Arizona Republican Party Chair Kelli Ward appeared on Steve Bannon’s War Room: Pandemic Wednesday night to discuss the state’s slow election results.
At that time, only 82 percent of the ballots had been counted, amd Ward leveled blame at Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer. “France can count millions of ballots within hours of their election,” she noted, calling him a “disgrace.” (She retweeted the information about France) Ward said his office announced they would have more results at 7 p.m. from the 125,000 outstanding ballots left from people who had dropped them off at polling locations but never did.
While most counties finished their ballot counts shortly after the polls closed, Maricopa County was one of the slowest to finish, citing ballots that people dropped off at the polls on Election Day, verifying provisional ballots, and handling write-ins. Richer’s Maricopa County Elections Department (MCED) estimated that almost 99 percent of ballots for the county would be tabulated by the end of the day on Friday.
Ward criticized the Republican attorneys working with Maricopa County Supervisor Bill Gates, who declared that the election was conducted with no problems.
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