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PHOENIX (AZFamily) — Newly released surveillance video shows the removal of a Maricopa County ballot scanner during an election earlier this year.
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According to the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors, the incident happened on March 12 while election results were being counted for the Tempe Jurisdictional Election.
Maricopa County Supervisor Debbie Lesko said that she saw security video of a staffer from the recorder’s office taking a ballot scanner off-site in his personal truck.
“What I saw on video was Justin Heap’s chief information officer taking an election machine out of an election building, putting it in what seems to be a private truck, hauling it off over to the recorder’s office,” Lesko described.
Lesko said a pre-tabulation scanner was then taken up an elevator before it was returned about an hour later.
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According to a statement from Heap’s office, the workers did nothing wrong and were trying to use equipment that belongs to the Recorder’s Office.
The scanner was later replaced because county officials believed it had been compromised. The replacement cost about $70,000, according to the Board. Heap called the investigation unfair and accused the Board of “targeting his employees.”
The first ballots are set to go out on June 24.
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