http://m.dailykos.com/story/2016/3/2...itor-Situation“Something Is Going Seriously Wrong at Arizona Polls Today”:
Arizona’s primaries aren’t even done yet, and there’s already legal action being taken as a result of incompetence or possibly even intentional sabotage. Leaders from the Arizona branch of the Democratic Party have confirmed that its lawyers are officially making an inquiry after multiple Democratic voters showed up to the polls only to find that they were listed as independents, Republicans, or had no party affiliation at all.
Many voters wound up having to wait in line under the hot Arizona sun only to find that they were ineligible to vote for the candidates of their choice.
To add insult to injury, the polling locations have been so poorly planned that many voters had to wait in line up to four hours before finding out that their information had been improperly filed.
No word yet on any pattern of demographic affected. Enrique Gutierrez, communications director for the Arizona Democratic Party, told US Uncut.
“We’ve been getting calls all day from lifelong Democrats who have been registered as independents...One woman even said she’d been registered as a Libertarian.”
clintons gonna clinton tbh
How is that a Clinton problem?
Arizona is a closed primary. You cant vote if you're not a registered Democrat. No indepents can vote in that.
This happens to people who dont pay attention to where they live. They had up to a month to change party to be able to vote.
This also effected the republicans side. I have a pal from there who is a republican. He had to wait an obcene long time to be able to vote.
Elections officials in Maricopa County are now fielding complaints from voters who believe they were registered with a political party but were told they were not.
Democratic Party political director Barb Lubin says they've taken calls from hundreds of voters whose names were not on the rolls when they went to vote. She said there may be a problem with the state's online registration process.
Elections Department spokeswoman Elizabeth Bartholomew says Democrats passed on concerns and acknowledged the problem may be with voters who update their information on the Service Arizona website. She says voters who go in to update their addresses apparently didn't complete the form and choose a political party, defaulting to independent.
How is that a Clinton problem?
Arizona is a closed primary. You cant vote if you're not a registered Democrat. No indepents can vote in that.
This happens to people who dont pay attention to where they live. They had up to a month to change party to be able to vote.
This also effected the republicans side. I have a pal from there who is a republican. He had to wait an obcene long time to be able to vote.Leaders from the Arizona branch of the Democratic Party have confirmed that its lawyers are officially making an inquiry after multiple Democratic voters showed up to the polls only to find that they were listed as independents, Republicans, or had no party affiliation at all.
“We’ve been getting calls all day from lifelong Democrats who have been registered as independents...One woman even said she’d been registered as a Libertarian.”
Read my second post. Specially the bolded part.
net positive for bernie today
...while krazy klinton wins one of the most (if not the most) racist states in the US
4 delegates more. That will show her.
rubio
Arizona is the racist capital
Will be closer to 20. Delegates in UT are still being allocated and he keeps cutting the lead in AZ. He's actually gotten 60% of the day-of votes in AZ. Shillary is hitting the nursing homes hard and getting all the Alzheimer's patients to cast early votes for her imho.
What other candidate would inspire voters to stand in line for 5 hours, until 1 am their time?
as of now Sanders is +7 today and they're still not done tallying utah/az. still 9 more utah delegates and 5 from AZ to distribute
America's broke, can't afford to provide enough voting places in primaries and elections. Greatest Democracy In the Universe, and so ing proud of it. Just another MYTH that Americans believe.
5 Outrageous Examples of Voter Suppression in the Arizona Primary
1. Lines were so long people literally spent an entire work day waiting in line
In 2012, Maricopa County, which is the most populous county in Arizona, had over 200 polling locations open on primary day. In 2016, that number was reduced to just 60. This amounted to over 20,000 voters for every polling location, meaning voters had to stand in line for hours to cast their ballots.
As it turns out, elections in Arizona are governed by the county recorder, who determines how many polling places are actually open on Election Day. The recorder in Pima County, which houses Tucson, had twice as many polling locations open than in Maricopa County. And Pima County is roughly one-third the size of Maricopa County.
Maricopa County Recorder Helen Purcell was responsible for the reduction in polling places in 2016, justifying it by saying turnout was traditionally low, so the solution was to reduce the number of places where citizens could cast their vote.
Local NBC reporter Joe Dana put this in perspective with one tweet:
Another local reporter, Jason Volentine, managed to capture video of one of the long lines in Maricopa County in a live Facebook broadcast, while interviewing several voters who had no choice but to wait hours in the hot sun to participate in the primary:
Another man testified that he had waited for over four hours to cast his ballot in Maricopa County, where the line stretched for over half a mile.
In the wake of so many stories and social media outbursts about long lines, Helen Purcell became the target of outrage. However, when confronted by a local reporter, Purcell instead blamed the voters for getting in line. Literally.
Purcell may have been responsible for a new Maricopa County record: The last ballot in her county wasn’t cast until after midnight local time, or 3 AM Eastern time.
The elections are such a mess in Arizona that the Secretary of State and the Office of the Maricopa County Recorder are admitting they can’t handle running an election. Both Purcell and Secretary of State Michele Reagan support legislation that will turn the administration of elections over to state party organizations.
2. Clear voter suppression in Latino neighborhoods
In Helen Purcell’s mad dash to consolidate polling locations across Maricopa County, she somehow forgot to have polling places open in densely-populated Latino communities on the day of the primary. This is a glaring oversight, given that 40.8 percent of Phoenix’s 1.5 million residents are Latino. State Senator Martin Quezada told AZCentral.com that the lack of available polling locations for the Latino community was problematic.
“In my district, there is only one polling place,’’ Sen. Quezada said. “In my neighboring district, LD 30, there are no polling places.”
“It is no coincidence many poor and predominantly Latino areas didn’t get a polling place,” AZCentral.com editorial columnist Elvia Diaz wrote Tuesday night.
3. Democrats mistakenly registered as independents, given provisional ballots
As Arizona voters were still waiting to cast their ballots, US Uncut reported on allegations that voters who had previously registered as Democrat were instead listed in the voter database as “independent” or “no party listed.” In Arizona’s closed primary system, independent voters are denied their voice by having to vote with a provisional ballot. But what voters classified as “independent” who cast provisional ballots don’t realize is that their ballots are never counted.
42-year-old Kelly Thornton, who worked as an Election Day Technician in Yavapai County voting center 5 on Tuesday, told US Uncut that roughly two thirds of voters who came to her precinct had been mistakenly identified as independent by the election software. All of those voters were subsequently forced to cast a provisional ballot.
“One man was a lifelong Democrat who was listed as independent. He left the precinct, went to his house, and came back with a card showing that he was registered as a Democrat,” Thornton told US Uncut. “But when I called the election center (administered by the county recorder’s office), they told me to just give him a provisional ballot anyway.”
“People were so cavalier about it, it was like no big deal,” Thornton added.
Thornton was also given a script by the Yavapai County recorder’s office to read to voters, verbatim, when they asked if their provisional ballots would be counted. The script outright tells the voter that if they cast a provisional ballot when the system lists them as independent, their vote will not be counted:
“I called the Arizona Democratic Party office around 1 PM, and I said, ‘Something is not right here.’ They said someone would call me back, and nobody called me back,” Thornton said. “This is the exact same thing that voters have been experiencing in Pima and Maricopa County all day.”
Given that one of Bernie Sanders’ largest base of voter support comes from independents, it isn’t hard to see why the Vermont senator lost Arizona handily — his core supporters’ ballots weren’t counted.
4. Su ious evacuations of county buildings at peak voting times
The office of the Pima County recorder, which oversees elections in the Tucson area, received warning of a su ious package in an adjacent garage, and workers answering calls from polling places had to put everything on hold for nearly an hour. By the time workers returned to the phones, they had to bring in additional staff to help with the call load.
According to Tucson News Now, that wasn’t the only location that received a bomb threat on primary day:
Four locations in Tucson received bomb threats on Tuesday, so the building was evacuated as a precaution. At the time of the evacuation, the Pima County Recorder’s Office had been staffing a voter help line to answer questions about voter eligibility, polling locations and other voting-related issues.
5. Calling Arizona for Hillary Clinton while people were still in line
At roughly 8:30 PM local time, a little over an hour after polls closed, with less than one percent of precincts reporting, the Associated Press declared Hillary Clinton the winner of the Arizona primary. In Democratic primaries and caucuses, delegates are awarded proportionally, meaning that even if a candidate “wins” a state, their opponent still gets a share of delegates. If the win is razor-thin, delegates are split. Thus, a premature declaration of victory for one candidate can very likely discourage thousands of people still waiting in line from voting.
Many on social media are crying foul over the incompetent primary process. A Whitehouse.gov pe ion has been launched calling on the Obama administration to investigate the claims of voter suppression during the Arizona primary. The White House is obligated to all pe ions that garner over 100,000 signatures.
http://usuncut.com/politics/5-exampl...izona-primary/
AZ, just another red or slave state that sucks, overwhelmingly just because it's red or slave. Repugs up everything they touch. It's their anti-govt strategy paid for by VRWC.
Last edited by boutons_deux; 03-23-2016 at 04:33 AM.
You're right. It ended up almost being a net gain of almost 20 delegates.
Problem is, Bernie is running out of caucus and open primaries now.
who's the down syndrome looking hoe in ur avatar?
Pretty good day for Bern, hope he can keep chipping away at that gap.
Trump's lucky Arizona was wta, Cruz's bible thumping and Romney's endorsement was a huge success there.
Why do you want to know the name of a supposed woman with down syndrome? Is that your thing?
i didn't say she's a downsie. there's a reason i said "looking"
i'm assuming she's a public figure, just askin. its ok if you dont want to share
Just an ex model from Belgium as it turns out. Ingrid Vandebosch
There are a couple of these going on tonight.
Not looking great for Drumpf.
Sanders also is shown with the lead in the exit polls.
Fox News projected Bernie winning Sanders. CNN hasn't done it yet.
Fox News just project Cruz winning Wisconsin.
If money is free speech, then why isn't bribery for endorsements and votes legal???
Cruz is absolutely crushing Trump. If he wins all the delegates then its close to a lock for a contested convention.
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