Y'all have come up with some interesting "east coast" responses to this issue.... but in Maricopa County.... it's worse than you can imagine. Maricopa County reminds me of an HOA gone way off the tracks. Biggs has found a way into my phone and he calls me with a strange message periodically.... and I'm registered Independent.
The first election cycle I was out here....2016... I of course worked the election.... after all, I've been an election judge in Calvert and Prince Georges County for quite some time. I found their data base to be sad. They had just adjusted the election districts.... you know gerrymandered.... and it was a chore. People got left off the rolls..... and it was just a database rebuild issue. They had their voter registration cards and their picture identification.
The second cycle... 2018 I went to one training and found out that things had not changed.... so I refused to work as election judge and told them what they had to fix.
Then a new girl was elected to head the elections during the 2018 election cycle... and she cleaned everything up. I ordered a ballot by mail... I tracked it from the election office to my mail box.... and then I voted in person with that ballot... and they told me which box to deposit it in...it wasn't even taken out of the envelope I sealed it in after marking... the box was sealed and secure.... and then I got an email it had been voted when it was opened and counted.
The next election.... the 2020 election.... I ordered my ballot by mail again.... and the cycle worked excellent.... I was notified when my ballot was mailed to me.... and when it arrived back in their hands after I filled it out and mailed it back.... and when it went through the scan.
Now... if the 2020 elections were skewed again.... then all those Republicans we voted into their various offices will lose their spots too.
I live in a neighborhood of Republicans.... according to them back then ..... the election was rigged and COVID is just a cold. When the babies were teargassed at the border.... bible study classes broke out in arguments. Then people started to die from COVID.... and my geezer neighbors started wearing masks.... but they refused social distancing.... after all... it's just a cold. Now... they social distance, they don't wear a mask.... January 6th is the big argument... not the election... the sedition.... yep that's what they call it.... and they are all disgusted with every Republican running for Governor.
The wall is a big deal here... because it CANNOT be built in its entirety.... it will cross both private property and Indian Reservations.... and no one can change that. The wall will only change where the illegals cross. One guy running for Sherriff says he will put up no trespassing signs and shoot anyone who violates his signs. Abortion is now illegal in Arizona.... because of a law that goes back to when it was the "territory". That's going to be the trigger here.... not the election..... not the wall.... not trump.... abortion.
Y'all know I'm pretty good at politics.... and I've moved to eastern Maricopa County..... and I've seen it first hand.
They did have a problem with the database after some redistricting in 2016..... but trump lost fair and square in 2020.
And that's the rest of the story.... if they do vote to refute.... the people will refute... they are angry over abortion!!!! and our schools suck too!!!