Ballots for in-person voting are stored in a vault at the Maricopa County Counting and Elections Center (MCTEC) ahead of the 2024 Arizona Primary and General Elections on June 3, 2024 in Phoenix, Arizona. A test ballot is loaded into the printing press.(Photo provided by Patrick)
phoenix – Arizona’s most populous county receives recognition primary election Results were announced Monday, starting a recount for Democratic candidates in a congressional district where the front-runners were separated by 42 votes.
Verified by 5 members Maricopa County The Oversight Committee is formally known as the Canvas. It required mainly ministerial steps for Secretary of State Adrian Fontes’ office to conduct the recount. 3rd Congressional District.
Former Phoenix City Council member Yasamin Ansari leads former state Rep. Raquel Teran by less than half a percentage point, a difference that will trigger a recount. arizona Law.
Fontes acknowledged the need for a recount and petitioned Maricopa County Superior Court for permission to do so, according to court records. He estimated that if everything starts as planned on Tuesday, the recount process will be completed by August 19.
Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Jennifer Ryan Toohill formally ordered a recount, records show. The judge scheduled a hearing to announce the results on August 20th.
The Democratic winner will face Republican Jeff Zinke in the November general election. district is leaning Democratic Party Including parts of Phoenix. The seat remained vacant when the U.S. House of Representatives took office. Ruben Gallego He decided to seek a seat in the U.S. Senate. He will face Republican Kari Lake in November.
In the Grand Canyon State, announcing election results has long been a tedious and disrespectful part of government business. But ever since Joe Biden lost the 2020 presidential election in Arizona to Donald Trump, election conspiracies have flourished and at times disrupted the process.
Certification of this year’s primary election results went largely smoothly across Arizona, with most of the state’s 15 counties certifying their results without incident. The state canvass is scheduled for later this week.
However, some residents continue to question the election.
During a public comment session in Maricopa County, several people questioned the integrity of the primary and opposed certification. One speaker accused the county of perpetuating fraud and asked why they don’t conduct elections with paper ballots like Russia does.
Deputy Speaker Thomas Galvin, responding to his own question about whether women were more confident in Russia’s elections than in the United States, said they were.
Arizona counties certify primary election results
Then Galvin raised his voice and pushed back.
“Are you kidding? That’s Putin’s propaganda,” he said, referring to Russian President Vladimir Putin.
In the neighborhood Pinal CountyThe all-Republican Board of Supervisors has suspended the primary election results after Supervisor Kevin Kavanaugh claimed inconsistent voting patterns in the failed sheriff’s race and several other countywide elections. Certified.
Pinal County Recorder Dana Lewis said every time Kavanaugh has publicly declared that he is an anomaly, his own statistics do not support that.
Some of Kavanaugh’s colleagues dismissed his claims of misconduct as a “clown show.” Speaker Mike Goodman banged the gavel nearly 30 times during a heated exchange with Kavanaugh, before ultimately voting to approve the results “under duress.”
Mr. Kavanaugh earlier filed a complaint with the attorney general’s office, which acknowledged receipt on Monday but declined to say whether it would investigate.
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Elsewhere in Arizona, rural eastern cochise county The primary results were certified without any drama on Friday. The Republican stronghold on the U.S.-Mexico border was thrown into chaos after the midterm elections two years ago amid rampant election denialism and unsuccessful calls for all ballots to be counted by hand.
The board is made up of two Republicans who requested a hand count in 2020 and one Democrat who was absent from Friday’s meeting.
Officials and government websites in the remaining Arizona counties confirmed that investigations there were successful and automatic recounts were triggered sporadically. These included a county supervisor race that was separated by just three votes. la paz and Yuma county.
