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PHOENIX — After relying on retail-level printers to print hundreds of thousands of ballots on-the-spot and subsequently crippling county-wide Election Day, Maricopa County is planning a 2024 We plan to spend millions of dollars to buy a much larger, high performance printer per vote. place.

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