. >> reporter: he currently leads county recorder helen persem and wants to state election laws. those laws limit the time counties have to count early ballots which contributed to some of the ballot backups in maricopa county. >> a lot those statutes were institute the in the '80s when we didn't have the electronic capacity this we had. >> reporter: vontez spoke about adding better equipment and more staff. >> you gotta make sure they have the resources and the election. >> reporter: some he told his lead over purcell, he promises there might be some uncounted after the next election. but? >> there isn't gonna be 415,000 of them. >>> police need your help catching the man who robbed a cellphone store in south phoenix. the pictures are clear. this happened on centra southern avenues on tuesday. two men attacked the clerk at register. one had a gun. they grabbed the money and took off in a white dodge truck. >>> one teenager in the hospital, another in police custody after a dangerous game played out. they were both high on some sort of drugs and playing a knife-throwing game. sto