Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer faces reelection, going up against two primary opponents and a Democratic challenger. Conservatives are furious at his denials that there was significant wrongdoing in the 2020 and 2022 elections, but he may lose reelection based on merely long lines and voting complications, which frustrated voters.
Voters encountered problems casting their ballots at 70 of the 223 vote centers in Maricopa County on Election Day in 2022, resulting in long lines and concerns that ballots were not tabulated or misread.
State Representative Justin Heap (R-Mesa), considered the more formidable challenger of the two Republicans challenging Richer (pictured above), said 300,000 Republican voters were disenfranchised in that election.
“It is clear that the incompetence of our current county recorder contributes to the belief among all of our voters that things aren’t on the up and up,” he said during a press conference announcing his candidacy in late February. “[T]he issue we have is in the last election, 300,000 active Republican voters did not mail in their ballot and did not vote on Election Day.”
Read the rest of the article at The Arizona Sun Times
Subscribe to email updates from the Arizona Sun Times