Commingled Ballots Contradicting Court Representations (AZ)

Ballot boxes delivered to auditors contained commingled original and duplicate ballots, inconsistently identified, with batch manifests not matching physical contents. In at least one documented box (EVH1/11-07/MC17349), the manifest listed 14 batches of originals while the physical contents contained 7 originals and 8 duplicates with one batch entirely unaccounted. During prior Arizona Supreme Court litigation, the Secretary of State’s counsel represented that original and duplicate ballots “are, by statute, segregated and preserved.”