Arizona audit: Recount of Maricopa County election restarts at coliseum Staff Reports
Ballot counting has resumed at Veterans Memorial Coliseum after a week-plus-long hiatus due to high school graduation ceremonies.
Before they paused, the effort had made it through about 500,000 of the 2.1 million ballots cast by Maricopa County voters. The counters now have about six weeks to finish the rest before their lease expires at the end of June.
The floor of the coliseum now has 44 tables set up for counting and 32 for ballot inspection, though just half of those were in use Monday morning. The effort will have to pick up considerable steam to complete the work over the next month.
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Observers sent by the Arizona Secretary of State’s office to the Senate’s audit of the Maricopa County election shared concerns with reporters Wednesday saying that auditors are making up procedures as they go and that security issues continue to be a concern.
“It’s bad for election security, it’s bad for voters, it’s bad for our democracy,” Joanna Lydgate, CEO of States United Democracy Center, said about the audit. “This is about casting doubt on our election process because you didn’t like the outcome.”
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Steve Gallardo, a member of the Maricopa County, AZ board of supervisors, talks with Rachel Maddow about growing outrage among county officials that the poorly run audit ordered by state senate Republicans is embarrassing the state and undermining confidence in future Arizona elections even though Arizona s 2020 election was safe, secure and accurate. May 19, 2021
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by Cole Lauterbach, The Center Square | May 19, 2021 08:00 AM Print this article Dreamframer/Getty Images/iStockphoto
Arizona’s largest county is cutting property taxes.
The Maricopa County Board of Supervisors approved of a tentative $3.4 billion budget for the 2022 fiscal year. The proposal is an increase from its $3 billion budget enacted amid the COVID-19 pandemic that saw a reduction in spending but a flat tax levy and federal aid.
Since the county’s portion of a resident’s total property tax levy is roughly 15% of a total annual bill, the change won’t be significant. Some may see their bills go up, since home values are the other half of the equation when tabulating a property tax bill. According to WalletHub, a $225,550 single-family home would pay an average of $1,499, the 13th-lowest rate in the nation.