At a special Board of Supervisors meeting held on Tuesday, July 5, the board approved a solution to the errors found on early voting ballots that left city and town contests off of the ballots in seven Pinal County municipalities:

• Apache Junction
• Casa Grande  
• Eloy
• Mammoth
• Maricopa
• Queen Creek
• Superior

According to a press release, Maricopa County voters in Apache Junction and Queen Creek are not affected by the error. All other cities and towns are not affected, and voters should continue to vote as normal.

Voters who had requested an early ballot in the above cities and towns will now be sent a municipal-only ballot, which they will need to complete and return if they wish to vote in their city or town election, the release stated. Early voters should complete and return their original early voting ballot for federal, state, legislative and county races if they wish to vote in those elections.

Any voter who has already voted or has returned their early voting ballot also will need to complete the municipal ballot in order to vote in city and town contests, according to the release. Municipal contests on the original ballots in the seven affected cities and towns will be invalid and will not be counted. Votes in federal, state, legislative and county contests will be processed as normal.

In addition, there will be in-person voting at polling sites on Election Day for municipal contests in the affected cities and towns. These will be voted on a separate ballot to federal, state, legislative and county contests.

If voters live in unincorporated Pinal County and see a city or town contest on their ballots, they can complete federal, state, legislative and county contests on the ballot and return it as normal. The city/town contests on the ballot will be invalid and not be counted if voted.

The release further stated that, “Elections Director David Frisk addressed the Board of Supervisors and explained that he took full responsibility, that errors were human in nature, and had nothing to do with the statewide voter registration database, referred to as AVID, or any other equipment.”