Democrat Kyrsten Sinema pulled ahead of Republican Rep. Martha McSally in Arizona’s Senate race on Friday, prompting an angry President Trump to cry “corruption” and suggest “a new Election.”
“Just out — in Arizona, SIGNATURES DON’T MATCH. Electoral corruption — Call for a new Election? We must protect our Democracy!” the president tweeted aboard Air Force One on his way to France.
It wasn’t immediately clear what Trump was referring to, but he had complained earlier Friday that votes for Democrats were coming “out of the wilderness” in the Grand Canyon State as midterm election votes are counted.
“Now in Arizona, all of a sudden, out of the wilderness, they find a lot of votes,” he said after leaving the White House.
Arizona results typically come in late because residents like to vote early by mail, and a mailed-in ballot requires more work for Arizona elections officials.
State law requires the envelope to be sealed and signed, and for elections officials to match each signature to the one on file with the voter’s registration before even opening the envelope.
In this election, that’s about 1.7 million individual signatures that had to be confirmed, one-by-one. A total of about 2.3 million votes were cast in Arizona.
The state’s Republican secretary of state, Michelle Reagan, said there was another reason: election security.
To ensure against voter fraud, mail ballots dropped off on Election Day — totaling 320,000 — are double-checked with votes cast at the polls to confirm no one voted twice.
“Arizona takes elections seriously — from the poll workers to the county elections officials, and the Secretary of State’s office,” Reagan said in a statement Friday.
“Everybody is working diligently to tabulate all of the election results in a manner that Arizonans can be proud of and, most importantly, trust the results.”
With Post wires
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