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The rewards for doing it are nonexistent, unless you view room and board in a county jail or state prison to be a reward. The voter's second ballot gets flagged and set aside. The second ballot doesn't get counted because our voter registration election database shows us that individual already voted once.
Interesting that you would bring that up.
Arizona, 2022 midterms. The Republicans were told to vote in person on election day. Backtrack a bit, for some really dumb reason Maricopa County does NOT have precinct based voting, it is countywide. So in theory if a voter pulls up to a voting location, sees a long line, they can go elsewhere. but ONLY if they DO NOT check in.
So what happened election day in 2022? Very widespread tabulator failures (later determined to be partly a ballot image size problem from the BMDs) and that stopped the entire procedure. Normal procedure: check in, get your code, go to BMD make selections, BMD spits out a ballot with (allegedly) the voter's choices, voter takes that to the tabulator and submits it. Tabulator either accepts or rejects that ballot. If accepted, voter is done and goes on their way.
But if rejected? Couple of ways that could go. Voter will be instructed to try to run through the tabulator multiple times. If that fails, voter has the choice to go to another BMD and make their selections again and try the tabulator again. Meanwhile, people are arriving and being checked in waiting for their turn. They can get to the BMDs but cannot get the tabulators at accept their votes. More and more delays, lines get longer and longer. Many people just leave before even getting to check in.
Now for people checked in, making their selections but get blocked by the tabulators from completing the voting process there is one last alternative "Drop Box #3." What is that? Another slot on the side of the tabulator. That slot is supposed to lead to a segregated section of the tabulator machine from the ballots already successfully counted. That's the narrative. How are Drop Box #3 uncounted ballots kept separate from the counted ballots? A piece of cardboard. If the cardboard slips out of its spot, the ballots are commingled with no way to tell which is which. (Which did happen.)
Mid afternoon on election day Maricopa Supervisors held a presser to inform people of the problems at the polls. (I watched it.) My jaw hit the floor when they told voters to go to other polling locations and did not tell them that if they were already checked in, they had to first go to that counter and have the poll worker reverse their check in before leaving. Not that it would have done a lot to help because the poll workers were not trained on how to cancel a check in so the voter could vote at another location. How many voters, who had already wasted hours trying to vote, got out of line and left only to be turned away because they had already voted? Who knows?
Here's kicker, the majority of these tabulator problems were in heavily Republican areas. There was even a Republican heat map in the Maricopa County election headquarters.
