Technicians were dispatched to polling sites across Arizona's largest county on Election Day to fix dozens of malfunctioning vote tabulation machines, an issue that led some GOP politicians and pundits to spread misleading or false information.
Election officials stressed that the machines were not inaccurately reading ballots, but rather, not accepting them at all.
About 60 of the county's 223 voting locations reported related problems. Gates said technicians were"doing what they can to get these back online." “Some tabulator machines in Maricopa County, Arizona, have malfunctioned, and some commentators on the right have tried to paint that as part of a sinister plot,” Sanderson,
Maricopa, the fourth-largest county in the country and home to Phoenix and Tempe, is widely considered the key to Arizona elections. Most of the state’s ballots are cast there and the results typically match the outcome statewide. At around 2:30 p.m. local time, officials announced they had found an apparent fix to the problem by changing the machines' printer settings.
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