Arizona Attorney General’s Office
Arizona attorney general’s office announced on Nov. 3 that nearly 20 stolen ballots were found under a rock
Nearly 20 stolen ballots were found under a rock in Arizona over the weekend, state attorney general’s office says
Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich announced Tuesday, on election day, that 18 unopened ballots were recovered last week in Glendale The attorney general’s office noted that they had since been hand-delivered to registered voters
The ballots were found on Friday October 30 by Brayan Ruiz, who works on local farms in Rovey, the Glendale Police Department said on Facebook
« He did the right thing by returning the ballots trying to make sure that anyone who wanted to vote early could still vote, » the ministry wrote
Investigators said they believed votes were stolen from individual mailboxes in a neighborhood, according to a press release from the state attorney general’s office
« The ballots were stolen from individual mailboxes in a neighborhood just south of 107th and Northern Avenues, » Brnovich said « The envelopes were still sealed »
« Every resident said he knew his advance ballots had not arrived Some went to vote in person early, and others had not yet voted, » Glendale police wrote on Facebook
« We were able to distribute them on time, to give voters the opportunity to fill them out at least at home, then drop them off at a polling station »
The reason for the theft of the ballots has not yet been identified and no arrests have been made
Mail-in ballots are at increased risk of losing about 35% to 49%, depending on the state they are cast in, Washington Post analysis shows
Lost votes, a term coined by the Caltech / MIT Voting Technology Project (VTP) in its 2001 report “Voting: What Is / What could be”, are votes that are not counted in elections, a continued the newspaper
The Post, citing an « forthcoming Harvard Data Science Review article » to « quantify how riskier it is for someone to vote by mail than in person, » referred to several scenarios in which a vote could be lost The analysis listed the following scenarios:
The voting application could get lost in the mail; the local electoral office could lose the candidacy or refuse it; the ballot may not reach the voter, for example, get lost in the mail; and the marked ballot might not be returned from the voter to the local election office Even if the ballot arrives, it could be rejected because it arrived late or lacked a signature
With an unprecedented number of mail-in ballots this election due to the coronavirus pandemic, the odds are slim of determining an official Electoral College winner before midnight Eastern Time
While it could take several days to officially determine the next president, a Biden « landslide » would make a call for a race possible on election night, Heavy reported.
However, the fate of the Democratic presidential candidate could be complicated by two battlefield states, Pennsylvania and Michigan.The two are unlikely to achieve conclusive results by the end of November 3, according to Drew McCoy, President of Decision Desk HQ
« The ability to call 270 electoral votes Tuesday night / Wednesday morning (2-4 a.m.) depends on how quickly states like Arizona, Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, Ohio, Texas and Wisconsin count their ballots »McCoy said in an email to Heavy » Factors such as proximity to races, which states will still accept ballots after election day, and how long it takes them to process absentee votes will determine whether or not we will achieve the mark for either candidate in this window »
Nonetheless, there are 270 election votes from states that are expected to process their ballots fairly quickly on Tuesday, November 3. Biden’s best chance for a landslide victory is winning a combination of Florida, Ohio, North Carolina, Georgia, Arizona, and Texas
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