The Maricopa County Internal Audit Department issued a review of primary election day, but it left a major question unanswered.
That question is whether a contractor supplied enough technicians on primary day and the day before to set up neighborhood polling locations. Sixty-two polling sites were unopened when voting was supposed to start at 6 a.m.
County Recorder Adrian Fontes said the contractor, Tempe-based Insight, didn’t fulfill its contractual duties. Insight disputes that.
In releasing the review, County Auditor Michael McGee said in a letter to the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors that his department is “still in the process of reviewing information related to these services.”
In an echo of McGee, Steve Chucri, Chairman of the Board of Supervisors, said the new report is to help prepare for November.
“The auditors are identifying problems, at the same time finding solutions given the tight time frame we have, the very short runway between now and the general election.”
The County Recorder’s Office disputed many of the conclusions the audit department made in the preliminary review, and released its own long-awaited report.
One point of confusion for voters was the…
