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In reply to the discussion: Democratic Party and Clinton campaign to sue Arizona over voting rights [View all]Gothmog
(145,130 posts)30. Hillary Clinton, Democratic Party To Sue Arizona For 5-Hour Voting Lines
Here is more on this story http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2016/04/14/3769482/arizona-lawsuit-voting/
This Friday, a group of Maricopa County voters will sue the state of Arizona over the disastrous primary election in March that left them waiting up to five hours in the desert heat to cast a ballot. They will be supported in the case by Hillary Clintons campaign, the Democratic National Committee, the Arizona Democratic Party, the president of the Navajo Nation, and the campaign of Ann Kirkpatrick, who is challenging Sen. John McCain for his seat in Congress.
Arizonans were denied their constitutional right to vote because those who run the system werent prepared, and it can never happen again, Kirkpatrick said in an e-mailed statement. Todays action is about representing every Arizona voter who stood in line for far too long or was forced to go home without casting a ballot.
The case demands the U.S. District Court of Phoenix review why the county cut the number of available polling places from 200 to 60, leaving only one voting center for every 21,000 voters, and ensure there are adequate polls open for this Novembers general election, which will have even higher voter turnout. Even in the lower-turnout March primary, some polling places ran out of ballots.....
The new lawsuit from the Democratic Party aims to remedy the problem before November, when the key swing state could help determine the fate of both the White House and the Senate. Democrats are also suing in four other swing states Wisconsin, Ohio, Virginia and North Carolina over allegations of voter suppression against students, people of color, and the poor.
DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz argued Thursday that policies in these states are a deliberate attempt by Republican officials to maintain their power. They want nothing less than to disenfranchise voting groups who are inconvenient to them on Election Day, she said. Thats exactly what Arizonas officials did when they closed polling locations and rejected thousands of provisional ballots, and its exactly what theyll continue to do if left unchecked.
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Democratic Party and Clinton campaign to sue Arizona over voting rights [View all]
reACTIONary
Apr 2016
OP
They care about voting rights when they need it to benefit their corporate candidate.
Skwmom
Apr 2016
#4
But in the 2000 elections when Blacks were purged from the voter rolls the Clintons
Skwmom
Apr 2016
#20
Other Dems love vote-suppressing, non-inclusive caucuses because they benefited their candidate. n/t
pnwmom
Apr 2016
#43
As Hillary Clinton Pitches Voting Rights On The Trail, Her Counsel Looks To Fight For Them in Court
Gothmog
Apr 2016
#31
Bernie outspent Hillary by about $1.4 million in Wisconsin to get 10 extra delegates.
beastie boy
Apr 2016
#19
fair enough. But I am not holding my breath for Bernie to ever sue Arizona.
beastie boy
Apr 2016
#26
Yeah, they should have filed a lawsuit before they had any standing in court.
beastie boy
Apr 2016
#21
Really? The Clinton campaign has some of the best proposals on voting rights that I have seen
Gothmog
Apr 2016
#34
That's a good start, but unless the electronic machines are axed, it may be moot.
FighttheFuture
Apr 2016
#37
I have the fun of being my county party representative at the testing of the machines
Gothmog
Apr 2016
#39
These machines can be hacked, any of them. Howard Dean was shown an example some years
FighttheFuture
Apr 2016
#45
Hillary is trying to step on the people who've already launched a lawsuit. Back off hilly!
Bubzer
Apr 2016
#40
And yet it was Marc Elias who is the head of the Clinton legal team who filed lawsuit
Gothmog
Apr 2016
#48
Wrong. Marc is a johny-come-lately to the lawsuit. They are JOINING the existing suit.
Bubzer
Apr 2016
#51
Still wrong. The Dem party and DNC JOINED the suit. Your reading comprehension is failing you.
Bubzer
Apr 2016
#57
Just in case my last post wasn't enough for you, here's who actually started the lawsuit.
Bubzer
Apr 2016
#52
Your impression is irrelevant. It remains fact that it's the people's suit, not Marcs and not hillys
Bubzer
Apr 2016
#56
Marc Elias is the head of the Clinton Victory Counsel program filed this lawsuit
Gothmog
Apr 2016
#47