This is where Arizona is at....and its good news for Biden

[sunonmars]

Link to tweet

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of the around 60K left to report.

46K of them are in the 2 counties Biden is winning well. Pima and Maricopa.

[Eliot Rosewater]

1. I am watching this every 5 minutes 18 hours a day....I want no excuse for

the traitors, the GOP when they go full on board with a coup, which they seem to be doing now.

If they force us to defend our country it will be known to all that Joe Biden and Kamala Harris handily won this election both the vote and ec.

[BannonsLiver]

2. So is this day 3 or 4 they've been down to 60k ballots?

I’ve lost track. Every day it’s 60k ballots. Tomorrow it will be 60k too.

[sweetloukillbot]

3. So what you're saying is you haven't been paying attention then

Because it was around 90K yesterday, 120K the day before, 140K the day before that...
But keep criticizing how the DEMOCRATIC Secretary of State is doing her job in the midst of armed protesters outside where the votes are being counted.

[BannonsLiver]

8. I've been following the media, who have been saying 60-70k for 3-4 days

Sorry not sorry that is so upsetting for you.

[crimycarny]

14. Whoa!

Who said anything about criticizing the SOS? I’ve seen similar news reports where it seems they keep reporting the same number, or sometimes it even goes up! I remember saying to my husband a couple of days ago “wait, yesterday they said there were 100K outstanding and now they say 200k?”. But I never blamed AZ for that, I assumed it was the news agencies bungling the count.

I can’t speak for anyone else but the frustration with the slow pace doesn’t automatically equate to criticizing the SOS. I’m grateful they are being careful, but the wait is agonizing. That doesn’t mean the wait is anyone’s FAULT.

[crimycarny]

22. Btw--glad to know SOS is a Dem

I didn’t realize that. Comforting to know. I don’t trust some of the Republican SOS.

[Blue_true]

39. She won the office in 2018. nt

[crimycarny]

41. Reminder of how important midterms are

Hopefully we can keep up enthusiasm for 2022.

[Iwasthere]

4. Exactly! Jesus! They said they could handle 70,000 a day right?

Come onnnnnn!

[BannonsLiver]

10. Apparently

Arizonans are VERY SENSITIVE about how SLOWLY they count votes there.

[sweetloukillbot]

13. California still has millions outstanding

Are you complaining about them?
Is there a reason you are so upset that Arizona is still going?
Mostly I’m sensitive about people who don’t know what’s going on complaining.

[BannonsLiver]

16. So is New York State

But there’s something different about New York and California relative to Arizona that I can’t quite put my finger on....

Oh wait...There’s literally a combined 50 MILLION MORE PEOPLE in those states than reside in AZ.

[sweetloukillbot]

18. So why exactly are you so upset that Arizona isn't working on your timetable

Anyone who pays attention to the state could've told you that Biden won it last Weds. But keep complaining, I'm sure that Sec. Hobbs cares about what internet rando has to say about the job she's doing, what between counting the votes, curing the provisional ballots and fending off frivolous lawsuits about Sharpies.

[BannonsLiver]

26. Probably because the outcome in those states is fully known

Duh

In any event, I hope she has more articulate folks speaking on her behalf than what I’ve seen here.

[sweetloukillbot]

31. So take it up with the networks then

States don't make the call. Anyone who follows Arizona politics has known what the results would be since Wednesday.
And that it would take a week or so to complete the count.

[PTWB]

19. Do you think the number of counters is the same in all three states?

[BannonsLiver]

23. LOL

I would think each state would have a number of “counters” that is commensurate with their voting population. Maybe AZ doesn’t have enough. That could be why the state is moving so slowly relative to others with similar populations.

[PTWB]

36. Which states that have similar populations and similar voting methods are counting...

at disproportionately faster rates?

[Blue_true]

40. Look, everyone that is sane wants this thing to be over with and

Joe and Kamala moving ahead to lead the country out of the mess Trump has it in. But, that is no reason to write things that are borderline insulting.

I am confident that Trump can’t win Arizona, given the counties that have the vast majority of the votes left to count. So I am in the “stay calm and let the process work” camp.

[Rice4VP]

24. Is this a serous question? California was called as soon

as the polls closed. Arizona is a swing state and should be more responsible in this count. There is no reason to take over a week to count some votes. Mail ballots is their norm.

[sweetloukillbot]

27. Arizona was called on Tuesday and that call has held

Despite what some news organizations think.

Why the sudden "WHY HASN'T ARIZONA FINISHED COUNTING!!!!"
And when detailed reasons are provided, "THEY SAID THAT YESTERDAY! AND IT'LL BE EXACTLY THE SAME TOMORROW."

I'm just curious why certain posters are so invested in this idea that Arizona is fucking around. Yet they aren't complaining about other states.

[vsrazdem]

25. Arizona and California have already been called. Once AZ is called the

race is over, he doesn't need GA and PA, so there is no excuse for stonewalling from the GOP.

[crimycarny]

17. perhaps the recount laws?

In AZ the margin requiring a recount is razor slim. Recounts above that slim margin CANNOT be requested. So I’d say they are being d*mm careful about making sure every vote is counted correctly.

[BannonsLiver]

20. Not sure that would have any impact, but okay.

[vsrazdem]

28. No Az recount is a tenth of a percent or 200 votes, whichever is less. No Chance.

[marybourg]

5. No. Yesterday it was 75k. I remember

because I posted about it.

They really are very careful. One year they called because they noticed my DH’s signature had changed. I told them he had Parkinson’s, and they said o.k.. When he died they didn’t send his automatic ballot ever again, though I hadn’t notified them

[Sucha NastyWoman]

7. Maybe they were spending their time investigating the issues related to provisional ballots

Maybe they didn’t run any through the machine. It takes time make the right decision about whether or not to include a ballot or not.

[sweetloukillbot]

33. This is exactly what is going on

There are a ton of provisionals, special access (braille, etc), and ones that need cured. Today is the final day for curing.

[maxsolomon]

6. just pokin' along.

no rush, guys, there's just a soft coup attempt underway.

i must say, however, that AK is making AZ look lightning fast.

[asiliveandbreathe]

9. A really funny, but sad story about my experience and AZ workers..I won't paint

with a totally broad brush..as ATT was downsizing in '98 many of us transferred from everywhere to AZ - a 900 employee facility, soon became a 2000 employee facility -

Coming in from Mass..I found myself constantly asking for an attitude adjustment for myself..I had a hard time downshifting to slow or reverse in the work force..seemed as though everyone was on vacation everyday...

This does not surprise me one bit!!!!!

[miyazaki]

32. Apparently they're still on vacation.

[BannonsLiver]

11. Hey tomorrow they'll be down to 60k ballots.

Again.

[Cha]

12. Damn that does sound Hopeful! TY!

[triron]

15. Yes for optimism.

[Cha]

21. TY.. I'm latching on to I can in

these perilous times.

[LAS14]

29. I thought Trump was getting above his needed margins in Maricopa??? I'd be absolutely...

... delighted to find out I'm wrong. What's been happening in Marocopa over the last few days?

tia
las

[sweetloukillbot]

34. Nope - he's underperforming and won't win

He makes his margins on the small red rural counties, and comes close in Pinal. But Maricopa and Pima, even if he wins, he's still not making the 60% margin he needs.

[StarryNite]

30. 54,283 remaining votes according to...

[link:https://alex.github.io/nyt-2020-election-scraper/battleground-state-changes.html#|

Arizona recounts:
A. A recount of the vote is required when the canvass of returns in a primary or general election shows that the margin between the two candidates receiving the greatest number of votes for a particular office, or between the number of votes cast for and against initiated or referred measures or proposals to amend the Constitution of Arizona, is less than or equal to the lesser of the following:

1. One-tenth of one per cent of the number of votes cast for both such candidates or upon such measures or proposals.
2. Two hundred votes in the case of an office to be filled by state electors and for which the total number of votes cast is more than twenty-five thousand.

Requested recount procedures
Arizona does not allow requested recounts.

[link:https://ballotpedia.org/Recount_laws_in_Arizona|

[StarryNite]

35. What's left to count in Arizona

Arizona voting results: Biden's lead narrows, but not fast enough for Trump to prevail
Rob O'Dell
Arizona Republic

~snip~

What's left to count
Counting ballots in Arizona typically takes many days, partly because so many voters use early ballots. These can be returned up until the end of Election Day, but those late-arriving ballots must be verified and then counted in the days that follow.

Now, though, most early ballots have been counted. More than half the ballots that remain are provisional ballots, which are given to voters who can't verify their ID at the polls, those who received a mail-in ballot but decided to vote in person or those that voted in the wrong polling place if their county did not use voting centers.

[link:https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/politics/elections/2020/11/09/arizona-voting-results-bidens-lead-narrows-but-not-fast-enough-trump-prevail/6229592002/|

[oswaldactedalone]

37. There are between

45,856 and 50,722 votes remaining to be counted depending on which site you're looking at. Joe's lead is 13,582. 90% of the votes remaining are in Maricopa and Pima counties. Unless, there's something out of the ordinary, this should be about a 50-50 split. Still too close to call.

[triron]

38. Yes but good news. Trump just won a 5200 dump from Maricopa by 56%.