Judge Orders Pause of Recount In Arizona

A judge ordered the Arizona Senate to “pause” its recount of Maricopa County’s general election ballots due to the lack of proper security to protect ballots, voting machines and voter information, the Arizona Republic reports.

Election procedures require that only red pens are used to ensure ballots are not tampered with, but the Arizona Republic spotted “auditors” using blue pens which can be read by ballot processing machines.