[EL] AZ

[Douglas Johnson]

And 400,000 ballots isn't that many - California had over 4.5 million ballots still left to count!

- Douglas Johnson
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> On Nov 9, 2018, at 9:01 AM, <info at arizonaspolitics.com> <info at arizonaspolitics.com> wrote:
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> Actually, neither, Rick! The County Recorders processed and tabulated all of the early ballots that they had received by late last week or early this week. Voters were well-advised to not mail their early ballots after Halloween, because they must be RECEIVED by the end of Election Day - we are NOT a postmark state.
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> So, many of the ballots still to be PROCESSED and counted are ones that the USPS delivered Sat/Mon/Tue. But, the majority of the still-outstanding ballots were DROPPED OFF by voters ON Election Day. (I was in polling places during the day, and for every one person voting in person there were one or two just slipping their ballots into the early ballot slot. All of those outer envelopes have to be (a) checked to make sure the voter didn't also cast an in-person ballot, and (b) that the signature matches the signature on their voter registration form. 
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> One of the outstanding lawsuits (pleadings: here) is challenging that some of the (larger) counties are calling the voters today if their sigs don't match and verifying that it was truly them casting the ballot. The GOP is claiming that it is unfair that some counties are calling while others are not (unequal). Ironically, the GOP is also enlisting volunteers to help call their voters to correct any problematic ballots. The deadlines on challenging and/or curing verification problems are this weekend and mid-next week, respectively.
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> There are also a number of provisional ballots that have to go through similar verification processes.
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> --Paul
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> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: [EL] AZ
> From: Jonathan Rodden <jrodden at stanford.edu>
> Date: Fri, November 09, 2018 9:42 am
> To: "Pildes, Rick" <rick.pildes at nyu.edu>,
> "law-election at department-lists.uci.edu"
> <law-election at department-lists.uci.edu>
> 
> 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
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> 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?
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> Thanks.
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