It will zero in on Maricopa County, Arizona’s most populous county, where the 200-plus polling precincts had been replaced with about 60 vote centers, and residents reported waiting in lines as long as five hours.
Um, that’s a feature, not a bug.
If you can’t win the voters hearts and minds, cheat. It’s the Republican way.
But I thought that Arizona was rigged for Hillary by the DNC? Why would they sue?
On the other hand, other than whining, where’s the revolution candidate on this?
I’ll just point out the glaringly obvious: Nowhere in this does it say that the Sanders campaign is joining in on this lawsuit.
That’s somewhat interesting. You’d have thought he and his campaign would at a minimum have been very involved on something like this.
They have moved on to bitching about New York’s closed primary.
Not quite sure how this hurt Hillary. From what I’ve read, Bernie did much better on election day than he did with people who had voted earlier by mail. If anyone was hurt by suppressing the turnout, it was him.
It may be that the way the math works, it is more advantageous for Sanders for minorities to be discouraged.
Is there any headline that can’t be turned into an excuse to bash Bernie?
Good! Glad to see this is happening!
And I hope we don’t see the Sanders camp start whining about being cut ouf of this. Or something.
This is more about ensuring voter accessibility for the November elections – which is probably why the Sanders camp is “meh” about it.
My guess is that Hillary is looking ahead to the general election, where voter suppression in Maricopa County will definitely hurt the Democratic candidate [just as the Republicans intended].
Arizona GOP Secretary of State: “It’s not voter fraud if we make a law fucking you over. See, it’s within the law!”
I approve of this message, and sincerely hope the plaintiffs prevail in court. This being Arizona, I’m not too optimistic, but stranger things have happened.
Some people talk about how things need to change. Others actually dig in and do the work of creating change.
Bernie likely would have done better because his stock rose over the course of the campaign. And, the Republican’s efforts also meant no voting centers in Latino areas, which hurt Clinton (and also increased Sanders’ turnout). Bernie doing better on election day was helped by the Republican efforts most likely, and the argument about the Clinton Machine ™ fixing the vote was ludicrous all along (since the Republicans want him as the candidate, and they controlled the vote in AZ).
Good!
Something has to be done to these re-puke fools!
I’m glad it happened now and not on the general election night!
Four years ago, under Ken Bennet, they threw away 400K mail in ballots…why do you ask, because at that election, stupid Ken Bennet printed in big bold letters on the return ballot envelope, the voters name and party affiliation, that’s why.
So, out of the 400K mail in ballots that got tossed, how many do you think read Anglo name, Republican?
That would be NONE!
The DNC didn’t even tell Bernie they were doing this. There it is again! Trying to shut him out of all the fun! Crony politics!
AZ was a closed primary. Increased voter turnout or voter accessibility in closed primaries does not benefit Bern.
Especially, here in Arizona!