“We switched from Republican areas to voting to the center of liberal Phoenix. There was nothing wrong with their machine today.”

She said, “This is incompetent — I hope it’s not malicious — but we’re going to fix it.”

Michael J. Lindell, founder of MyPillow, one of the leading voices against machines, said on Tuesday that the situation in Maricopa County’s tabulator “could be one of the biggest crimes of the year when all this comes to light.” will be,” he said. Appearing on “War Room,” a podcast by former Trump adviser Stephen K. Bannon, he added, “These machines must be removed immediately.”

So far this year law was introduced Six states to limit or outright ban the use of tabulators, including six separate bills in Arizona, have failed to pass.

Maricopa County uses a voting tally produced by Dominion Voting Systems. Dominion, which has been the target of conspiracy theories about its machines since 2020 and has filed several defamation lawsuits in response, declined to comment on the situation in Maricopa County.

But according to Jeff Ellington, chief executive of ballot printer Runbeck Election Services, Maricopa’s problems weren’t caused by Dominion’s equipment. Instead, vote center printers had been set up improperly, causing insufficient toner to adhere to the ballots, making it difficult for Dominion counters to read the ballots, he said. I was.

Ellington said the Rambeck company used to print mail-in ballots for Maricopa County, but his company was called for help on Tuesday, and the problem is limited to ballots made with on-site printers on Tuesday. Ellington said the printers were not made by Dominion.

“Everyone has been working on this issue since 6:30 this morning,” Ellington said. “It’s Maricopa County. It’s Dominion. It’s a competitive race.

Jim Rutenberg Alexandra Belzon and Ken Bensinger contributed to the report.