A report issued by the Maricopa County Election Department assures officials that no voter was denied the opportunity to cast a ballot on Election Day even though a problem with an on-site printer made the traditional voting process impossible, the Washington Post reports.
The county is set to certify the election results on Monday, and the department issued the report to address concerns voiced by Republicans that Election Day procedural problems disenfranchised–some people say, intentionally–conservative voters who were encouraged by candidates and state Party leaders to vote on Election Day because every other method–like early voting and ballot drop boxes–were rigged by Democrats, liberals, Venezuelans, and others. No evidence of such rigging has been presented.
The report mentions that voters had the option of casting their ballots using “Door 3,” a slot in the stand on which the vote scanning machine was located. Ballots that could not be scanned–because of the problems with the printers–could be placed in Door 3 to be scanned later by an Election Department staffer. Conservative muckrakers had spread the unfounded conspiracy theory that ballots for Republicans placed in Door 3 would not be counted and would be destroyed. There is no evidence of such an issue.