Numerous problems appeared to have existed in Grant County during Early Voting.
Emails obtained by the Reckoning show a series of issues the Arkansas Secretary of State's office attempted to address with the Grant County Election Office.
On Feb. 20 at 12:53 p.m., Angela Stevens, Elections Coordinator for the Arkansas Secretary of State, sent a mass email that included Pualani Berry about the Logic and Accuracy (L&A) test. Counties are supposed to conduct the test seven days prior to early voting as required by Arkansas law.
Berry, whose title on the email is "Grant County Deputy Clerk," responded at 4:24 p.m. "Our commissioner is on his way to sign-off for L & A testing."
As reported in an article the Reckoning published Saturday, a document obtained last Friday by the Reckoning from the Secretary of State shows that the L&A testing was filed in the Grant County Courthouse at 4:17 p.m. on Feb. 20.
Why did the Secretary of State's office wait until Feb. 20 to ask county clerks to send L&A testing results when Early Voting began Feb. 17? Shouldn't all issues have been addressed before a voter ever voted?
Early voting
On Monday, Feb. 23, at 10:02 a.m. Berry received an email from Stevens about the state not receiving votes from Saturday, Feb. 21 from Grant County.
Three minutes later, Berry wrote: "I am going upload it again."
Berry then sent another email at 10:13 a.m. on Feb. 23. "I redid it again. I think it is updated."
It is unclear from emails if this solved the issue.
Another issue appeared Friday, Feb. 27 when Berry emailed Stevens about having to try multiple times "to upload the voters from 2/24/2026."
At 2:29 p.m., Berry sent an attachment (the Reckoning did not receive the attachment) that says ES&S-02252026152808.
At 2:31 p.m. Berry sent an email to Stevens regarding another issue and also asked: "Ok, we will look over this report. Did our Talley very go through on the States end? Gina called and is helping us out." (Note: The word "very" is copied directly from Berry's email.)
Post-Election
The Reckoning pointed out Election Night (March 3) on its Facebook page the curious 2024 date in the footer. From that point on, the Reckoning began asking local and state officials questions.
On March 5, 2025, at 2:56 p.m., Berry sent two L&A reports to Spencer Ammons at the Secretary of State's office. According to Transparency.Gov, Ammons is an "Elections Sr. Supervisor."
Grant County Wasting No Time Certifying
According to the Grant County Election Commissioner's Facebook page in a post dated March 5, the Commission issued an agenda for certification on March 10, 2020, at 8 a.m.
According to the Secretary of State's website, commissioners can certify as late as March 13.
"Deadline for the CBEC to meet to canvass the returns and certify the Preferential Primary Election and Nonpartisan Election results. No earlier than forty-eight (48) hours and no later than the tenth (10th) calendar day after the Preferential Primary Election and Nonpartisan Election. If no time is specified for the meeting of the CBEC, the meeting shall be at 5:00pm. Ark. Code § 7-7-309; Ark. Code § 7-7-203(e)(2)"
However, it appears no one is wasting any time certifying Grant County election results, which leave people with more questions than answers from a curious 2024 date on Election Night handouts to early voting issues.
