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
maricopa county who want you to know they are going as fast as they can. this is fast for maricopas can yiewrgely takes us anywhere between 10 and 12 days to complete the count and we think we are going to be done by the end of this week. jesse: this is fast? did they hear what happened in florida? but what were you expecting. election day was a disaster in maricopa it the county, 20% of voting machines ran out of ink. they had problems with ball point pens and people lined up some for as long as seven hours to cast their vote. what happens we had two taboo black lives matter, one of the taboo later is not working. okay? the other tabulator is taking about 75% successful. so 25% of them are being misread and it could be a printer issue. or it could be the tabulator itself. so, when it s misread have you an option to put it into what is called box 3. and it gets read. whether it goes downtown and
upset in somewhere like new hampshire where maggie hassan is running a tight race, republicans could gain majority in the senate. john: computations and things to take place to get either side there. it s a real nail-biter going into tonight. i wanted to come back to the problems in arizona for a second and put up on the screen the warning from kari lake s campaign. voter alert, maricopa vote centers, tabulators are down, gives options, ask to use the accessible voting machine, wait until it s fixed, last resort, ask for your ballot to be placed in box or drawer three. but if you do this, the vote will likely not be counted for weeks. that last part there is probably not exactly what the case will be that those ballots will go
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