Here are the counties with voting machine problems yesterday

Given the chaotic nature of the 2020 elections — all thanks to an influx of private money into election offices and an unprecedented expansion of unsupervised mail-in voting — one would think that election officials throughout the country would have readjusted in preparation for the 2022 midterms. Sadly, that isn’t the case.

Throughout Election Day, some Americans have been (unsurprisingly) encountering myriad problems when going to cast their ballots at their local precinct. In several key states across the country, local election officials are confirming a variety of troubles at the ballot box, ranging from malfunctioning voting machines to paper shortages.

Arizona
In Maricopa County, which happens to be Arizona’s most populous locality, election officials are reporting problems with vote tabulation machines in roughly one-fifth of the county’s voting locations. In a video posted to the Maricopa County Elections Department’s Twitter page at 10:52 a.m. ET, Maricopa Board of Supervisors Chairman Bill Gates and County Recorder Stephen Richer confirmed that there are issues at “about 20 percent” of the county’s voting locations where “some of the ballots” that are run through the vote tabulator are “not going through.”