Arizona county official refutes misinformation about voting centers being shut down
At a press conference, a Maricopa County official debunked misinformation circulating on X about voting centers in the county being shut down due to issues with the printers.
"There have been no vote centers that have been shut down," said Maricopa County Supervisor Bill Gates.
Earlier today, Tyler Bowyer, an executive with Turning Point USA who was charged in the Arizona 2020 fake elector case, posted on X that the right-wing group was sending buses to move people to functioning voting centers in Maricopa County.
"We have reports of multiple vote centers with ink issues in Maricopa County," Bowyer posted.
Gates said the printers are being serviced as usual. "We are out there going ahead and servicing the printers as we normally would," the Maricopa County official said in response to Bowyer's tweets.
The Maricopa County supervisor said that as of Monday, more than 1.5 million voters in the county had returned early ballots. About 70- 75% of those votes will be reported in the first batch of results at 8 p.m., he said.
Gates also said that if voters get in line at 7 p.m., they will have an opportunity to vote no matter how long lines are.
"Stay in line and go ahead and vote," he said.
-ABC News' Laura Romero