People probably brought and used their own pens this time around instead of getting the permanent markers.
So many of the votes for Biden were actually for Trump but the permanent marker bleed through on the paper caused issues for the electronic reader sending the ballots for adjudication where the vote could be changed electronically on the scan images for Biden.
Between that and the other groups of ballots printed with the wrong paper dimension settings causing the electronic readers to reject the whole ballot and resulting in them all getting put in the provisional pile for easy replacement or discard after polls closed... Biden won Maricopa.
For a primary, it would likely be pointless to break the page layout on the ballots, so that leaves permanent markers at polling stations as your remaining option.
People probably brought and used their own pens this time around instead of getting the permanent markers.
So many of the votes for Biden were actually for Trump but the permanent marker bleed through on the paper caused issues for the electronic reader sending the ballots for adjudication where the vote could be changed electronically on the scan images for Biden.
Between that and the other groups of ballots printed with the wrong paper dimension settings causing the electronic readers to reject the whole ballot and resulting in them all getting put in the provisional pile for easy replacement or discard after polls closed... Biden won Maricopa.
For a primary, it would likely be pointless to break the page layout on the ballots, so that leaves permanent markers at polling stations as your remaining option.