Election Department Newsletter

Latest News and Updates from the Elections Department

The holiday season is upon us and the the staff of the Recorder's Office and Elections Department would like to wish you a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! We are extremely grateful to our poll workers and temporary staff for their invaluable assistance in facilitating three successful elections in 2024. We eagerly anticipate implementing further enhancements to our procedures in 2025 to ensure even greater efficiency and effectiveness in our electoral processes.

Lunch & Learn

Are you currently one of our active poll workers or would like to learn more about the process? We're kicking off a monthly series of 30 minute educational workshops where we will take a closer look at a specific election procedure to build your understanding of the task.

County Recorder Update

As your newly elected County Recorder, I'm proud to report that we took significant steps in the effort to restore a higher level of confidence in Pinal County's elections in 2024. With nearly 350K voters making their voices heard during a Presidential Preference, Primary and General election, the dynamic team's hard work resulted in three successful elections.

Dana Lewis Pinal County Recorder

Our Voter Education Working Group will reconvene on January 27, 2025 at 2:00 p.m. in the PINAL VOTES facility where we will discuss this and look for input from our community.

🎄 Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays! 🎄

Have a question?

Elections are complex and have layers of procedures, policies and legal guidelines from the state and federal government from which we administer the election.

From election equipment and polling places to ballot security and chain of custody, each process we perform is based on statute and industry best practices. If you have a question, click the link below to submit it to us and we'll feature it in an upcoming newsletter!

Send Us Your Questions!

This month's featured question:

What signature do you use to verify my ballot?

Signature verification staff review the signature on the affidavit envelope against known signatures in your official voter registration file. The signature verification process has multi-level checks to ensure only valid signatures are counted. It's important to provide a phone number on the affidavit envelope as we use it to contact voters with a questionable signature. State law provides voters with questionable signatures three business days after a local election to confirm their signature and five calendar days after a large, federal election.