“Republican” county supervisors in Mohave County, Arizona say that hand-counting ballots in 2024 to ensure the integrity of the election would be a luxurious indulgence that they just can’t afford. Plus, they say that Arizonans are too stupid to count anyway.
No, really. That’s pretty much what they’re saying.
The voters in most Arizona counties have been calling for the hand-counting of ballots ever since the 2020 election was stolen from President Trump. The 2022 midterms that resulted in the installation of Democrat Katie Hobbs as Governor didn’t help. Even podcaster Joe Rogan, who is no friend of conservatives, came out last week and admitted that the 2022 election was stolen from Kari Lake.
In order to prove to the rubes that it’s too expensive and inaccurate to hand-count the ballots, Mohave County ran a hand-counting experiment earlier this year. The experiment was totally and deliberately botched in order to sow mistrust in the process of hand-counting ballots, versus using the super-accurate Trust-o-Matic counting machines that still take several weeks to count all the ballots in Arizona after every election.
To run the experiment, Arizona county election supervisors used a test batch of 850 ballots from the 2022 midterms. They ran this experiment in June of this year. They brought in seven staffers to work eight-hour days counting the ballots, and an additional four staffers to serve as observers. Mohave County Elections Director Allen Tempert called it a “dream team” of seasoned election workers.
Each ballot had 36 races on it for the test. It took the “dream team” more than five full days to count the 850 ballots. In addition, the “dream team” made significant errors in 46 of the 30,600 individual races on the ballots. We’ll explain why the experiment was deliberately botched in a second.
Tempert told the county supervisors that if they paid 245 full-time staffers to count all the Mohave County ballots, it would take them three weeks to do it and it would cost $1.1 million—more than the county’s entire annual budget for everything. As a result, the “Republican” county supervisors voted 3-2 against hand-counting the ballots in Mohave County next year.
Here’s why this experiment was deliberately botched. Some of us are old enough to remember the Ye Olden Tymes before we used machines that no one trusted to count ballots. My father was in politics, so I’ve been around elections and in counting rooms on election nights since I was four years old in the 1970s. No state or municipality with large numbers of ballots tabulates the votes in the fashion that Mohave County just carried out its little experiment.
You don’t force each person counting to run through and count all 36 races on a ballot. No wonder they made so many mistakes. It makes your brain melt to do that.
Ballots used to be hand-counted in an assembly-line fashion. You get a ballot in front of you as a counter, and your job is to tally the votes for President and Vice President only. You then pass the ballot down the assembly line, and the next person counts only the votes for US Senator. The ballot goes down the assembly line, all the way to local dog catcher, until the votes on that ballot have all been tallied. Each person counting only has to look at one location on the ballot, rather than running through the mind-numbing process of reading all 36 races for eight-hour shifts.
As for the price tag, good grief! This isn’t hard folks.
Put out the word a couple of months before the election to both parties about election night.
“Republicans: You have to send 1,000 people to count ballots and an additional 500 to act as observers. Democrats: You have to send 1,000 people to count ballots and an additional 500 to act as observers. We’re going to grind it out and count all the ballots on election night. All of these are to be UNPAID, VOLUNTEER POSITIONS to ensure the integrity of the vote counting. Snacks and coffee will be provided.”
There you have it. Spend $5,000 on snacks and coffee, and boom! Hand-count the votes on election night. I just saved you $1,095,000 on counting the votes, Mohave County. Just do it the way everyone used to do it before these machines came along.
And you know what? Even if, for some reason, the voters in a state turn out to be too stupid to count, as Mohave County is implying, and it takes two or three weeks for results—so what? Wouldn’t we rather have election results that everyone trusts, instead of having every election questioned because we keep relying on these hackable and untrustworthy machines?
Thank you for the great information!
Until and unless we have guaranteed election integrity, we cannot expect anything to improve. I remember the assembly line tallying procedure also. We MUST get away from those machines!
Elections use to be known the same day the voters voted not 3 weeks later.The dems have perfected cheating.
You don’t think Ms. Hoggs will do anything, and I mean ANYTHING, to cheat. If not, it will all come back on her, since it was in charge of the 2022 selection process.
I agree! They are planned to turn off at a set time! Our last election the shut off at 6 pm!! Why? People work until 5 and vote on the way home!! Hand count, by the way not one Republican won!
We all should remember the machines that started the incorrect voting. It started with CHADS on the ballets that one party cheated with. I’d volunteer with no snacks and only piss breaks to prove it can be done in the assembly line. And in no time at all. I don’t live there because the democrats have proven to have stolen several seats in offices across the United States.
This is horrible. they R righing elections.
Seems like Arizona is more corrupt than NY and that’s saying a lot !
I love Arizona but I hate what the crooks in Arizona government are doing to our great state. Hobbs everyone knows she is a cheating no good, but still she is the governor of Arizona. Why I ask did anyone want this scum in office? We didn’t want her in office but if the votes were legale she would be crying a river in her kitchen, I know I didn’t vote for her just like a lot of people I know didn’t vote for her. But with the crooked Judges, and lawyers, we are stuck with her for now in time it will catch up with them and destroy them as they have destroyed Arizona.
But, but, pResident Joey Bribems gots himself a world record 81 million votes. Myself? I think he got the 81 part right. He, like Mr. Hoggs, is a lying sack of pigschitt.
Agree with you Donna! We did not vote her in. She did what she did to the TRUMP 2020 election steal…she CHEATED for HESELF. She knew no one else would risk anything for her. They say she is getting paid off by the Mexican Cartels…she did what she was paid to do. Get into office and be part of the Trafficking and Drug smuggling? She still talks like a scared little girl, it fools no one. Arizona is becoming the new California…messed up. We need a NEW PARTY of Patriots. The Democrats & Republicans are corrupt, and the Independents have no power. GOD HELP US ALL.
Colorado and Arizona citizens you should just turn your ballot into machine empty cause Colorado and Arizona are now doing your voting for you.
Wow can’t believe so many stupid people these states. Please do me a favor and stay in your own state so your stupidity doesn’t come into my state.
we had people from calif migrate to this state. thats how hobbs won now dealing with woke philosphy.. God help us.
Unfortunately for us in Arizona, get all of California, Oregon, and Washington citizens trying to leave the trash states that THEY themselves voted for. Then come to Arizona and vote the same way they did to ruin the state they’re running from. Stupidity at its finest.
Exactly !
I agree with you and it always happens in the middle of the night. They must think we are stupid. Arizona is becoming the new California. Newsom stole that seat with the help of his aunt Nancy Pelosi. I feel for you Arizona, our family ran from California because it’s sewer off taxes, drugs, illegals, and perversion. The criminals have more protection than the citizens. Take back your state. Recall that witch!
Most of them ran from California because they did not vote for those idiots in office. Before you blame people for moving to your state because they voted for trash think maybe they ran from that state because they see how it was stolen from them. California is imploding on itself. Just give it a few more years to see how bad Newsom is. And he’s pushing to run for president. Be cautious. He’s got corrupt banks and Soros backing him!
So, all in charge complain the public is stupid and can’t count, I’m sure that can be change. OK, all concerned citizens let the elite know you are ready for the next election. Get those ballots counted and get our country on the right track. We need to straighten out the mess we are in, re: inflation, education, corruption in our leaders.
Where has all the money gone wake up before we no longer have a country!
Other states count their ballots, so can Arizona. This corruption must be stopped. Start indicting these people who are making our elections fraudulent.
So sad, we have not trusted our elections for years
Democrats will continue to refine their techniques until the voters demand bio-metric recognition systems. The last argument I saw recommended two points of record, e.g., facial and finger print, or facial and retina scan, or facial and DNA, etc.
I’d add to those recommendations, a list of sentencing possibilities. For example, individuals who orchestrate five or fewer votes would face five years in prison. More than five would earn 20 years and more than 20 would earn life in prison.
I also would employ the FBI to identify and arrest individuals sufficiently courageous to test the system and would create a small independent organization to evaluate FBI findings, perhaps using retired agents.
Please. No fblie. The only criminals they will find, they will blame on Republicans. Dems will get a pass, as is the usual way this criminal organization runs.
The FBI is more corrupt than all the rest of D.C.
J. Edgar Hoover started the corruption. IMHO
It’s easy to see Mohave Cty. Officials are rhinos behaving like spoiled DUMBASSOCRATS!!!! I don’t care who they are if they impede your states right to honest elections…..get rid of them immediately!!!!
Yes, please keep those supervisors in mind at your next election.
Total crap. Virtually no national ballots have 36 entries on them. Several counties around the country have dropped the use of machines and showed by using volunteer people counting the ballots is actually cheaper and faster. Its wasn’t that long ago where we knew the results the same night of an election without machines. Our population has been relatively flat for years. There is absolutely no reason for results to take 2 weeks. or more. The deception is rampant.
There actually is a reason it takes weeks to count. The left needs to see how many votes they must manufacture to get ahead by at least one vote. Then, they do it. And they get away with it.
So, what I get out of this is Arizona will be allowing illegals to vote, will be stuffing ballot boxes with liberal biden votes, and more! Well, nothing new I guess. It’s the liberal way!
I f they are so concerned about the cost, I’m sure the voters will gladly kick in enough donations to insure an honest election. Soros and his ilk sure as heck throw millions of dollars in to steal the elections.
If they’re so concerned about the expense they should close their southern border AFTER shipping all the illegal aliens back to their home country. And close the border without any discussion with the Feds they don’t deserve to be included. That would save them enough money to count every states ballots with some left over.
In elementary school through high school, I remember being taught how fair the election process was in the US and in the USSR, their elections were unfair because they only counted the votes for the candidate they wanted. I guess in the last several election cycles, the US has adopted the communist’s strategies and sadly people seem to be good with it.
People this is a BIG LIE! Did you not hear that FLORIDA DID HAND COUNT IN ONE DAY! These fool are RINO if they are against hand counting! Katie Hobbs know she STOLEN THE GOVERNOR POSITION! IT CLEARLY STATED IN THOSE ARTICLES SHE WAS SUPPOSED TO RESIGN BEFORE RUNNING FOR GOVERNOR! She didn’t because she had to be sure it was RIGGED FOR HER TO WIN! Then she resigned AFTER GETTING HER PICK PLACE INTO THE SEAT! Those vote counting machine WAS THE DEMOCRAT IDEA! THAT WHY THEY HAD DOMINICAN TO DESIGN THEM! BUT AS AN ” IT” GUY WHO KNOW YOU CAN REMOVE THE HARDWARE TO EXCHANGE THE COUNTING! Nope! Never trust a democrat or a RINO!
“Machines that no one trusted.” I trust machines–more than I do people. Machines are impartial, don’t get tired, eyestrain, full bladders, and, most of all, don’t come to the task with any preconceived notion of what the outcome ought to be. You distrust the machines for only 1 reason: the election didn’t go the way you wanted. No other reason. No objective evidence has been presented that shows the machines erred or were “rigged.” Funny how the machines in states where Trump won were trustworthy but were not where he lost. You and yours are just pathetic losers grasping at straws. Thank God there are Republicans (MY party) who still have some integrity and sense. Counting ballots by hand is a waste of time and money just to get inaccurate results from fallible (and sometimes criminally biased) humans. YOU clearly haven’t got an unbiased bone in you. Why would I trust hand counting by 1000 possibly hand-picked “volunteers”? Unbelievable.
Now that is one dumb statement!
How about it was the corrupt democrats that picked the company to buy those machines from.
How about 60% of the voting machines malfunctioned in Maricopa County, Arizona.
How about almost almost every single malfunctioning machine was in predominately Republican areas.
How about the corrupt judge that said it was against the law to monitor anyone stuffing a ballot box (again, in Arizona.)
I trust the machines to do exactly what they are programmed to do.
It is the democratic programers I refuse to trust.
I tried to do the math on this price tag and the hours involved (40hrs) it comes to $37 dollars and some change. If they can’t do a simple job of counting at that price they’ve reached the height of their INCOMPETENCE. ! Pure laziness.
They aren’t republicans. They’re nothing but RINOs and part of the uniparty that now exists. Oh well, you elected them so suffer the consequences.
SOUNDS MORE LIKE A KATIE HOBBS STATEMENT. WHAT DO WE KNOW ABOUT THE MEDIA. THEY ARE IN BED WITH DEMS AND SPREW DISINFORMATION. WHAT HAPPENED IN AZ RECENTLY. A CORRUPT DEM RIGGED AN ELECTION WHEREBY SHE WAS THE CANDIDATE THAT GOT THE NOD FOR HER PARTY. AND EVEN THOU THE TURN OUT SEEMED FOR THE OTHER CANDIDATE. SHE WAS THE ONE SO TO SPEAK THAT PICK THE VENUE, PICK ALL THE OPTIONS AND RAN ALL THE POLLS AND OMG! SHE WON. ONE CAN SAY THE WHOLE THING RAN LIKE A RAFFLE WHEREBY SHE TAPED HER TICKET TO THE BOTTOM OF THE BOWL SO SHE KNEW WHICH ONE TO PULL AND CLAIM THE WIN. NOW SHE WANTS US TO THINK AFTER ALL THE CORRUPTION OF THE LAST 2 ELECTIONS. WHEREBY THERE IS PHYSICAL EVIDENCE WE SEEN, WITNESSED AND WAS TOLD BY A DEM SEATED JUDGE HAS NO MERIT DO TO TIMING. WE ARE SUPPOSED TO BELIEVE AZ WILL HAVE ANOTHER CORRUPT ELECTION CAUSE WE ARE TOO DUMP TO KNOW HOW TO COUNT. PLEASE. WE NEED ONE DAY VOTING IN PERSON WITH PAPER BALLOTS AND IDENTIFICATION SO THAT NO “ILLEGAL INVADERS”, NO DEAD PEOPLE AND THEIR PETS LIKE WE SEEN WITH OBAMA, CAN VOTE. I DON’T BUY THE CLAIM WAS GOP. DNC YES. WE NEED TO TAKE BACK AZ NOW. TAKE BACK OUR NATION. AND THE ONLY PERSON WHO CAN DO IT IS THE ONE POLITICAN WHO IS NOT A POLITICIAN. TRUMP HAS BEEN THERE AND NOW KNOWS THE PLAYERS AND THEIR SIDES. TRUMP DID IT ONCE AND HE WILL DO IT AGAIN. NOW THAT WE HAVE CONGRESS WE CAN ENACT A TRUE EFFORT TO DRAIN THE SWAMP. WITH NANCY GONE TRUMP HAS THE CHANCE AND THE KNOW WITHALL TO DRAIN THE SWAMP AND DEAL WITH THE SWAMP CREATURES. ALL THE GOP CANDIDATES ARE LITERALLY PUSHING AND TRYING TO PUSH TRUMP AGENDA. AND THAT IS ALL WE HEAR. THEY ARE “TRYING” TO PUSH TRUMPS AGENDA. THE ONES WORTH HEARING. BUT IT’S JUST THAT. THEY ARE TRYING TO PUSH TRUMPS AGENDA WHILE BEING POLITICAINS THEY ARE. WE NEED TRUMP. “ONLY TRUMP CAN PUSH TRUMP AGENDA” CAUSE TRUMP DID IT. THEY ARE HIS AGENDA WHICH HE HAS ALREADY DID THE PLANNING AND HAS THE MEANS OF EXECUTING. ” ONLY TRUMP CAN ACTUALLY AND WILL EXECUTE TRUMPS AGENDA. ALL THE OTHERS SAY THEY WILL AND DON’T EVEN LIST THEM IN ORDER. THEY JUST RUN THRU WHAT THEY HEAR TRUMP SAY AND ADD IT TO THEIR SPEECHES. WE DON’T NEED A PARROT WE NEED THE TEACHER. WE DON’T NEED A POLITICIAN WHO WAS TRICKED TO RUN CAUSE THE DEMS ARE HOPING THAT WITH HIM RUNNING THEY CAN TAKE HIS SENATE SEAT. TIM WAS DUPED INTO PLAYING THE RACE CARD CAUSE THE DEMS HATE HIM. HATE THAT HE HELPED TRUMP LIKE A WALL THEY BUMPED THEIR HEADS ON. THEY WANT TIMS SEAT AS MUCH AS THEY WANT THE FLORIDA GOVERNSHIP. AND THEY TRICKED DESANTIS INTO RUNNING. PLAYING THEM AND THEIR LACK OF FORIEGN AFFAIRS TO KEEP THE DEMS IN POWER. WE DON’T NEED THE GOV OR SENATOR TO LOSE THEIR SEATS TO DEMS. WE NEED THEM TO STAY THE STRENGTH THEY HAVE IN THEIR POSITIONS NOW. WE NEED TRUMP TO UNDO ALL THE DAMAGES THEY DID IN AN EFFORT TO ERASE ALL THE GOOD TRUMP DID. TRUMP PUT AMERICANS FIRST. TRUMP PUT THE NATION FIRST. THE DEMS INSIST ON AMERICANS BEING THE ONES RESPONSIBLE FOR EVERYTHING. WITH NO REWARDS. NEVER REALIZING THAT THE ONLY WAY AMERICA CAN BE THE ONE RESPONISBLE FOR ALL. IS TO FIRST BE RESPONSIBLE FOR SELF. BEFORE WE CAN HELP ANYONE WE FIRST HAVE TO “HELP OURSELVES”. WE ARE NO GOOD TO ANYONE OR ANYTHING IF WE ARE NOT IN TOP SHAPE. WE ARE NO GOOD TO OURSELVES IF WE CAN’T EVEN HELP OURSELVES. AND THE ONLY WAY TO BE ALL WE CAN BE IS TO MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN. AMERICA HAS TO PUT AMERICAN FIRST AND ONLY AFTER CAN WE EVEN CONSIDER HELPING ANY ONE ELSE. WE NEED CLOSED BORDERS AND REPATRITISM OF THE INVADERS. THE ONLY IMMIGRATION IS A LEGAL ONE. AND AS A PERSON WHO SERVED OVERSEAS. EVERY SINGLE NATION WHEN I WAS IN HAD BORDERS AND LAWS. YOU CROSSED SOMEONES BORDER YOU WERE ARRESTED OR SHOT. IMPRISONED. YOU JUST DON’T ENTER WITHOUT PERMISSION. NOT EVEN ON A VACATION. SO WHY IS IT THAT BIDEN THINKS WHILE HE AND HIS PARTY ARE IN CHARGE THE LAWS DON’T APPLY. THEY SHOULD APPLY MORE. BUT THEN AGAIN. HE USED HIS ACTIONS TO MURDER AMERICANS SO THERE YOU GO. DEMS HATE US AND DON’T GIVE A DAMN AS LONG AS THEIR MONIES TO STEAL FROM US. WE NEED TO VOTE THEM ALL OUT. THAT IS THE PARTY THAT IS BROKEN AND NEEDS REDRESS. AND WE NEED TO DO A AUDIT OF THE DNC. BIDEN EVEN STATED IT AT ONE OF HIS STATE OF THE UNIONS. HE CANCELED ALL THE GOODS THINGS TRUMP DID FOR US. AND REVAMPED THEM WITH STOCK OPTIONS FOR THE BIDEN ADMIN ALONG WITH DEMS PROFITING DOWN THE LINE OF THE PARTY. OUR FOUNDING FATHERS DID NOT MAKE THE SENATE AND CONGRESS, PRESIDENCY AS A MONEY MAKER. SERVICE WASN’T SUPPOSED TO BE REWARDED.
AND MAY I MAKE A SUGGESTION THAT FINDS IT’S WAY TO CONGRESS. I KNOW TRUMP WILL BE FOR IT. I SAY IF TRUMP GETS BACK IN OFFICE. ONE OF HIS FIRST ACTS IS TO SIGN A EO THAT FREEZES SOROS FINANCES. LITERALLY LOCK THE ALL HIS ACCTS. LEAVES HIM PENNILESS AND UNABLE TO SPEND A DIME WITHOUT PERMISSION AND THE REASON FOR IT’S PURCHASE. LIMIT HIM TO JUST PAYING HIS BILLS. NO MORE DARK MONIES TO THE DNC AND OUR NATIONS ENEMIES. THE ONLY OTHER SPENDING SOROS’ MONIES CAN BE USED FOR IS TO FIRE HIS AGs, HIRE NEW LAW ABIDING AGs. AND TO FIRST REINSTATE OUR POLICE OFFICERS IMMUNITIES AND THEN USE THE FUNDS TO REBUILD OUR POLICE FORCE, COURTS AND JAILS. IF THAT ONE COMMUNITY REFUSES TO RAISE THEIR KIDS LAW ABIDING THEN THEY CAN VISIT THEM IN JAIL WHERE THEY LITTLE CRIMINALS BELONG. WE HAVE LAWS FOR ALL NOT FOR JUST A SINGLE RACE. AND IF THE RACE BEING PUNISHED ISN’T THE CRIMINAL ELEMENT. THAT DOESN’T MEAN WE TURN A BLIND EYE TO CRIME CAUSE THE CRIMINAL RACE IS NOT TO BE PUNISHED. CRIME IS CRIME IT KNOWS NO COLOR. BUT OUR TV SHOW JUST ONE. AND IT’S GOING UNPUNISHED, UNADDRESSED. WE NEED TO START FREEZING DARK MONIES. A PERSON WHO DOES AS SOROS DOES IS AND ENEMY OF THE STATE AND NEEDS TO BE TREATED AS SUCH NOT REWARDED LIKE THE DNC DOES. I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW HOW A NAZI SYMPATHIZER WAS GRANTED CITIZENSHIP AND SOME HOW AMASSED A FORTUNE. IT’S LIKE OMAR. SHE CAME HER A REFUGEE PENNILESS AND NOW IS A MILLIONAIRE. WHAT IS GOING ON IN THE DEM PARTY. IT’S NOT AMERICAN. IT’S NOT LIGIT AND IT’S NOT SAFE FOR AMERICANS.
Why do people say ” you voted them in so don’t next time”. How stupid is that, the point being no they weren’t voted in at all they cheated. Consider they are all crooked as hell and are cartel minions as well as Dems and rinoS, the uniparty, making money on their criminal activities. Personally I don’t understand how it was legal for hobbs to oversee her own election. Why wasn’t that an issue? It will come back to haunt them at some point and they’ll wind up swinging from a bridge when they piss off the cartel