I wonder how the SCOTUS would view a state only allowing gun permits to be issued by standing in 5 hour lines, in a location that is hours away from most rural citizens, on a very cold day between the hours of 8 am - 3 pm? Owning a gun is a constitutional right just like voting, so this would reasonable right? Maybe a very blue state should try a reform like this, just to see how the SCOTUS would rule?
Again Proof Positive, in case you needed any, that the GOP hates the most fundamental aspect of democracy–voting.
Wow, this is truly scandalous. One thing that always baffles me about this stuff is: if one measly act of double-voting is so intolerable, why can’t the persons responsible for a transparent attempt to commit voter suppression be prosecuted? It’s literally thousands of time more serious than double-voting. Why can’t Hillary or Bernie push for a law which criminalizes electoral shenanigans that, whether intentionally or grossly negligently, have the effect of violating the civil rights of voters?
Roberts decision to gut the law was based on bias, not facts. If he denied reality in writing the 2013 decision, surely it takes bigotry to continue to deny it. This is only Arizona, the other states involved have also changed their laws in order to deny citizens access to the ballot.
Ha, ha. To pretend that Helen Purcell, the nation’s premier agent for on-the-ground voter disenfranchisement, doesn’t know what’s going on is a bit rich. Every cycle, new approaches are pioneered, some meeting with less success and some with more. The behavior even raises eyebrows in Tucson.
Actually, the GOP has nothing against voting: it just depends on who votes! 
And don’t forget to move the gun store every few months without publicizing it.
One polling place for every 8500 whites and one for every 108,000 blacks and Hispanics. Right, I am sure the Republican crackers running the Arizona election process didn’t think about race at all. I call bullshit.
gop is evil!
Is the mailing postage paid? If not, doesn’t that constitute a poll tax?
With “voting centers” it might even have been worse than that, depending on commuting patterns and how the centers were laid out. If you’re supposed to be able to vote on a work break or a lunch hour, that is only possible if there are even more centers easily accessible to where people work.
But 12 days to tell people about a change like this? Really? And then they’re going to switch back to precincts for the general election? (Because, y’know, they can’t distribute ballots for each precinct to multiple voting centers.)
Who are the judges who will hear this?
That’s interesting. I’m going to say no only because the argument would be that mailing it would be a choice when you can go to a polling station and do it for free. I think it would likely only count if the government provided you no other option but to buy a stamp to mail your ballot.
Well, all animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.
“Screwed up” implies it was UNINTENTIONAL.
Nothing could be further from the truth,
Arizona is also going to stack every ridiculous state, county, city, town, school board, judge and ballot initiative onto the same election day. That makes for a long line too.
John Roberts is as crazed a right winger as any of them if you look at his Citizens United (corporations are people) decision and gutting the voting rights act.
There is no sense in these rulings, only the typical hardcore conservative partisan agenda.
This is judicial activism at its highest!
This is also what happens when a wing nut headfakes and pretends to be moderate to get the powerful government job. As soon as they have it, their inner wing nut comes right to the surface and then it’s hold on to your precious rights time.
It’s really diabolical how a determined group can find a myriad of different ways to slyly disenfranchise as many people unlikely to vote “their way” as possible. The gutting of The Voting Rights Act by the Roberts court shows us that every vote matters, and no candidates are not “all alike” at all.
Arizona, Arizona. What are we going to do with you?