Why does it take so long to count votes in Maricopa County? Two words: Early. Voting.
home to Phoenix, the vote counting unfolds inside a gargantuan downtown building resembling a warehouse. Security officers monitor who comes and goes, and workers wearing blue latex gloves furiously sort ballot envelopes while ’80s pop and ’90s hip-hop blares. A track recently in rotation: Montell Jordan’s “This Is How We Do It.”
The attention is unprecedented in this county, which in 2020 was central to attempts by Donald Trump and his supporters to overturn the former president’s loss. Anticipating a maelstrom during the 2022 election, the county’s governing board and election officials worked for months to try to set public expectations for how the November results would roll out.
“Here is the issue. We have so many close races that everyone is still paying attention to Maricopa County,” Bill Gates, the Republican chair of the Maricopa County governing board, told reporters packed into the lobby this week. “Those other states, like Florida, those races were blowouts, no one is paying attention.” It is not a criticism, he said, but “this is how we do things in Maricopa County. We follow the law. These are the laws that were put in place by the state legislature.
It has been offered for decades, and it is popular. In Maricopa County, about 80 percent of voters asked for early ballots that can be mailed, put in secure drop boxes, or handed in
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