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Maricopa County, Arizona, election officials asked voters to be patient with them, saying on Tuesday that it could take nearly two weeks to “complete tabulation of all the ballots that come in.” As of this week, around 400,000 voters in Maricopa County have voted early of the estimated 2.1 million people in the county expected to cast a ballot in the 2024 election, 12 News reported. The county’s election officials said that the length of this year’s ballot, combined with what’s expected to be a large turnout, will slow down the count. In Maricopa County, ballots are two pages long with an average of 79 contests per ballot. “We do expect that it will take between 10 and 13 days to complete tabulation of all of the ballots that come in, but we ask for the community’s patience,” Deputy Elections Director Jennifer Liewer said. “We want to make sure that this is a secure process, but we also want to make sure that it is an accurate process.” Social media users, including X owner Elon Musk, blasted the county on Wednesday. Musk wrote in response to the 12 News report, “Our system is broken.” Our system is broken https://t.co/WslAIex593 — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 23, 2024 Maricopa County Supervisor Bill Gates shot back at Musk, writing, “Our system isn’t broken. @maricopacounty is counting ballots faster than ever and on pace with every other state. Arizona law requires processes that dictate the timing by which we count the ballots. More importantly: I’ll take accuracy and security over speed every time.” Maricopa County, which is the largest county in the battleground state, was at the center of controversy in the aftermath of the 2020 and 2022 elections. In 2020, Republicans raised voter integrity concerns in Maricopa County, and two years later, tabulators in around 70 of the county’s 223 voting centers had issues reading ballots. President Joe Biden defeated former President Donald Trump by just over 2 percentage points in 2020 in Maricopa County after Trump won the county by around 3 percentage points over Hillary Clinton in 2016. Republicans sued in 2020 in an attempt to force Maricopa County to reinspect ballots by hand, but that challenge was dismissed by a Maricopa County Superior Court Judge, the Arizona Republic reported. Assistant Maricopa County Manager Zach Schira said that voting early in the 2024 election, either in person or by mail, would help officials “report more results on election night.” “If I have one message for voters here today, it is this: that the longer ballots and higher interest in this 2024 general election will create longer lines on Election Day, and that’s okay,” Schira said. “But if you want to save time and you want to avoid those lines vote early, either in person or by mail, that’ll save you time, and it’ll help us report more results on election night.” MATT WALSH’S ‘AM I RACIST?’ COMING TO DAILYWIRE+ OCT. 28 Maricopa County Elections Director Scott Jarrett said that officials expect voter turnout to “start approaching very close to those 2020 numbers.” “We are seeing a little bit of a lag of where we were in 2020 but the last few days we’ve actually seen an uptick in turnout,” he added. In Michigan, another battleground state, Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson said earlier this week that election results likely won’t be known until the “end of the day on Wednesday.” “With that said, we will always prioritize accuracy and security over efficiency,” Benson added. “Understanding how much people will want those results, we’re still going to make sure the process is secure and accurate before we put anything out to the public.”

Daily Wire Editor Emeritus Ben Shapiro on Wednesday relayed a personal story about crime in Los Angeles to underscore the reality that such issues are actually what Americans care about, not the latest opposition research dump on former President Donald Trump. Shapiro, who recently spoke at UCLA, said he went out to dinner this week in a nice part of Los Angeles with his wife and another couple. When they left to head home, at around 10:30 p.m., his friends were robbed by three young black males who are still at large. “You want to know why nobody cares about the Left-wing media’s latest oppo dump?” Shapiro explained, both on X and his Wednesday podcast. “The answer is obvious: people care about the quality of their lives. And life is getting worse under Democratic governance.” “Here’s just a quick story,” he continued. “We’re in LA this week. So we decided to go out with some friends, a husband and wife. Nice area of the city, well lit, not too late at night. We finish dinner at around 10:30 and head back to our car. Since my wife and I have 24/7 security, we’re safe. Not so for our friends.” When they got to their car, Shapiro said, “a Hyundai without plates speeds up and stops. Three young black guys jump out of the car (suspect description relevant because they’re still at large!) and rush up to my friend, yank him out of his car, and grab his watch, phone and wallet. They then sprint around the car and grab his wife, start trying to pull off her jewelry. She screams and kicks, and presumably losing time, they take off in top gear down the street.” MATT WALSH’S ‘AM I RACIST?’ COMING TO DAILYWIRE+ OCT. 28 The three suspects have still not been identified by LAPD, Shapiro explained, adding that it took about 15 minutes for police to even arrive on the scene. But that is “not their fault,” he said, but due to Left-wing policies and activism. “LA is wildly understaffed, and the LAPD has been treated horribly by the city government, such that officers have been targeted for simply doing their jobs,” Shapiro said. “I know and am friends with many of them.” “My friend and his wife weren’t armed up, either, because it’s nearly impossible to carry a gun in LA legally, and also because if you shoot a criminal in LA, there’s a solid shot YOU end up in jail,” he said. Shapiro said these two friends have been assaulted more than once on the streets of LA, and there have been no arrests and no prosecutions of the suspects. In one instance, the wife was physically assaulted by a homeless man and the husband had a knife drawn on him. “This is why people increasingly don’t give a s*** about the media’s latest horror story about Trump Saying Bad Things™,” Shapiro mocked. Left-wing outlet The Atlantic recently circulated a story about Trump allegedly disparaging a slain soldier. The soldier’s own family, though, say they support Trump and have criticized The Atlantic for politicizing their family member’s death. “The same people who maintain that street crime is no big deal, or a reflection of institutional racism, or that inflation is hunky dory, or that the biggest issue in American life is whether or not Billy has the right to be called Susan…these are not serious people,” Shapiro said. “But people’s lives are serious business. And bad governance means worse lives for people,” he closed. You want to know why nobody cares about the Left-wing media’s latest oppo dump? The answer is obvious: people care about the quality of their lives. And life is getting worse under Democratic governance. Here’s just a quick story. We’re in LA this week. So we decided to go out… — Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) October 23, 2024 Related: The Atlantic Accuses Trump Of Disparaging Slain Soldier. The Soldier’s Family Responds.