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In reply to the discussion: Arizona Secretary of State Confirms Election Fraud [View all]aggiesal
(10,820 posts)The election officials did get their budget cut thanks to Gov Ducey's budget, but guess who was the first person to say this was inexcusable. But the election dept was re-budgeted close to 90%. During general elections there are 200+ polling locations.
This is probably very clever voter suppression. The polling in south Phoenix will not effect Cruz vs Trump or so, but if voters think 3-5 hr wait during a primary election is bad, they won't even show up during general elections for fear that they will wait even longer. In a sad sick way, I'm constantly impressed by the GOP clever voter suppression tactics.
Fountain Hills (home of Joe Arpiao) had around 6000 voters per polling location, but west and southwest valley had 4x-5x times voters per polling location. So some affluent neighborhoods had just as bad voters/polling ratio but the fact is that the higher income neighborhoods tend to use mail in voting far more than lesser / lower income areas. So the voters per polling might be just as bad but realistically a ton of those voters never stood in line, they mailed in the ballots. Therefore it only looks equal on paper but is no where near the same issue as far as wait times and lines out the door and down the street.
Here are the Voters to Polling ratios in some AZ counties:
"Total "Number of
Eligible Polling Average
Voters" Locations" Voters/Polls"
Maricopa 1,250,000 60 20,833.33
Pima 300,000 130 2,307.69
Cochise 45,952 18 2,552.89
Coconino 45,385 26 1,745.58
Yuma 44,287 7 6,326.71
Navajo 42,264 38 1,112.21
Apache 34,635 41 844.76
Gila 23,812 20 1,190.60
Santa Cruz 15,722 11 1,429.27
Graham 13,073 8 1,634.13
Pinal 98,194 82 1,197.49
Yavapai 82,003 29 2,827.69
La Paz 5,592 8 699.00
Greenlee 3,401 3 1133.67
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* Does anyone know how to make this table look readable? *
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