June 12, 2022
Maricopa County Spokesperson Admits 20,000 ‘Late’ Ballots Were Scanned Before Verification
“In an email exchange with The Arizona Sun Times, a Maricopa County Recorder’s office spokesperson may have unwittingly admitted that the county mishandled thousands of ballots.
From the 2020 general election that one watchdog groups says were accepted after the legal deadline.
Megan Gilbertson, the communications director for the Maricopa County Elections Department (MCED)—a department of the Maricopa County Recorder’s Office—said that MCED processed ballots by scanning them into the tabulating machines before transferring their custody the next day to Runbeck Election Services, which verifies their legitimacy with signature verification.
She stated, ‘Due to the large volumes of early ballots received Election Day, we are scanning in ballots received by 7pm on Election Day well into the next morning, which is why a transfer of custody document would have a date after Election Day’…”
