An Arizona voter carries her ballot to a polling place to vote in the 2018 primary election in Phoenix.
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By Caitlin Sievers || Arizona Mirror
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Republicans are once again criticizing elections officials in Maricopa County after learning that more Democrats than Republicans worked the polls in the August primary election.
The Republican National Committee on Sept. 9 sent a letter to the Maricopa County Attorney’s Office, slamming the county for hiring 857 Democrats to work the polls on Aug. 2 but only 712 Republicans.
In the letter, the RNC also expressed concerns that there was “potential for this inequity to be repeated in the forthcoming general election.”
This is just the most recent in a laundry list of criticisms that Republicans have hurled at the Maricopa County Elections Department over the past two years, including through their multimillion dollar partisan “audit” of the 2020 presidential election by the now-defunct firm Cyber Ninjas.
The Maricopa County Elections Department told the Arizona Mirror that it follows state law and aims “for equal representation from the two major political parties as we fill temporary election worker positions,” sometimes even going above and beyond statutory requirements.
