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letter dated Saturday by Assistant Attorney General Jennifer
Wright calls for county officials to report by Nov. 28 on the
specific problems related to the printers at each location as
well on how poll workers were trained.
The problems with the machines on Nov. 8 were seized upon by
Republican former President Donald Trump and his followers, who
claimed without evidence that it was a sign of election fraud.
About 20% of electronic vote tabulation machines in Maricopa,
the state's most populous county, malfunctioned for a few hours
on Election Day and technicians were deployed to fix them,
Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer said at the time.
A judge in Maricopa County rejected a Republican request to keep
polls open past their usual closing time of 7 p.m., saying
Republicans had provided no evidence that a voter was unable to
cast a ballot because of the machine problems.
Arizona saw Trump-backed Republicans defeated in two
high-profile races. Blake Masters lost to Democratic Senator
Mark Kelly, and Kari Lake lost the governor's race to Democrat
Katie Hobbs.
Lake has yet to concede and continues to make unsubstantiated
claims about election improprieties on her Twitter feed.
(Reporting by Chris Gallagher in Washington; Editing by Scott
Malone and Sandra Maler)
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