Arizona's largest county listed wrong date for the election on voter ID cards (but just in Spanish)

[ProSense]

Arizona's largest county listed wrong date for the election on voter ID cards (but just in Spanish)

By Zoë Schlanger

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Arizonans who went to their local municipal offices in Maricopa County to pick up their voter ID cards may have been instructed to go to the polls on the wrong date -- but only if they were looking for the information in Spanish.

The wrong date was printed on a document that contains the new voter ID card. The document lists the general election date as November 6 in English but reads "8 de Noviembre" in the Spanish translation.

A spokesperson told local station ABC 15 that they estimated fewer than 50 people got documents with the wrong date, based on the number of people who picked up their cards in-person in "previous years," though they did not say whether those were election years.

http://maddowblog.msnbc.com/_news/2012/10/17/14344718-arizonas-largest-county-listed-wrong-date-for-the-election-on-voter-id-cards-but-just-in-spanish

[Live and Learn]

1. Oh my. How could an "accident" like that occur? nt

[JHB]

11. Last year the 2nd Tuesday in November was the 8th...

...so on a merely technical level they could have re-used the file or form and did not update the date.

In most other cases I might be inclined to pass it off as a "stupid clerical error". However, 1) it's their job to check these for accuracy, and 2) given Republican vote suppression tactics, politically convenient "clerical errors" should never simply be given the benefit of the doubt.

[Live and Learn]

13. So Maricopa county is now saving on calendars by reusing last years?

But only for its bilingual translators?

[AlbertCat]

15. How could an "accident" like that occur?

Because the numeral 6 in Spanish is..... oh wait... it's 6!


Well, 8 is close!

[CaliforniaPeggy]

2. Oh really. How on earth could that have happened?

Yeah, right.

[Cal33]

3. Yes, there are a myriad ways of practicing vote fraud. Those elec. machines are among the

biggest and also nearly impossible to detect.

[midnight]

4. K&R This sounds like another attempt to suppress the vote.

[Angry Dragon]

5. Election fraud

[Bernardo de La Paz]

16. Real election fraud only flows from organized Republican efforts, even 'accidentally on purpose'.

[Tom Rinaldo]

6. Yes and evoting software randomly flips votes only to Republicans n//t

[JBoy]

7. Someone's ass needs firing/resigning over this.

[Raster]

8. Bastardos!

[Baitball Blogger]

9. Fuck. So it begins.

[2theleft]

10. Good to know

My sister is a republican in Maricopa County. I'll tell her to make sure she follows the directions in spanish...

[KamaAina]

12. Maricopa County: also the home of chain gangs and pink underwear for male inmates.

[RadiationTherapy]

14. I think you mean "most populated" county. Coconino is the largest.

Thanks for the info!

[meegbear]

17. Huh ....

[defacto7]

18. Expect more of the same....

They are desperate now.

I honestly am not worried about the next debate... I am concerned about election fraud, underhanded tactics, toilet stall level ads... more lies, last minute trumped up scandals... these are our enemies now. If they are desperate enough to trash the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, they are desperate enough to do the above mentioned.

[ecstatic]

19. This is going to backfire. Don't most citizens

know English? I could be wrong, but if I were a disengaged, yet registered voter from a Latino background, and I saw stunts like that occurring on a regular basis, I would vote out of anger, and it wouldn't be for the party who crafted the "papers please" laws while at the same time trying to suppress my vote! Republicans are extremely short sighted, but that works for me!

[Terra Alta]

20. why do I get the feeling Joe Arpaio had his slimy hands in this? nt

[laundry_queen]

22. As soon as I saw what county, that's what I thought. nt

[rasputinkhlyst]

21. They should be required to be open on the 8th as well with National Guard force if needed.

[DonRedwood]

23. fraud!!!!