By Kevin Stone | KTAR
PHOENIX – Maricopa County on Wednesday committed nearly $3 million to replace election equipment that officials say can’t be reused after it was in the hands of uncertified auditors.
The Republican-led Board of Supervisors in metro Phoenix voted to amend the county’s contract with Dominion Voting Systems to cover the cost of 385 precinct tabulators and nine central counters, plus related election management hardware.
“The frustrating thing is, those were perfectly good machines which passed all of our accuracy tests from the time we first got them in 2019,” Board of Supervisors Chairman Jack Sellers said in a press release.
“The taxpayer paid good money for them, but now this equipment will have to be decommissioned because the Senate didn’t take our warnings about chain-of-custody seriously.”
