Pinal Elections, Still Counting

SBINSIDER REPORTING | November 9th, 2024

Pinal\SaddleBrooke Results

As predicted, Ross Teeple handily won the race for Pinal County Sheriff. While Mark Lamb tried to outdo Kari Lake as the Senate nominee, he endorsed and campaigned for Teeple who won with 67% of the votes.

The only other contested County race was for Supervisor in District 4 which was won by Republican Rich Vitiello, a former Maricopa city council member. He joins 4 other Republican on the 5 member board and takes the place of Kevin Smith-Cavanaugh who disgraced himself in office, blaming the county elections department lead by Dana Lewis for cheating him of a victory in the primary for Sheriff.

Readers as why it takes so long for results to be final!

The reason is AZ allows early balloting and many folks do not trust the USPS to deliver their ballot-even though they got the ballot by mail…

So, on election day too many (1.5 million) dropped their ballot at the polling place-when they could have dropped them off at secure centers for 30 days prior…..

The mail-in ballot has 4 pieces. The outside envelope which contains another envelope which has the voter’s signature. That signature must be read by a person and matched to signature on registration file. If OK, then they pullout the ballot itself and scan.

If not OK, they try to “cure” the ballot by contacting the voter by phone.

Other states require mail-in arrive before the election day, Florida for one, and that gives staff time to cure and count. Arizona needs to change!

LD-17, Congress

In the race for LD-17 and was originally thought to be the seats, if flipped to Democrat, would cascade into a Democrat controlled legislature. The rest of the state has already determined that the GOP will stay in control of the both the state Senate and house.

On Saturday, November 9th, the results are not certain (thousands of ballots yet to be counted). The Democrats spent well over $500K to win the two seats with abortion as the key issue. This district was created in 2022 after re-districting and leans about 8 pts GOP so it is likely, the remainder of the ballots will push

Senate race for Vince Leach had him trailing until late Saturday but then grabbed a small lead.

Rachel Jones, elected in 2022, will retain her seat if trends hold. Cory McGarr is likely to be out.

Juan Ciscomani’s race CD 6 race has tee tottered with both holding small leads as more ballots are counted. Current trends have Ciscomani holding his seat.