Volkmer said as many as 750 people were affected by delays in Pinal County, but he could not estimate how many left polling places without casting votes. Pinal became the poster child for election day problems in Arizona with only a smattering of problems reported throughout the state, including a ballot shortage at one precinct in Pima County and ink-smeared ballots in Maricopa County. 'Every county official is embarrassed about what happened.' 'This county made a mistake,' County Attorney Kent Volkmer said at a news conference in Florence.

Officials promised to immediately restructure its election department to ensure the same mistakes are not repeated when early ballots for November's election go out in about three weeks. There's no telling how many people were prevented from voting in Pinal County's primary after polling stations ran out of ballots and at least one failed to open for hours.Īmid calls to nullify the results from one candidate and angry questions from others, county officials on Wednesday conceded they botched the election - again. Stacey Barchenger and Mary Jo Pitzl 6:30 p.m.: Pinal County official concedes election day errors

In the GOP primary in House District 4, Kelly Cooper maintained his lead over Tanya Contreras Wheeless. Bolding, the House minority leader, had advised his supporters to be patient late on election night, noting elections officials needed time to process ballots. The former Maricopa County recorder, Fontes has held the lead in the closely fought race since Tuesday evening. The Democratic race for Arizona secretary of state also remains unresolved, as returns released Wednesday evening continued to show a single-digit lead for Adrian Fontes over Reginald Bolding. Taylor Robson has not commented on the latest vote tallies. Maricopa County had roughly 90,000 ballots left to count, enough to close the gap between Kari Lake and her opponent Karrin Taylor Robson. A winner has not yet been declared in the race, but Lake maintained a narrow lead in the race.Ī larger drop of results is expected from Maricopa County on Thursday night, also around 7 p.m.

Maricopa County released about 5,000 additional ballot results in the governor's race Wednesday night, a small number of the remaining ballots that are left to count. Sasha Hupka 7:20 p.m.: Lake keeps lead after few results released in Maricopa County Thomas Galvin, who was appointed to the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors last year, defeated three Republicans to retain his District 2 seat representing the East Valley. She will face Democrat Julie Gunnigle in the general election. County Attorney Rachel Mitchell, running to lead the office she took over after the death of Allister Adel, defeated Gina Godbehere in the GOP primary.

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