Judge declines to require hand count of Arizona ballots

The lawsuit was filed against Secretary of State Katie Hobbs, the Democratic nominee for governor, and the elected supervisors of Maricopa and Pima counties, who oversee elections in the Phoenix and Tucson metro areas.

2022 Elections: Why final results take days, not hours

As election workers spend long hours tallying ballots in Arizona and elsewhere in the days after Aug. 2's primary elections, some critics are arguing they should be finished counting by now, but missing from the criticisms are the realities of modern-day ballot processing.