Arizona State Senator Wendy Rogers (R) is urging a federal investigation into the state’s election processes, expressing concerns that the use of digital voting machines has undermined transparency. She argued that the machines may violate established election integrity standards. Rogers criticized ADA touchscreen ballots as invalid since voters don’t mark them directly.
Rogers also raised security concerns over foreign-made hardware in Arizona’s voting systems and said accepting ballots after Election Day breaks federal deadlines.
Rogers wrote, “Voting machines currently use ballot scanned images, digital markings and other encoded vote data to tabulate votes rather than counting the voter-verifiable, human-readable text. This violates the intent of your order, which calls for the tabulation of votes based on what the voter can see—not what a machine interprets.”
Rogers added that officials “continue to claim compliance by using ADA touchscreen-printed machine ballots as ‘paper ballots,’ despite the fact they are not hand-marked and are encoded with digital vote instructions not visible to the voter.”
A report from Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard highlighted election oversight gaps. The report cited poor voter roll maintenance and weak verification processes.
Rogers wrote, “[V]endors operating in Arizona have acknowledged the use of Chinese-manufactured hardware in voting systems and support devices, raising serious concerns… to election infrastructure security.” She added, “Arizona accepts and counts ballots received after Election Day, in contradiction to 2 U.S.C. § 7 and 3 U.S.C. § 1, and to your policy requiring uniform enforcement of federal law establishing Election Day deadlines.”
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