An election official in Maricopa County, Arizona, on Friday downplayed the discovery of roughly 2,288 ballot envelopes that were misplaced by poll workers and discovered days after the election.
Two bins containing the envelopes with ballots were improperly left in a ballot drop box on Election Day, according to ABC 15, and were discovered three days later.
The sealed bins were processed and tabulated within hours of their discovery. Of those, about 30 envelopes showed evidence of signature verification issues, according to AZ Central, and it was unclear how many remained unresolved and uncounted by the deadline.
Despite the fumbling of well over 2,000 Maricopa County residents’ votes, Jennifer Liewer, the county’s Deputy Elections Director, seemed unfazed by the error.
“Humans run our elections, our community members run our elections, and there are going to be mistakes that are made,” she shrugged.
“The important thing is that we have a process and a redundancy in our system to make sure that, when a mistake is made, we are able to quickly correct it,” Liewer added.
JUST IN Two boxes of uncounted ballots found days after Maricopa County’s election, per county elections officials. Number of uncounted ballots not disclosed. pic.twitter.com/QUZLrgvngg
— Brahm Resnik (@brahmresnik) November 7, 2025
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Arizona Republican Party Chair Gina Swoboda expressed a slightly higher level of curiosity about what may have happened to these sealed bins and why they were misplaced in the first place.
“Our legal counsel is sending an inquiry to determine how the ballot boxes were missed, verifying chain of custody is intact, and steps being taken to ensure this does not reoccur,” she said, according to AZ Central.
Maricopa County Recorder Justin Heap, a Republican, said the incident was “deeply disappointing,” noting that “these ballots were forgotten and left unattended by poll workers employed by the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors.”
🚨MARICOPA COUNTY BOS FAIL
This is a chain of custody & process failure by the BOS — AGAIN!@ThomasGalvin insisted on @MaricopaVote running the ballot replacement facilities and drop boxes — even though the law says it’s the Recorder’s responsibility
They are notorious for… https://t.co/V2kLFsl3Wy
— Merissa Hamilton 🗳 ⛽ 🗽🔥 (@merissahamilton) November 7, 2025
Officials in Maricopa County, Arizona’s most populous county, have long struggled to get ballots counted in a timely fashion through several election cycles.
A report by the Economist last year, prior to the presidential election, cited Maricopa County as a primary culprit in a story on how “a culture of conspiracy haunts Arizona’s elections.”
“Since 2020, Arizona has been embroiled in controversy over the fairness of its elections,” they wrote.
Heap explains that this latest report on mishandled ballot envelopes “undermines voter confidence” in Maricopa, an understatement if ever there was one.
RedState will keep readers updated on this case as new developments warrant.
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