[EL] AZ

[Jonathan Rodden]

I think it is a combination of those two.  My understanding is that the counties prioritize counting the in-person ballots, and then move on to the mail-in ballots.  Also, if one mails a ballot from rural Apache County, the county election administrator told me that it goes by truck to a mail sorting center in New Mexico, then goes by truck to Phoenix, and then on to the Apache County election administration office—a process that takes several days.

JR

From: Law-election <law-election-bounces at department-lists.uci.edu> on behalf of "Pildes, Rick" <rick.pildes at nyu.edu>
Date: Friday, November 9, 2018 at 8:31 AM
To: "law-election at department-lists.uci.edu" <law-election at department-lists.uci.edu>
Subject: [EL] AZ

Can someone explain why AZ has so many outstanding ballots to count – 400,000 as of last night in a state where around 1.9 million votes have been counted so far.  Does AZ not start counting mail-in ballots until after the polls close?  Or are these all mail-in ballots that arrived after election day but were postmarked before, which seems unlikely?

Thanks.


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