Pima County Passes Hand Count Audit of Election
PIMA COUNTY Nov. 10, 2024 – The Pima County Elections Department and representatives of the Democratic, Green, and Republican parties conducted the mandatory hand-count audit of the 2024 General Election Saturday and results were within the legal allowable limits.
The audit verifies the results of vote tabulation by checking the electronic results of randomly selected Vote Centers and batches of Early Ballots against a hand count of those ballots. The audit is required by state law and the results will be reported to the Secretary of State and included in the canvass of the election that will be presented to the Board of Supervisors for its meeting Nov. 21.
The leaders of the political parties appoint the auditors to conduct the audit and randomly select the Vote Centers and Early Ballot batches to be audited. The audit took about 9 hours to complete due to complexities associated with the two-card ballot.
Elections also counted ballots yesterday and posted results to the state’s and county’s election results webpages. Elections is counting Sunday and on Veteran's Day and will post results in the late afternoon each day.
The public can track the progress of the remaining vote count on the tracker webpage maintained by the Arizona Secretary of State’s Office. You can also follow the County’s progress ballot-batch by ballot-batch on the County’s website.
On Friday, Pima County revised its estimate of ballots remaining to be counted on the SOS webpage, which caused the Kari Lake campaign to question the reason for it on the X social media platform, which was formerly known as Twitter. That prompted a strong response from X users in support of Lake’s campaign for Senate.
In response to a letter sent by the campaign to the County, Elections Director Constance Hargrove said, “When we initially reported to the Secretary of State the number of ballots we counted Friday, we mistakenly used the number of cards counted instead of the number of ballots counted. We corrected the number when we reported our second batch of ballots counted later Friday.”
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