What You Need To Know About Arizona's Election Day 'SharpieGate'
The Daily Signal Podcast
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🗓️ 5 November 2020
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
Laurie Aguilera says her polling place gave her a Sharpie marker to fill out her ballot on Election Day in Maricopa County, Arizona, despite what her lawyers call state guidelines directing that "felt-tip writing utensils not be used."
Ink ended up bleeding through Aguilera's ballot, and election officials would not accept it. The Public Interest Legal Foundation filed a lawsuit on her behalf, “requesting restoration of ballots for voters who were told to fill out their ballots using Sharpie markers but subsequently had those ballots canceled.”
Many voters are concerned about election fraud and how ballots are being counted in the wake of the close presidential election between Donald Trump and Joe Biden. Should voters be concerned about election results being illegitimate, or significant fraud occurring?
Logan Churchwell, spokesman for the Public Interest Legal Foundation, joins the podcast to discuss.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Daily Signal Podcast for Friday, November 6th. I'm Rachel Deljudice. |
| 0:10.0 | Today's show is another special election edition. We still don't have all the election results, |
| 0:15.2 | but we will be talking with Logan Churchwell, spokesman for the Public Interest Legal Foundation, |
| 0:20.3 | about a lawsuit filed by the Public Interest Legal Foundation requesting restoration of ballots for |
| 0:26.0 | voters who were told to fill out their ballots using Sharpie markers but subsequently |
| 0:30.7 | had those ballots cancelled. |
| 0:34.0 | And please don't forget. If you're enjoying this podcast, please be sure to leave a review or a five-star |
| 0:38.0 | rating on Apple Podcasts and encourage others to subscribe. I'm joined on the Daily Signal podcast by Logan Churchwell. He's the spokesman for the Public Interest Legal Foundation. |
| 0:56.5 | Logan is great to have you with us on the Daily Signal Podcast. |
| 0:59.7 | Thank you for having me. Well so all votes are still being counted and we still don't know who the next president will be. |
| 1:05.8 | Your organization filed a lawsuit requesting restoration of ballots for voters who were told to fill out |
| 1:11.6 | their ballots using Sharpie markers, but subsequently had those |
| 1:15.0 | ballots cancelled. |
| 1:16.5 | So Logan, first off, can you walk us through what happened with this alleged situation? |
| 1:21.3 | Sure. So in Maricopa County, we started hearing results, some from our local council and others just |
| 1:29.8 | from concerned voters saying, you know, I've been voting in Maricopa in person my whole life and for the first time |
| 1:35.4 | ever they handed me this Sharpie and that didn't seem right and whenever I went to I voted my ballot as normal anyway. |
| 1:44.0 | And when I went to go feed the ballot into the optical scan machine, |
| 1:49.0 | it started spitting back errors and could not read the ballot. |
| 1:53.7 | And then it becomes a rush home to figure out why what happened. |
| 1:58.4 | And eventually what we've learned is this, |
| 2:00.7 | across an unknown number of in-person polling locations around Maricopa County, |
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