Maricopa County: We're ready for 'the Super Bowl of elections' and its 2-page ballot
For the first time in nearly 20 years, voters in Maricopa County will cast their votes on a two-page ballot and election officials say they’re ready, even if that means everything is now double.
“It is an enormous amount of work to do in a very short time,” Maricopa County Director of Elections Scott Jarrett told reporters Wednesday. “This is the Super Bowl of elections, and we are ready.”
There are some 13,000 different ballots in the county, and the average one will include 79 contests, including the presidential race, positions on local school boards, seats in the state legislature as well as judicial retention. The last time voters have been given a two-page ballot was in 2006, when there were 19 ballot measures.
Jarrett told reporters that, while much of the focus on why the ballot has become so long this year has been on the large number of ballot propositions, most of which were sent by lawmakers to avoid Gov. Katie Hobbs’ veto pen, there are other reasons for the length.
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