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Author: Mitch Carr (12News)
Published: 10:16 PM MST November 4, 2020
Updated: 10:16 PM MST November 4, 2020
... Attorney Alexander Kolodin represents a voter identified as Laurie Aguilera as well as ten unidentified Arizona voters in a suit against Maricopa County Recorder Adrian Fontes, the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors ...
Plaintiff completed her ballot with the provided Sharpie. While completing it, she noticed the ink was bleeding through, the suit reads. It goes on to say that the machine failed to read Aguileras ballot and those poll workers would not provide her with a second ballot nor a duplicate ballot when the ballot was not read. She believes her vote was not counted ...
Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs has said on several occasions that using a Sharpie to fill in a ballot is perfectly fine. The Maricopa County Elections Department even released this YouTube video on Oct. 24, saying the same.
The Maricopa County Elections Department said Wednesday it could not comment on pending litigation, but in an interview conducted earlier Wednesday with spokeswoman Erika Flores, Flores said the department actually prefers Sharpies ...
https://www.12news.com/article/news/politics/elections/arizona-voters-file-lawsuits-against-maricopa-county-elections-officials-for-canceled-ballots/75-1baae1d6-39ff-4109-b6db-19ffefc1d816
struggle4progress
(118,370 posts)applegrove
(118,827 posts)struggle4progress
(118,370 posts)azfamily.com News Staff
Updated 4 hrs ago | Posted on Nov 4, 2020
... Erika Flores, spokeswoman for the Maricopa County Elections Department ... said ... Sharpies are allowed. That's because the new tabulation equipment counts votes in a such a way that bleed-throughs are not a problem. "I am not aware of any ballots that have been canceled because of the use of Sharpies," Flores said ...
https://www.azfamily.com/news/politics/election_headquarters/sharpies-will-not-invalidate-your-ballot-maricopa-county-officials-say/article_b4906792-1e88-11eb-9ff1-4fd0a99ca009.html
blogslut
(38,019 posts)Not much bleedthrough with cardstock
mr_lebowski
(33,643 posts)There was no bleed-through and I'd have noticed because you fill in both sides.
Thekaspervote
(32,801 posts)I spoiled my ballot in 2000. The election official was nasty about giving me another ballot but I would not relent.
Grow a spine!!
TheRealNorth
(9,500 posts)Now Republican's care about ascertaining the intent of the voter when they don't follow the rules exactly?
Quixote1818
(28,981 posts)Bigredhunk
(1,351 posts)hanging chad
TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)replacement ballots. Sharpies are best for clear, black ovals.
Ballots are never rejected because of the sharpie, but are rejected if the voter does something stupid like puts "X"s in the ovals or overvotes.