亚利桑那州投票日：马里科帕县250万选民投票，洪水紧急状态不挡投票
11月3日，亚利桑那州中期选举投票日开始，全州投票站从上午6时开放至晚上7时，晚上7时前排队者仍可投票。当天选民将选出州长、州检察长、州务卿和州教育总监，并填补9个联邦众议员席位，同时决定州及地方多项选票提案和立法机构席位。作为全美第三大投票辖区，马里科帕县约有250万名登记选民，选举日当天有4000多名投票工作人员分布在254个投票点服务。
县选举部门发言人詹妮弗·利沃尔在11月2日的记者会上表示，县里已做好准备，在投票站协助选民；特朗普政府并未表示会派移民与海关执法局人员前往投票站。本轮选举的一个新变量是周末洪水：共和党州众议员亚历克斯·科洛丁和科迪·赖姆11月2日致信县监事会主席，请求宣布紧急状态以恢复Rio Verde Foothills 一带的道路通行；县里当晚宣布了针对非建制地区的本地紧急状态。
州长凯蒂·霍布斯11月2日也宣布全州进入紧急状态，称州政府正与州和县选举官员协调，确保洪水不阻挡任何人投票。
（来源：亚利桑那共和报）
Arizona Election Day: 2.5 Million Maricopa County Voters Head to the Polls as Flood Emergency Declarations Aim to Keep Voting Accessible
Arizona's midterm voting began on November 3, with polls open from 6 a.m. to 7 p.m.; anyone in line by 7 p.m. could still vote. Voters chose a governor, attorney general, secretary of state and superintendent of public instruction, filled nine U.S. House seats, and decided state and local ballot measures and legislative seats. Maricopa County, the nation's third-largest voting jurisdiction, has about 2.5 million registered voters, with more than 4,000 poll workers staffing 254 voting locations. County elections spokesperson Jennifer Liewer said the county was ready to help voters at the polls, and the Trump administration had not indicated it would send ICE personnel to voting sites. A new variable was weekend flooding: Republican state Reps. Alex Kolodin and Cody Reim wrote to the Board of Supervisors on November 2 asking for an emergency declaration to restore road access around Rio Verde Foothills, and the county declared a local emergency for unincorporated areas that night. Gov. Katie Hobbs also declared a statewide emergency on November 2, saying the state was coordinating with state and county election officials so the floods would not stop anyone from voting.
(Source: The Arizona Republic)
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