After what seems like an endless campaign season, it’s finally election week in Arizona and all over the country. Early voting started on October 12, which was one day after the deadline to register to vote in Tuesday’s general election.
In Arizona, elections are run at the county level based on rules set at the state level. Local election departments can give you information like where to vote that is specific to each county. The Arizona Secretary of State’s Office has information on how to get in touch with each county.
Here’s what you need to know about Election Day in Maricopa County, which has more than 60% of the state’s population.
Where And When Can I Vote?
More than 120 polling places will be open in Maricopa County from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Monday, and more than 220 will be open from 6 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Election Day. There are no precincts, which means that registered voters can vote at any polling place. At Locations. Maricopa, you can look for a polling place or official drop box that is close to you. Vote.
Stephen Richer, the Maricopa County Recorder, said that the polls will be busiest from 5 to 7 p.m. on Election Day.
On Monday, he mentioned on Arizona’s Morning News on KTAR News 92.3 FM, “If someone wants to figure out a method to circumvent the lines,…go to that website and maybe try some hours that are a bit unorthodox. Anyone who is in line by 7 o’clock will be allowed to cast a ballot.
How can I vote?
It is too late to send in a ballot for early voting at this point. On the other hand, if you have an absentee ballot and don’t want to fill out the lengthy ballot in person on Election Day, you can drop off your completed early ballot in its green envelope that has been signed and sealed at any vote centre or official drop box until 7 p.m. on Tuesday if you have an absentee ballot.
If you would rather cast your vote in person, you can do so at any polling location between Monday and Tuesday during the hours that they are open. After verifying that you are eligible to vote, poll workers will print out a paper ballot for you that lists the races associated with your residence.
Do I Need To Show Proof Of Who I Am?
No ID is needed to drop off a completed early ballot. But in-person voters need to show documentation that fulfils one of the following requirements:
1. ONE unexpired photo ID with name and address matching elections records from this list:
- Arizona driver’s license.
- Arizona nonoperating identification license.
- Tribal enrollment card or another form of tribal identification.
- Federal, state or local government-issued identification.
2. TWO items from the following list of nonphoto documentation:
- Utility bill in voter’s name dated within 90 days of the election.
- Bank or credit union statement dated within 90 days of the election.
- Valid Arizona vehicle registration.
- Indian census card.
- Property tax statement.
- Tribal enrollment card or another form of tribal identification.
- Vehicle insurance card.
- Federal, state or local government-issued identification.
- Voter registration card/recorder’s certification.
- Any “official election material” mailing that has your name and address.
3. ONE of the following combinations:
- A valid picture ID from List 1 above with an address that doesn’t match registration records AND one document from List 2 with an address that does match registration records.
- U.S. passport AND one item from List 2.
- U.S. military ID card AND one item from List 2.
Voters who cast their ballots in person and do not have the required identification will be given a provisional ballot and may be required to provide additional identification before their votes will be counted. On the website for the county elections, you may find additional information about provisional ballots, including instructions on how to check the status of your ballot if you are required to submit one.
When Will I Find Out The Results?
It is dependent on how close the race currently is. Some competitions will have their winners very much determined based on the first wave of ballots returned, while others could remain undecided for several days until a sufficient number of votes have been processed.
As a result of Arizona increasing the threshold at which an automatic recount is triggered from 1% of votes cast for both candidates to.5% of votes cast for both candidates, the state could witness an increase in the number of recounts, which would result in longer wait times for the final tabulations.
The decisions that media outlets make are determined by what has been reported and how their analysts anticipate the results of the remaining votes. There is nothing official about any media outlet’s call, despite the fact that it is virtually always right.
Because the vast majority of voters in Arizona cast their ballots through the early voting process, a significant portion of the votes will already have been tallied by the time the polls shut at 7 p.m. on Tuesday.
The initial results for the county will be posted at 8 o’clock tonight. The majority of early ballots that were entered by Saturday will be included in that batch. In a post on Twitter from the previous week, Richer provided an explanation of the tabulation and reporting procedure.
🧵Results during August primary (format for Nov 8)
At 8:00 PM on Elec Night (Aug 2), County released the results from 601,384 ballots — early ballots received by Saturday before Tuesday Election Day.
That made up 69.4% of the eventual results.
Later Election Night…
1/6
— Stephen Richer—Maricopa Cnty Recorder (prsnl acct) (@stephen_richer) November 2, 2022
After the polls have closed, memory cards will be taken out of the vote centre tabulators and transported to the county election department, where they will be loaded onto the primary server. These results will be made public throughout the night as they are compiled and will be available here.
According to Richer, as of early Wednesday morning, more than 80 per cent of Maricopa County’s total had been counted and reported for the primary election that took place in August.
In the following days, “late early” ballots that weren’t received in time to be counted before Election Day will be scanned and their signatures will be validated before being fed into tabulators. This process will take place in the days after Election Day.
When it is determined by qualified election workers that a signature on an early ballot envelope does not match what they have on file, voters have five days after Election Day to “cure” their ballots and cast them again. The verification of signatures is carried out by teams that consist of personnel from both parties.
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