Employees work at the Maricopa County Elections ballot processing center in Phoenix, Arizona U.S., October 30, 2020. REUTERS/Edgard Garrido
PHOENIX, AZ/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Unsubstantiated claims alleging some votes cast for President Donald Trump were not counted in Maricopa County, Arizona - an important battleground in the 2020 U.S. election - because voters used Sharpie pens began spreading among right-wing social media accounts on Tuesday night as election results trickled in.
Dubbed “Sharpiegate” by conservatives on social media, the allegations could be used to try to undermine election results in the historically Republican state of Arizona, which the Associated Press called for Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden with 51% of the vote.
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