$200,000 gone to waste' as Arizona county buys unusable 'fraud-proof' ballot paper:
Tall tales about China influencing the 2020 presidential election with nefarious
bamboo-filled ballots were ridiculed by most elections experts -- but not by Cochise County Recorder David Stevens.
CNN's Donie O'Sullivan reported on Friday that Stevens has invested $200,000 in purported "fraud-proof" paper to use for ballots in elections, only to see the returns on that investment go up in smoke.
"There were concerns... that people were making their own ballots and then interjecting them into the system, they were coming from foreign countries" he told O'Sullivan. "Maybe we can make our paper more secure, so we would know quicker or easier if it really is a valid Arizona ballot or if it is not."
O'Sullivan then went on to document how "a missed deadline and other bureaucratic snafus" derailed efforts to get the special paper used in 2024 election ballots, which led him to say to Stevens that the effort was "essentially $200,000 gone to waste."