First posted on Instagram
An election worker at the Maricopa County Ballot Tabulation Center has come forward with allegations that votes for Republican Andy Biggs were systematically discarded during ballot adjudication in Arizona's governor's race, claiming the handling of disputed ballots helped deliver the election to Democratic Governor Katie Hobbs.
The account was shared publicly on Friday, November 6, by journalist Rachel Alexander, who writes for Townhall and Arizona Insiders and is a former Maricopa County elections attorney and prosecutor. Alexander said she received the message from someone working as an adjudicator at the county's ballot tabulation center. The worker has not been publicly identified, and the claims have not been independently verified.
According to the account Alexander posted, adjudicators were seeing Republican ballots marked for Biggs and also for Hobbs, with an X drawn through the Biggs selection. That sent the ballot to adjudication as an overvote, the worker said, and adjudicators then removed the Biggs vote — reading the X as evidence the voter intended to change the selection — so the vote went to Hobbs. The worker also described ballots marked for both Biggs and Lombardo, saying those became overvotes in which neither candidate received a vote. "This is how they stole votes and shaved votes imho," the worker wrote, in the account's own words.
Alexander posted an update on Saturday, November 7, with what she said was a breakdown from her source showing 153,404 ballots sent to adjudication between November 1 and November 6, with 54.70 percent flagged as overvotes, 27.82 percent as ambiguous and 17.27 percent as write-ins. The worker also claimed similar anomalies appeared on Proposition 144 and other ballot items, and said ballot boxes were stored in a hallway that was not secure.
The allegations have not been independently verified, and the figures do not prove Republican votes were stolen — a point the Gateway Pundit, which first reported the account on November 7, acknowledges in its own coverage. Maricopa County officials have not commented on the allegations. Arizona's voter intent guide addresses how crossed-out selections are handled, and county election officials explain that an unresolved overvote affects only the particular contest on a ballot, while other valid selections on the same ballot still count.
Hobbs was declared the winner of the November 3 governor's race, defeating Biggs, the Trump-endorsed Republican congressman. The Associated Press called the race for Hobbs, who led with 1,417,591 votes, or 55.6 percent, to Biggs's 1,082,969, or 42.5 percent — a margin of about 334,600 votes, larger than the 153,404 ballots the source said were sent to adjudication. Biggs acknowledged the result, saying, "We didn't get our turnout." Arizona's official statewide canvass is scheduled for November 23.