"Even before the sun fully rose on Tuesday, polling sites in much of the county had experienced major problems. “We have two tabulators. One of the tabulators is not working. The other tabulator is taking about 75 percent successful,” a poll worker explained, revealing that one quarter of the ballots at the location were being misread. After the errors swamped several locations that appeared to be in predominately Republican areas, Lake urged her supporters to travel to Democrat-dominated areas of the county to cast their ballots. “Democrat areas are less crowded & are experiencing fewer problems,” Lake tweeted while urging voters to stay in line. Voters with a faulty machine or unreadable ballot were instructed to place their vote in a separate bin or box, where it would then supposedly be moved to a central location and counted. The ill-prepared voting infrastructure left many frustrated and unsure if their ballots would be counted at all. Lake is, understandably, not happy with how Election Day played out. The fact that her opponent, the apparently incompetent Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs, is in charge of the state’s elections only makes the situation that much more infuriating."
