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Stephen Richer: “We've been told for a long time not to use Sharpies.”

Featuring: Stephen Richer, Republican | Maricopa County Recorder | Arizona

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Maricopa County Recorder-elect Stephen Richer wants to get rid of 'partisan noise'

Published | Video Starts at 03:14

So I think that's something we saw with the Sharpie gate situation, which was, it turns out that the tabulators could read those ballots fine, but they, you know, We've been told for a long time not to use Sharpies. And then, you know, the average voter saw that it bled through onto the other side of the ballot and, you know, that just led to a whole bunch of questions being asked and confidence being damaged. (03:14–03:18)

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Asserts that there has been longstanding advice against using Sharpies on ballots.

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