AZ HB2046

Amends Arizona Revised Statutes section 16-602 to include voting centers alongside precincts in hand count audit procedures for primary, special, general, and presidential preference elections.

Requires hand count audits to begin immediately after precincts or voting centers are selected by lot, rather than waiting for all ballots to be delivered to the central counting center.

Modifies early ballot manual audit procedures by removing language requiring ballots to have been tabulated before selection for audit.

Specifies that hand counts of early ballots must begin within twenty-four hours after completion of tabulation and must begin immediately after batches to be hand counted are selected.

Makes technical clarifications throughout the statute to apply existing hand count procedures to voting centers in addition to traditional precincts.