AZ: Navajo Nation reports long lines, major voting issues in Apache County

[RandySF]

FORT DEFIANCE — Printer issues and shortages of provisional ballots on Navajo Nation have left some voters waiting in line for three hours and others leaving their polling sites, especially in Apache County.

Tim Hardy, a Navajo Marine veteran, emerged from voting at the Fort Defiance Chapter House, noting that he had waited three hours to cast his ballot. Aware that many others also were waiting, he said he decided to skip voting on the propositions and focused solely on voting for the presidential candidates.

"Right now it's chaos," Hardy told The Republic. "They are way behind, and it's getting worse. I just went straight to Trump and Harris and I voted for Harris. The line is getting longer and people are getting frustrated and they are leaving. The elderly have been standing there ... you have to get them chairs."

Donna Holyan and her mother, Ella Wauneka, also waited in line for three hours to vote. They mentioned that inside the voting location, there were only two voting booths, and the approximately 200 paper ballots available had already been used up.




https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/11/05/navajo-nation-long-lines-major-voting-issues-apache-county/76070808007/

[mahina]

1. Disgrace is the word for sure.

May it be solved and soon! Seems like a conspiracy to keep those folks from voting. Vile.

[Eliot Rosewater]

2. Yep. How could this not be foreseen

[Wednesdays]

3. Pizza to the Polls

Feed those people in line!

https://polls.pizza/

[questionseverything]

4. Only two voting machines so long lines to vote

Can’t check in because the electronic poll book doesn’t work

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Electronics are used for voter suppression!

With handwritten polling books and paper ballots, they couldn’t deny these folks the right to vote

[StarryNite]

6. We use paper ballots in AZ.

We have for years.

[questionseverything]

10. The article said, the 200 paper ballots had been used up early

Does the machine they are talking about print the ballot after you have made your selections?

That’s way different than handing out a paper ballot and sitting at a table filling it out, the difference being with a preprinted ballot no one is waiting for a machine

[StarryNite]

11. Our ballots are preprinted. We fill in the ovals with pens.

It makes no sense that they only had 200 printed for that location.

[questionseverything]

12. It doesn't make any sense, why only 200 and

If y’all vote on paper and there are no more ballots why are people still going into the 2 voting booths?

Are they trying to run everyone through the machine for people with disabilities? There was only one of those though so that still doesn’t make sense

Btw my original point about electronic poll books stands

[questionseverything]

13. The article talks about the printers not printing out the entire ballot

I would really like to understand this

[StarryNite]

14. We had two pages this time.

Apparently it didn't print them both out.

[questionseverything]

15. But you said they are pre printed

[StarryNite]

16. Yes, they are preprinted.

So how could they not have caught the error that the full ballot wasn't printed out?

[questionseverything]

17. The article says the printer at the precinct was screwing up

Said even after they worked on it, it would only print a few and then stop

[dem4decades]

5. How can that happen? Don't the Najaho's run their own polling places?

[StarryNite]

7. Navajo and Apache are counties in Arizona.

[Cha]

8. TY I Hope they get Recourse!⭐️💙🌊🌊🌊🇺🇸🌈🕯️

[Deminpenn]

9. AZ Gov and Security of State

are both Dems. They will get this fixed.