Arizona
NBC News: How the nation’s biggest battleground county is trying to quash election conspiracy theories
Alex Tabet of NBC News reports on what Maricopa County has done to increase transparency and explanations around their election procedures.
The onslaught of misinformation, disinformation and noise surrounding elections in Maricopa County — where more than 2 million people cast ballots in 2020 in one of the closest states in the country — prompted county election officials to take steps to increase transparency at the Maricopa County Tabulation and Election Center. Maricopa has also invested some $15 million in new equipment in a bid to deliver results quicker and tamp down the skepticism associated with its results.
One of the steps taken by the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors in an effort to increase transparency is to add more surveillance cameras at the tabulation center, allowing Arizonans to monitor proceedings from home. The new batch of cameras brings the total to more than 20, including surveillance at drop-box locations, seven different angles at the tabulation center, and four different angles where ballot processing — verifying signatures on mail ballots before the ballots themselves can be counted — takes place.