Maricopa election judge Michele Swinick says she believes that the tabulators were set up to reject ballots. That makes more sense than she could possibly know. That is because the machines were tested the night before and they worked fine but began rejecting ballots when the polls opened the next day. As it turns out on election day the tabulators were set up for a 19-inch ballot, but the election day ballots were 20 inches long.
That caused the voting machine to compress the image by one inch and in doing so it caused the ink not to be dark enough for the tabulator to read. Those votes were rejected by the tabulator. Coincidentally, or not Swinick worked in a precinct where Republicans dominated and unaffiliated voters were the second most plentiful group and Democrats made up a very small portion of the electorate. Strange how that worked out, no?-- More...