting process was quick, with nary lines oregon issues. She said she felt the process was unafraid and was turning retired due to the fact that of galore issues.

“I’m a azygous mom,” she said. “It’s each important.”

— Sarah Lapidus

2:45 p.m.: Cybersecurity officials accidental inactive nary menace to disrupt elections

Two elder U.S. cybersecurity officials said Tuesday day that the Department of Homeland Security continues to spot nary circumstantial oregon credible menace to disrupt predetermination infrastructure oregon Election Day operations and that it remains vigilant to support against overseas federation disinformation and malign power operations.

The officials, some with DHS’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency oregon CISA, noted that determination person been a fewer isolated issues arising from wrong the 8,800 oregon truthful idiosyncratic predetermination jurisdictions successful the U.S., including Maricopa County. But they described them arsenic thing retired of the mean and said CISA was successful adjacent interaction with elected officials successful Maricopa County and elsewhere crossed the state successful bid to recognize and respond to immoderate Election Day problems if needed.

The officials, some speaking connected the information of anonymity to sermon ongoing cybersecurity operations, referred questions astir Maricopa County to section officials there, who person released statements and a video explaining however the voting machinery works.

One of the CISA officials specifically cautioned against immoderate efforts to politicize what appears to beryllium a reasonably regular method glitch, saying Maricopa County voters should person assurance successful their systems due to the fact that they are afloat transparent and unfastened to bipartisan observers. Also, 1 of the officials said, Arizona has a process that uses insubstantial ballots for each votes, truthful determination volition beryllium opportunities to verify — and audit — them if necessary.

— Josh Meyer, USA TODAY

2:30 p.m.: Kari Lake casts ballot successful person

Republican campaigner for politician Kari Lake went to ballot astatine Phoenix’s downtown station bureau astatine noon connected Tuesday with her husband, lad and daughter.

Afterward, she spoke to a throng of local, nationalist and planetary press, alleging problems with ballot tabulators successful blimpish areas, prompting her to ballot successful “the bosom of wide Phoenix” alternatively of successful Paradise Valley arsenic she had planned.

Maricopa County has not released a database of locations with issues, saying that astir 20% of implicit 220 voting locations were impacted.

“We person had problems aft problems,” Lake told reporters. “And there's a crushed we decided to alteration locations."

Lake has made predetermination reforms a cardinal portion of her run platform, including mendacious claims that Donald Trump won the authorities successful 2020. She has refused to accidental if she’d judge a loss, telling ABC News successful October she would bash truthful if the predetermination was “fair, honorable and transparent.”

“This is incompetency," Lake said Tuesday lasting adjacent to GOP lawyer Harmeet Dhillon, a Republican National Committee subordinate from California who has represented Trump. Lake’s run brought connected Dhillon past month.

"I anticipation it's not malice, but we're going to hole it,” Lake said. “We're going to win. And erstwhile we triumph determination is going to beryllium a travel to Jesus for elections successful Arizona.”

As Lake formed her vote, Democratic nominee for politician Katie Hobbs wrapped up visits to respective polling locations in Tempe and Phoenix. Hobbs voted aboriginal connected Nov. 1.

— Stacey Barchenger

2:15 p.m. Voting machine issues besides reported successful New Jersey

Like Maricopa County, determination were reports of issues with voting machines successful Mercer County, New Jersey. 

Poll workers successful Mercer County discovered an contented with the voting instrumentality scanners soon aft polls opened, said Nathaniel Walker, superintendent of elections.

"Every ballot that has been formed volition beryllium counted, nary elector volition beryllium disenfranchised, and the integrity of the predetermination is intact and secure," Walker said.  

Voters are to capable retired insubstantial ballots arsenic they usually would, Walker said.

"A contingency program is successful spot for each ballots formed astatine each locations to beryllium scanned astatine the unafraid Board of Elections office," Walker said. "Again, ballots volition beryllium scanned conscionable arsenic they would astatine the polling location."

The region said successful a Facebook station that the committee of elections "is moving with Dominion, the instrumentality maker, to resoluteness the issue."

New Jersey Attorney General Matt Platkin tweeted, "Attention each Mercer County voters — paper ballots are disposable successful your precinct, and each polling locations are open. Rest assured: insubstantial ballots are harmless and secure, and your ballot volition beryllium counted."

The issues were apt to hold ballot counts successful the 3rd and 12th Congressional District races, arsenic good arsenic section races.

— Liam Quinn

 1:55 p.m.: Some Maricopa County polling locations reporting agelong lines

Some Maricopa County polling locations were reporting hold times of much than 30 minutes as of aboriginal day connected Tuesday.  Keep successful caput that hold times are fluid and tin alteration often passim the day.

As of 1:45 p.m., the Outlets astatine Anthem had the longest hold clip among region polling locations astatine 64 minutes followed by Mesa Community College astatine Red Mountain astatine 56 minutes. Asante Library successful Surprise reported a 56-minute hold time. 

Earlier this week, Maricopa County officials said the busiest clip astatine the polls is mostly from 5 to 7 p.m.

You tin cheque hold times connected the county's website: https://elections.maricopa.gov/voting/where-to-vote.html.

— Anne Ryman

1:40 p.m. Political activistic criticizes Maricopa County implicit instrumentality glitches

Charlie Kirk, the laminitis of Turning Point USA, the influential Phoenix-based nonprofit aimed astatine engaging young conservatives, sent a Tweet to his 1.8 cardinal followers calling for arrests related to predetermination issues successful Arizona’s astir populous county.

“People request to beryllium arrested for what is happening successful Maricopa County,” Kirk wrote astatine astir 12:15 p.m. connected Election Day. “It’s criminal.”

Although the Tweet wasn’t circumstantial astir wherefore Kirk thought arrests were warranted, it came amid a watercourse of Tweets astir lines and instrumentality glitches passim metro Phoenix.

Kirk urged Republicans to ballot successful person, saying helium did not spot the aboriginal voting mechanisms. He said that helium expected the fig of in-person voters to beryllium “so immense they volition not beryllium capable to bash what they usually do, the benignant of nonsense shenanigans.”

— Richard Ruelas

1:30 p.m.: Cochise County whitethorn entreaty ruling connected manus count

A time aft a justice shot down an attempt to manus number each Cochise County ballot successful Tuesday's election, officials signaled they privation to appeal.

The committee of supervisors called an exigency gathering for Wednesday to see hiring extracurricular counsel Bryan Blehm to correspond not lone the three-person board, but besides the region recorder and the elections director.

Supervisor Peggy Judd said she was hoping to get enactment for an appeal, arguing, on with supervisor Tom Crosby, that their manus number program was legal. A Pima County justice precocious Monday ruled it was not.

Judd, a Republican, blamed the ruling connected governmental bias.

“Pima County is our astir wide region successful Arizona,” she said successful an email to The Arizona Republic. ”It was successful our judge’s DNA to broadside with the plaintiff.”

— Mary Jo Pitzl

1:15 p.m.:  On Tohono O’odham Nation, employees administer shirts, more

In Sells, employees of the Tohono O’odham Nation’s Sells District Administration Office distributed T-shirts, h2o bottles, clip boards, retention containers and archetypal assistance kits to tribal members who voted Tuesday.

The employees acceptable up a ample achromatic structure successful the bureau parking lot.

Sells District Chairman Juan Buendia, 36, said the giveaways are a mode to promote elector information among tribal members. Voter turnout was steady.

The substance connected the grey T-shirts said, “Our Voice — Our Vote, Since 1948.”

Sells is the Tohono O’odham nation’s capital. It is 1 of the nation’s 11 political districts and is the astir populous connected the reservation, which stretches crossed south-central Arizona and borders Mexico.

— Noel Lyn Smith, reporting supported by the Pulitzer Center

1 p.m.: Yavapai County responds to societal media messages astir voting

Yavapai County Interim Recorder Michelle M. Burchill responded to what she said was a accelerated dispersed of misinformation online. 

She said Tuesday day that determination were nary issues with printers oregon voting machines. On Tuesday morning, she said a printer astatine a Chino Valley polling determination was not moving correctly, but the contented was solved successful 30 minutes. 

That didn’t halt societal media messages saying that determination were breached machines, atrocious printers, and radical waiting “hours” with lines of implicit 200 people.

“That wasn’t the case,” Burchill said, explaining that lines person been moving smoothly — albeit dilatory — each morning.

She asked that radical stay calm and enactment successful line, and not get heated implicit waiting times: “They wanted to travel retired and ballot successful idiosyncratic contiguous alternatively than instrumentality vantage of different opportunities. Just — delight chopped america a small slack.”

Deputy County Recorder Karen McCracken said earlier Tuesday that ballots volition beryllium dropped disconnected astatine the recorder's bureau by 8 p.m., but not to expect immoderate archetypal results until precocious successful the evening, apt aft midnight.

— Joseph Darius Jaafari

12:45 p.m.: Voter reports being juggled betwixt sites to formed ballot

At Madison Baptist Church successful cardinal Phoenix, Carol Harder said a tabulator wouldn’t number her ballot. They tried immoderate 20 times earlier issuing her different ballot, which besides couldn’t beryllium counted, she said.

She was told to spell to different determination since this tract couldn’t contented her a 3rd ballot. At the adjacent polling location, she was told the strategy showed she had counted. She returned to Madison Baptist Church wherever her lone enactment was to record a provisional ballot.

“Now I person to spot that portion of the system. … I wholly person nary religion successful this,” she said walking away. 

Maricopa County has reported method issues with ballot tabulators astatine immoderate 40 voting locations. Under typical circumstances, region voters fill out insubstantial ballots and past insert their ballots into on-site tabulators. The tabulators number the votes and prevention some the ballots and the results. 

— Taylor Seely

 Noon: More vexation astatine the ballot container successful Maricopa County

At Desert Christian Fellowship Church successful cardinal Phoenix, galore voters were frustrated with tabulators astatine the tract not taking their ballots. 

"I watched astir 12 radical insert their ballots into the tabulator and it not instrumentality their scans," Missy Art said. "The workers are instructing them to insert them into the container that is truthful afloat they request to beryllium shook to person much ballots." 

Other voters person decided to effort and spoil their ballot and ballot astatine different site. But some person had issues with the spoil process arsenic well. 

Voters who experienced issues with the tabulators astatine the Desert Christian Fellowship Church determination decided to effort again astatine the Beatitudes Campus, a status community. 

"We person 2 ballots floating," Bill Mason said. "We went implicit the Beatitudes — they're inactive showing we voted implicit here. We can't ballot now."

Maricopa County officials reported problems with ballot tabulators at 20% of voting centers connected Tuesday morning. At polling sites, Maricopa County voters fill out insubstantial ballots and past insert their ballots into on-site tabulators. The tabulators number the votes and prevention some the ballots and the results. 

— Brenda Muñoz Murguia

11 a.m.: Voters frustrated with Maricopa County voting

Sandra Tufel, a Queen Creek resident, went to formed her ballot astatine the Queen Creek Library astatine astir 7 a.m. Tuesday but said the tabulator would not scan her ballot.

She said she was fixed a prime of waiting oregon putting her ballot successful a driblet container for aboriginal scanning. 

“I’m going to person to spot the strategy and spot my ballot volition beryllium counted. … It was a frustrating experience,” Tufel said.

“But I consciousness truthful atrocious for the canvass workers. No 1 was assertive but radical weren’t blessed and (poll workers) person to reply to everyone.”

Maricopa County officials reported problems with ballot tabulators at 20% of voting centers connected Tuesday morning. At polling sites, Maricopa County voters capable retired insubstantial ballots and past insert their ballots into on-site tabulators. The tabulators number the votes and prevention some the ballots and the results. 

— Lillian Boyd

10:30 a.m.: Techs trying to find why tabulators not working

Maricopa County officials said technicians were trying to find wherefore ballot tabulators astatine astir 20% of voting locations — astir 40 of 223 voting centers — are experiencing problems.

"We person techs retired there. We’re doing what we tin to get them backmost online," said Maricopa County Board of Supervisors Chairman Bill Gates during an impromptu quality league Tuesday morning. 

Gates said the issues were not centered in 1 peculiar geographical country but were "dispersed" passim the state's astir populous county. 

Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer said the region has not experienced this peculiar contented with tabulators successful erstwhile elections. 

County officials are advising voters to spot their ballots successful a unafraid driblet container called "Door No. 3"  astatine the polling tract if the tabulator is not working. Those ballots volition stay unafraid and volition beryllium taken erstwhile voting ends aft 7 p.m. and delivered by a bipartisan squad to the county's predetermination tabulation center. 

Richer said this is akin to the process utilized by different Arizona counties. 

"Everyone is inactive getting to vote," Gates said. "Nobody is being disenfranchised, and we’ve got redundancies successful place."

At polling sites, Maricopa County voters capable retired insubstantial ballots and past insert their ballots into on-site tabulators. The tabulators number the votes and prevention some the ballots and the results. 

— Anne Ryman

9:30 a.m. Voters report problems with tabulators

Maricopa County officials accidental 20% of voting locations are experiencing issues with the tabulators. 

At the Mountain Park Health Center Baseline Clinic successful southbound Phoenix, immoderate voters leaving the polling spot astir 7 a.m. said the tabulators were not scanning immoderate ballots. 

One elector said helium showed up astatine 6 a.m. and stayed for implicit an hr until his ballot yet scanned. 

Some voters leaving the polling spot said they dropped disconnected their ballot successful a container astatine the site. That's what Jimmy R. Smith did erstwhile his ballot didn't scan.

“I was informed that immoderate of the votes aren’t being taken, and that you tin spell up and vote, and if it doesn’t, you tin enactment it successful a container and they’re going to travel backmost and tabulate it later,” helium said. “But you besides person radical sitting around, waiting, due to the fact that they privation to marque definite that their ballot is tabulated.” 

Others chose not to permission their ballot successful the ballot box.

Josh Erb said helium plans to travel backmost to the aforesaid tract aboriginal this day erstwhile helium gets disconnected work. 

He besides chose not to effort to usage the tabulators erstwhile helium heard they were having problems. “They said that we tin descent it successful the machine, but I don’t privation to hazard it. If it’s not working, I’m not going to spot my vote,” Erb said. 

— Madeleine Parrish

9 a.m.: Maricopa County present says 20% voting locations having issues

Maricopa County Elections officials say 20% of the county's voting locations are experiencing issues arsenic of Tuesday morning. This is greater than the earlier 10% estimation the region gave. 

"We’re doing what we tin to get these backmost online. It’s not similar some of the tabulators are having these issues. It whitethorn lone beryllium 1 (at a location)," Maricopa County Board of Supervisors Chairman Bill Gates said connected Tuesday greeting during an impromptu quality conference. 

Maricopa County has 223 voting centers. 

County officials advised voters that if a tabulator is not moving astatine a site, they tin inactive vote. They person the enactment of casting their ballot and placing it into a unafraid ballot box. Those boxes volition past beryllium taken to the county's predetermination halfway for tabulation. 

At polling sites, Maricopa County voters capable retired insubstantial ballots and past insert their ballots into on-site tabulators. The tabulators number the votes and prevention some the ballots and the results. Once voting ends, a bipartisan squad of poll workers transports the ballots to the county's predetermination office and ballot receiving sites truthful that they tin beryllium securely stored.

— Anne Ryman

8:30 a.m.: Maricopa County experiencing issues at 10% of locations

As Maricopa County experienced issues astatine astir 10% of voting locations Tuesday morning, officials sought to guarantee voters that they tin inactive formed ballots.

Voters astatine impacted sites person 2 options: to formed their ballot via a unafraid container to beryllium counted aboriginal oregon to spell ballot astatine a antithetic location. Elections Department spokesperson Megan Gilbertson said canvass workers are champion equipped to assistance voters guarantee their ballot is successfully cast.

“It’s important for voters to speech to the canvass workers connected site,” Gilbertson said.

Officials confirmed the issues were with the on-site tabulators.

As of 8 a.m. Tuesday, astir 30,000 Maricopa County voters had formed a ballot, Gilbertson said.

— Sasha Hupka

8 a.m.: Pinal County reports nary problems astatine polling sites

Months aft a disastrous superior election, Pinal County polling sites opened without a hitch connected Election Day.

County spokesperson James Daniels said officials received conscionable 9 calls wrong the archetypal fewer hours of voting, compared with hundreds each hr successful August, erstwhile the region ran retired of ballots astatine one-quarter of its voting locations.

All of Tuesday’s calls were related to wide requests for elector information, specified arsenic polling locations, Daniels said.

“They are conscionable voter-type questions, which is what the interaction halfway should beryllium for,” helium said.

— Sasha Hupka

7:20 a.m.: Rural voting site reports dependable watercourse of voters

At the voting tract northbound of Prescott successful Williamson Valley, a occurrence and aesculapian gathering was already bustling by 6 a.m. arsenic a enactment formed outside.

Outside the 75-foot perimeter, wherever campaigners and activists tin stand, a ample reddish structure was propped up with signs supporting Senate campaigner Blake Masters, portion others stood extracurricular holding signs to rise wealth for a proposition to rise firemen’s budgets. 

By 6:30, canvass workers were tending to astir 20 radical — which, for this area, is simply a lot, said Dawn Casey, the inspector astatine the canvass site. “I’ve been present erstwhile 10 radical amusement up,” adding that this year’s predetermination feels different. 

“This is simply a precise agrarian area, tons of cowboys and farmers,” she said. “But we’re seeing a bully turnout truthful far.” 

— Joseph Darius Jaafari

7 a.m.: Burton Barr Library tabulator instrumentality backmost online

Maricopa County officials said Burton Barr Library is lone doing drop-off ballots arsenic of 6 a.m. aft determination were issues with a ballot tabulator machine. The contented was fixed arsenic of 7:30 a.m. County officials said the password was entered excessively galore times, triggering built-in information measures that locked the machine. County officials said the contented was being addressed. 

In the meantime, voters person 3 options: Drop disconnected ballots, wait for the tabulator to travel online or spell to different determination nearby. Find locations at http://Locations.Maricopa.vote. 

— Anne Ryman

6 a.m.: Where to formed a ballot connected Tuesday

Maricopa County will person 223 voting centers unfastened Tuesday, and registered voters tin formed a ballot astatine immoderate of those locations. Find a database of voting locations at https://elections.maricopa.gov/voting/where-to-vote.html. Wait times volition beryllium displayed connected the website.

Elections officials in the state's astir populous county said lines astatine the polls are anticipated, with the astir elector enactment expected betwixt 5 and 7 p.m.

Maricopa County officials estimate that astir 250,000 to 350,000 radical volition ballot successful idiosyncratic successful the region connected Election Day,

— Anne Ryman