How the ballot recount at the Coliseum will affect the 2022 elections

On election night in 2020, Fox News made the first formal
projection suggesting that Joe Biden could win the presidency by
saying Biden had won Arizona. Almost immediately, that projection
set off a firestorm in the White House, capped by then-President
Donald Trump suggesting that the election was stolen. The backlash
in Arizona came swiftly. Protesters gathered at the state Capitol,
claiming a stolen election even as the votes were still being
counted. Maricopa County became the national epicenter of the
so-called “big lie” that widespread fraud allowed Biden to claim
victory. By the end of 2020, the Arizona Republican Party assembled
“alternate electors” to justify setting aside election results in
Washington, D.C.  About the same time, Arizona state Senate
President Karen Fann, a Republican, set her chamber on a fateful
path as well. She launched an unprecedented review of Maricopa
County’s ballots in search of the fraud so many had claimed in
Arizona. This week on The Gaggle, a podcast by The Arizona Republic
and azcentral.com, host Ron Hansen is joined by Arizona
Republic reporters Mary Jo Pitzl and Robert Anglen, who helped
cover the ballot review and the fallout since then. They discuss
the year since the ballot review concluded, what it accomplished,
and how it will affect the 2022 elections come November. Learn more
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