A box of day old sinkers sez that this suit will “Mysteriously” be forgotten long before election day, even in the People’s Republic of Arizona.
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The GOP is in an existential fight is disparate because the demographic trend is against them. Survival, plain and simple, is their justification for blatant efforts to suppress minority and left-leaning votes. I
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Re-pukes can’t win without cheating.
Bagger message, candidates, ideology suck…suppress the challengers vote!
Easy peasy, it’s done here all the time!
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Nice exposition Tierney. My takeaway is that Dems are fighting this. I hope they’re doing it in every state where it occurs
If i hit the lottery I’ll pump a bunch of $$ into fighting vote suppression and Citizens.
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yes, the mail-in ballot includes a postage-paid return envelope that must be signed and dated by the voter.
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Maricopa County is about to make matter worse by switching back to the old precincts system.
They have to. As explained below this bullet point, the primary election in August includes a number of highly-local races such as school boards, party precinct committeepeople, and other special districts.
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But at least the evil Christians Conservatives are saved, they’ve got that going for themselves!
Here’s the smoking gun:
For instance, the complaint said, there was a polling place for every 8,500 residents in the largely white community of Cave Creek, but in Phoenix – which is majority-minority and about 40 percent Hispanic – an average of 108,000 residents would be sharing a single polling place.
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He was not, and never has been, a member of the Federalist society – though he was listed in their leadership directory as serving on their Steering Committee.
yeah let only certain gun stores to provide back ground checks and gun licenses and then move them at a moments notice depending on if ya have a wild hair up there ass wonder what gun nuts would think of that??/ sort of like the voting practies of the republicon party
I don’t think any of these changes were “mistakes.” This is simply a continuation of the Republican plot against our electoral system. Their philosophy appears to be if they can’t win the majority of votes, they will prevent votes by those who support the Democratic party. Nice little country you have there, be a shame if anything happened to it…
Except this is 'Merika: there is no constitutional right to vote.
I think the way to battle these voter suppression laws is to make it a Federal crime to prevent any qualified voter from casting a ballot. Turn away a citizen: go to jail.
So this means that when people go to a “voting center” and get their registration checked, the clerk who checks them in would have to give them the ballots they would get if they were in their home precinct. That’s really not such a difficult distribution problem, unless you want it to be. Sure, it requires some extra training, but the whole point of the “voting center” thing is supposedly to reduce the number of officials you need so you can have each official better qualified at lower cost.
But the crucial thing is that changing voting methods and locations with every election, even a few months apart, is pretty much guaranteed to reduce turnout. Especially if people have less than two weeks before the election to find out where their polling place is and what to do when they get there.
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They didn’t screw up. This was what they intended to happen. It was deliberate.
The only mystery is why they did it in the primaries rather than the general.
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Gun licenses to only be issued in person on the fifth Thursday of the month.
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This is a great lawsuit, which will go down in history as The Revenge of the Judges.
However this turns out, it is going to get very quickly to the 9th Circuit, whose size involves a unique-to-the-West lottery to do “limited en banc review.” Yay team, the 9th has the highest percentage of judges appointed by Democrats in the country, mostly from the coastal metropoles. So the odds are very strongly in favor of a pretty radical victory.
And the Supreme Court Can’t Do A Damned Thing About It. Kennedy is boiling mad at the obstructionist Senate over this, because by the time the USSC can, Arizona may have turned blue.
My DREAMer activist friends in Las Vegas are making #NVAzul. #SiSePuede. Idiot McTurtle-led Senate may actually get us to #AZAzul. And the new Supreme Court will affirm the 9th Circuit precedent, and impose it on Texas. #TXAzul.
While Kennedy gnashes his teeth.
Popcorn!
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God damn you, John Roberts. Do you still think there’s no racism these days??? Justice Dept. needs to lean hard on these bastards.
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that would require printers that are able to print those highly-specialized ballots on the spot. We were told at poll worker training that this is about five years off, the printer technology is not as reliable as it needs to be just yet.
I believe this, though it could also be a funding issue. Think about how wonky your home or office printer can get, then imagine that it has to work with nearly 100% reliability at high volume on one specific day.
No, I don’t see why that should be the case. Most voters simply go where they are told, if they see the mailer that lists their polling place. A significant number of voters just go where they went last time they voted, oblivious to the fact that polling places can change (and this is to some degree outside the control of the elections department; they are often guests in private facilities that can have scheduling conflicts or simply don’t wish to host polling places any longer).
Most voters, in fact, are completely oblivious to the mechanics of elections. This goes back to the question of the extent to which the state should be involved in holding elections for private political parties (a topic I could get into at great length, but won’t for the sake of this discussion). All voters know is that it looks like an official election - the signage everywhere, the voting machines everywhere, the poll workers - and so they expect it to be held fairly and competently like any other election. Presidential preference primary, special election, general election, primary election - it’s all the same to them. As it should be! When elections are made overly-complicated, it creates a lot of space for shenanigans. Voters should not be expected to each be an elections law expert, nor should they be expected to have different expectations for each election based upon exceedingly fine legalistic hairsplitting.
Part of the reason that these Voter ID laws are so objectionable is that they make our elections even more complex. This can only benefit those who wish to manipulate the rules and laws in order to tilt elections in their favor, since it is unrealistic to expect voters to each be an expert in election law and intimately familiar with it. It also creates opportunities to NOT inform voters of certain intricacies of the law. For instance, how many voters know that you can curbside vote if you are physically incapable of entering the polling place or standing in line for an extended time? Judging by the number of anecdotes from the March 22 presidential preference primary in Arizona, quite a few of these voters simply went home because they were not aware they had this option.
The problem here is that the elections department did little to no PR to get the word out that this election would be held differently than others (polling centers vs traditional polling places in your home precinct). Combined, of course, with the fact that they severely underestimated the turnout and were underfunded for this election by the Legislature.
Sorry, I figured that (as they do where I live) they actually printed the ballots beforehand and just handed them out, rather than printing them on the spot.