Here is why the BSER'S are all claiming fraud in Arizona...

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9. The long lines were ridiculous

but the result of Republican leadership trying to disenfranchise people. They did the same thing in Florida, 2008 was a smooth election with a lot of early voting to alleviate congestion.

But a lot of voting helps Democrats, so they closed polling places and reduced the early voting hours. The result was people waiting in line all day and night to vote. Fortunately, most people stayed in even after finding out that Obama had won, so he was able to eke out a win in Florida.

But this whole thing is intentional. High turnout hurts them, so they do everything they can to limit turnout.

This was no accident, it is Republican policy to make it as difficult as possible for people to vote. As far as independents showing up when they couldn't vote, that's on them, but it wouldn't have created a mess had the same number of polling places that had been in place in 2012 were here in 2016. Here is the key:

One reason for the long lines is the fact that the county went from 200 polling locations in 2012 to just 60 in 2016. As Republic reporter Caitlin McGlade noted Tuesday night, Maricopa County's 60 polling locations worked out to about one for every 20,833 eligible voters, compared with one polling station serving 2,500 voters in other Arizona counties.

Keep that in mind. In 2012, they had 200 locations, with only a Republican primary. They wanted to make sure their people could vote. In 2016, with both parties holding primaries, they decided to shrink the locations. There were 10 times the number of people at every location. So those 4 hour waits people were complaining about would have been 25 minutes. Problem solved.

I'm glad Bernie is causing a stink, because hopefully it pays off in the general election with more scrutiny on them.

But it should also be pointed out that this probably hurt Hillary more than Bernie. This is a county that she won by more than she won statewide. It certainly didn't substantially hurt Bernie to the point where it would have made a difference, which is why some of his supporters (not him, of course) claiming that the result is in doubt is absolutely insane. You don't get 80k votes out of this nonsense, you probably don't get any substantive difference in percentage and delegate allocation.

But this is a huge WARNING for the general election. In primaries, it's hard to target counties/precincts because Democratic friendly areas vote for both candidates. But in general elections, they intentionally generate congestion in Democratic areas. Arizona looks to be in play, and no doubt they'll try a repeat performance here.