Opinion: Want to kill democracy? Keep screwing up elections, as Maricopa County officials have for a decade.
It’s a very old observation that mainstream media is mostly liberal and sees the world as liberals see it.
“Isolated printer malfunctions are common enough, but the scale of what happened in Maricopa County was far from ordinary. At least one printer failed at 70 of the county’s 223 polling places on Tuesday morning.”Yes, the scale was far from ordinary. It demanded the attention of election officials and poll workers all across greater Phoenix for much of the day. The problem was huge.
Is Kari Lake out of line? Not just out of line, but preposterous, making accusations without evidence and calling election officials “clowns” and “imbeciles.”However, a lot of media covering this spectacle have understated what happened to voters on Nov. 8 in Maricopa County. To which the obvious response is this: If you can’t manage same-day voting, don’t offer same-day voting.The printer problem should have been caught in pre-event testing. It wasn’t and this election was a trainwreck. One of many in recent years.
In 2020, it was County Recorder Adrian Fontes’ turn. He unilaterally changed election rules midstream during the pandemic. The courts accepted some of his changes but rebuffed others. Voters finallyThe Nov. 8, 2022, election, the first since MAGA protesters attacked the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, was the one Maricopa County needed to get right.
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