Maricopa County machine failure locations in 2022 election.
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As voting centers opened across Maricopa County at 6 am, some voters were turned away at multiple locations amid reported power outages and what The Gateway Pundit has learned were printer and voting machine malfunctions.
Maricopa County announced that one location was “temporarily closed” early this morning before the polls opened. They later announced that the voting center was “successfully opened at 6 a.m.”
Due to a power outage, the Vote Center located at the Laveen Elementary School District Office is
temporarily closed. Please visit https://t.co/2Hs9CznmWK to find a nearby voting location. https://t.co/4RgNWqTRhT
— Maricopa County Elections (@MaricopaVote) November 3, 2026
In another post, the county wrote, “All 254 Vote Centers across Maricopa County were open on time at 6:00 am.”
However, Maricopa County Republican Party Chairman Craig Berland told The Gateway Pundit that there were issues at several polling locations, including inoperable ballot printers and tabulators unable to read ballots.
“I started texting the elections department at 530 this morning with problems,” he said.
“The Board of Supervisors and their cronies have been holding the banner that they’re doing what they’re doing so as not to disenfranchise voters and make it easy to vote.”
According to Berland, the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors made a seemingly pointless change to the poll books, which contain voter data including voting precincts and districts, and the printers that were already on site and working during early voting.
“For example, and I mean this isn’t opinion; this is fact. All the early voting sites, they had election equipment, and I’m specifically talking about poll books and printers that were put in there by the Recorder’s Office because it’s early voting,” Berland explained.
“Then, on Friday night, which was the end of early voting, all the poll workers had to remove all of the poll books and all the printers and replace all that equipment with identical board of supervisors equipment. And I don’t know exactly what it costs, but I’ve heard as much as $34 million is what you and I paid for that to happen.”
Berland said all of the problems with printers at the voting locations “could have all been preempted because you had 30 days or 15 days or 10 days or whatever it might have been of the site being open using existing equipment.”
Berland further confirmed that some voters are experiencing problems with vote tabulators in the case of undervotes, where they don’t fill out every single race on the ballot. Just like during the 2022 elections in Maricopa County, tabulators in at least one voting location are misreading ballots and not counting votes. Instead, voters are being told to place their uncounted ballot in a mysterious “drawer 3” to be counted off-site later. “That’s just bullshit,” Berland said with frustration over the tabulator errors. “You’ve got a hundred different judges, and I’m sure 90% of the people don’t fill them all out.”
Some locations are experiencing printer or tabulator malfunctions on all equipment at the site, while others are experiencing only some equipment failures, which are likely to delay the voting process and cause longer lines.
“I’m definitely concerned that apathy is going to contribute to the races,” Berland said, noting the lower turnout in midterm elections and slamming the county for contributing to voter discouragement. “I can’t tell you the number of people that I’ve talked to that, you know, I’m trying to pull them off the edge before they jump,” he said, as voters ask, “Why should I bother voting? It doesn’t count anyhow.”
“Obviously,” he said, the issues are “going to hurt the Republicans more than the Democrats historically because Republicans vote on election day.”
Still, “Our message to all of Maricopa County and to the people that follow us globally is: No matter what, vote,” he said. “My position is that no vote is a vote for communism.”
According to election data analysts at Stealth Analytics, roughly 45,000 people had voted in person across Maricopa County as of 10 am local time, with Republicans accounting for 44.5% of voters and Democrats making up nearly half at just 22.9% of the total. Independents are turning out at 32.6%.
Maricopa County general – Election Day poll voters (11/3):
10 AM update.
44,637 have voted in person across 254 vote centers.
Reps 19,861 (44.5%)
Dems 10,227 (22.9%)
Ind/Other 14,549 (32.6%)
Reps lead by 9,634 ballots (+21.6 pp) of 44,637 in. https://t.co/diuWg5JKkz
— Stealth Analytics (@StealthPolling) November 3, 2026
Maricopa County Communications Manager Jessie Caraveo declined to immediately comment but said she would call back with more information. We have not heard back yet.
We are also hearing reports of issues in Pima County, the second largest county by population in the state.
This comes after Maricopa County announced that multiple voting locations were closed due to “power related issues” on Monday.
Berland told The Gateway Pundit that at one location “somebody triggered a fire alarm and forced an evacuation of the polling center,” and another person “shut the power off” in what he described as “apparent sabotage.”
This comes after Republican Kari Lake ran against Democrat Katie Hobbs for governor in 2022 and had the election stolen by less than 1% after catastrophic voting machine failures at 60% of polling locations in Maricopa disenfranchised tens of thousands of voters.
Lake told The Gateway Pundit on Monday, “Maricopa County is up to its old tricks again. Vote centers are closing over supposed power issues, a fire alarm got pulled at a site in heavily Republican Mesa, voters are being told during ballot curing that ballots were cast they didn’t know about, and we’re still dealing with the same late-night activity at the tabulation center.”
“Arizonans are done with the Board of Supervisors’ ‘nothing to see here’ routine while trust keeps eroding. We the people deserve clean, transparent elections. It’s past time for the DOJ and FBI to step in and investigate,” she added.
Lake also responded to this morning’s news on X, writing, “The bullshit continues.”
“PRO-TIP: Maricopa County voters, find a voting center in the most liberal part of town and go there. My gut tells me you’ll find fewer equipment malfunctions, shorter lines, no electricity issues, plenty of ballots, etc,” she added.
The bullshit continues….
PRO-TIP: Maricopa County voters, find a voting center in the most liberal part of town and go there. My gut tells me you’ll find fewer equipment malfunctions, shorter lines, no electricity issues, plenty of ballots, etc..
— Kari Lake (@KariLake) November 3, 2026
This is a developing story.
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