Pinal County has released its report detailing why 507 additional ballots were tallied in the statewide recount results released today. The report describes the various discrepancies and concludes as follows:
After performing reconciliation of ballots cast, accounting for Fed only and provisional ballots, reviewing multiple hours of video footage, speaking with a number of inspectors
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