An election worker inside Maricopa County’s Ballot Tabulation Center has described a pattern that, if accurate, would systematically erase Republican votes for Rep. Andy Biggs in Arizona’s 2026 gubernatorial contest. The account, first shared by journalist Rachel Alexander, comes from a person identifying as a working adjudicator. It alleges that ballots marked for Biggs were repeatedly routed to adjudication as overvotes after an X appeared through the Biggs oval, often alongside a mark for Democrat Katie Hobbs. Adjudicators then removed the Biggs selection on the stated ground that the X showed the voter had changed their mind. The vote went to Hobbs.
The same source reported dual marks pairing Biggs with another candidate, such as Lombardo. In those cases neither vote was counted. Supporting numbers circulated with the claim show more than 153,000 ballots sent to adjudication between November 1 and November 6. Overvotes accounted for 54.70 percent of them, with ambiguous marks at 27.82 percent and write-ins at 17.27 percent. Daily volumes ran from roughly 5,500 to more than 14,000. The message also noted that ballot boxes had been stored in a hallway that was not secure.
These are unverified allegations from an anonymous adjudicator. They do not, by themselves, prove that votes were stolen. What they do is describe a mechanical process in which a common correction mark on Republican ballots is treated as an overvote and resolved against the Republican, while dual marks involving other candidates result in no vote at all. Combined with the unusually high share of overvotes among adjudicated ballots and the reported unsecured storage, the account raises questions that county officials have not publicly answered with transparent data.
Maricopa County has a documented history of tabulator failures, site-book problems, and sudden party-registration changes for Republican voters. Supervisors and the county attorney previously dismissed those reports without full public examination. The current claims fit the same pattern: an internal description of how Republican marks disappear during adjudication, followed by institutional silence. Voters are left with assurances rather than audit trails, chain-of-custody logs, or adjudicator-level data.
Public confidence requires more than a declaration that everything was handled correctly. When more than half the ballots reaching adjudication are flagged as overvotes, and when an inside worker says those overvotes are being resolved by discarding the Republican choice, the process itself becomes the issue. Arizona voters deserve the raw adjudication logs, the images of the marked ballots, and an independent review that does not begin with the assumption that the system worked as intended. Until that happens, the adjudicator’s account stands as one more reason many no longer trust the count.
Josiah Hale
WAA1776
References
- The Gateway Pundit – Election Worker Claims Republican Votes for Andy Biggs Were Discarded During Ballot Adjudication — Over 54% of Adjudicated Ballots Flagged as Overvotes: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/11/election-worker-claims-republican-votes-andy-biggs-were/
- Rachel Alexander reporting and X posts detailing the adjudicator message and daily adjudication totals: https://x.com/Rach_IC/status/2118840662175154198?a=6JDrCxU2jAXDviXTCMo&s=20
- The Intellectual Conservative: https://intellectualconservative.com/articles/questions-swirl-around-democrats-takeover-of-arizona
- Official 2022 investigation printer/tabulator failures on Election Day: https://hsd.maricopa.gov/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=2690
