their ballots with the vision for the country very much up for grabs. welcome to america reports on this election day. i m sandra smith in new york. john: good to be with you on this important day, i m john roberts in washington. democrats hope to remain in control of congress to further advance president biden s agenda. republicans believe voters frustrations with how things have gone the past two years will send them back into the majority. sandra: a seat the democrats will likely need to win in order to keep the senate is arizona. there is also a crucial governor s race taking place there. john: a busy show ahead. all-star analysts will preview, and all of the closest races. start with senior correspondent at a polling site in the phoenix suburb of paradise valley. wh john and sandra. the maricopa county elections division says 20% of the tabulation machines in and around the county are malfunctioning, means the ballots are not being counted at the election site w
comes to her race. also another reminder to folks out there, this is a paper ballot state. this is nothing that is done electronically. so what i m saying, john and sandra, i m going to be here until december because we are seeing all of the ingredients setting up for multiple lawsuits and given how close these races are, possible recounts. back to you. john: you know, alicia, kari lake s campaign has put out a voter alert saying if you put your ballot in one of the machines what s called box 3, it may not be counted for weeks. do we know that to be the case? that is not true. that is not true, according to elections officials. john: they seem to suggest it would be counted fairly promptly. yeah, i do know that, and actually bill gates, the county supervisor here was standing in front of one of those machines and showed folks exactly what drawer number three was. what happens is, instead of the ballot being counted and
looking at wisconsin, michigan and pennsylvania. of course those three states are maybe the biggest surprises versus the public polling we ended up seeing. pennsylvania, wisconsin and michigan. you can end up buying that kind of theory saying maybe there was something wrong. what these computer signs have said is where clinton underperformed, in a place like wisconsin for example, the ush be areas, they actually had paper and octi scan. of course she did really well in the urban areas. the other way to kind of almost debunk this so far is look at what happened in minnesota. minnesota was an all paper ballot state. hillary clinton barely won state by one percentage point.