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Pima County elections officials call November 2024 races secure but flag process delays and staffing strains
Summary
Elections Director Hargrove and Recorder Casares Kelly told the Board of Supervisors the November 2024 general election was secure and successfully completed, but noted late-arriving early ballots, a multi-card ballot design that strained processing, staffing shortfalls, and a voter-registration portal issue that required changes.
Elections Director Hargrove told the Pima County Board of Supervisors on Jan. 21 that staff consider the November 2024 general election the most secure the office has run since she joined the department, even as the election exposed operational bottlenecks.
Hargrove said the county had “learned a lot” about handling a two‑card ballot and processing large volumes of early ballots that arrived close to or on election day. She said ballot duplication and the ‘‘duplication takes a long time’’ procedure was a primary bottleneck and that late-arriving early ballots and provisional ballots required extra verification steps that slowed tabulation.
The recorder, Casares Kelly, told the board her office faced an added workload after a state judicial change altered documentary proof-of-citizenship and proof-of-residency…
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