aggiehawg said:
ETA: There are more ballots in the early voting ballot totals from the County than there are early voting ballot envelope images. Over 6400 of them. More ballots than envelopes. How can that be?
EVBs in Maricopa requested by mail can be returned by mail OR in-person without the envelop. In his presentation he argues that the 6,545 early voting ballots should match a corresponding # (6,545) of return envelop images. This is not the case, he's mistaken.
Edit 1: [let me find a source]
Edit 2: I believe I am mistaken. The primary question here, I think, is as follows:
Must the
original mailed early-vote ballot be accompanied by its
original mailed return envelope when a voter drops off their EVB in-person?
I believe that answer is yes (I'm wrong above). So what happens if you attempt to drop off your EVB in-person without said envelope? According to the County, you can a) go home request a new ballot and envelop, 2) stay and vote early in-person upon which your originally issued ballot is cancelled in SiteBook.
I suppose option #2 results in a completed EVB that does not have an accompanying envelope--which results in the discrepancy? I'm not certain.
What Maricopa says:
FAQ #15
https://recorder.maricopa.gov/site/faq.aspxFact 7 0 Double voting
https://recorder.maricopa.gov/justthefacts/Myth 1 - EV files
Poster already included it below, Maricopa EV files:
Quote:
Voters in Maricopa County may vote early or on Election Day. If a voter chooses to vote early, they may cast a mailed ballot or vote in person prior to Election Day. In both of these cases, the voter is casting an early ballot. For the November 2020 General Election, Maricopa County had 2,364,426 requests for an early ballot and 1,918,024 early ballots returned either by mail or voting in-person early.
The claim that Maricopa County had 74,000 more mail-in ballots than requests appears to be incorrectly calculated by comparing two files that are created during early voting, the EV32 and EV33 files. Created daily, the EV32 file is a listing of all voters that requested an early ballot on that day, while the EV33 file is a listing of all voters that returned a ballot on that day. State law requires the County prepare these daily files for the County political parties during early voting. The EV32 file must be created up until 11 days prior to Election Day, which is the last day a voter can request a ballot in the mail. The EV33 files must be created up until the day before Election Day.
Any voter who cast an early ballot in person after Oct. 23, 2020 would not be included in the EV32 file and any voter who dropped off an early ballot on Election Day would not be included in the EV33 file. Any comparison using these files to find the total number of early voters would lead to inaccurate results. The "voted file" provides the full accounting of voters that cast a ballot in Maricopa County.
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