I don’t know about you, but I always kind of like to get election results as soon as possible. Evidently our locally elected officials – State Representatives Chaplik and Kolodin along with State Senator Kavanagh – don’t care about the time it takes for ballots to be counted. All voted in favor of House Bill 2722.

HB 2722 “Elections; option; full hand count” basically states that any Arizona county can forego the electronic tabulation of ballots and go back to a full hand count. Now, in a small county that might be doable for whatever reason but, in Maricopa County, probably not the case.

Speaking of reasons, I can’t see how hand counts could be any more accurate or more cost efficient than machine counts. Remember the Cyber Ninjas?