REPORTS FROM MARICOPA County, Arizona, election officials indicated early on Tuesday that around 20 percent of its 223 polling places were experiencing issues with vote tabulation machines. Donald Trump and other commentators responded by stoking conspiratorial fears of fraud and discouraging voters from using secure drop boxes at polling places to have their vote tabulated at central county election offices.

“Reports are coming in from Arizona that the Voting Machines are not properly working in predominantly Republican/Conservative areas,” the former president wrote. “Can this possibly be true when a vast majority of Republicans waited for today to Vote? Here we go again? The people will not stand for it!!!”

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County election officials told Rolling Stone in a statement that “technical staff are working to resolve an issue with tabulators and investigating the cause” and that voters have “a number of options to choose from if the Vote Center is experiencing a problem with a precinct tabulator.” Voters have been told they have three alternative options:

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Republican commentators and even Arizona GOP officials immediately cast doubt on the use of secure drop boxes, a common practice in elections. Arizona GOP Chairwoman Dr. Kelli Ward claimed that ballots submitted to the county via “Box 3” would not be tabulated on Election Day, with influential right-wingers like Charlie Kirk and Jack Posobiec telling voters to “not trust” that their vote would be counted at all, and to instead wait until the issue was fixed at their polling place or find another location.