As Of 5 Minutes Ago I Stopped Being A Democrat - Arizona

[ebayfool]

43. Shameful of the whoever the hell in AZ (from your link).

2012 - 400 polling places record breaking turnout

2008 - 200 polling places

2016 - 60 polling places with larger record breaking turnout

This is NOT how to make voting easier. Mail-in ballots notwithstanding, going from 400 polling places to 60 is disenfranchising voters.

edit to add: Or whoever did the reduction. Where was the state Dem people when this was done? Infuriating. I'm also reading that some areas that were predominantly Latino were most affected.


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http://www.azcentral.com/story/opinion/op-ed/elviadiaz/2016/03/22/maricopa-county-election-officials-writing-off-voters-you-bet/82145554/

For weeks, some Democrats have been sounding the alarm about not enough polling places in Maricopa County for Tuesday's presidential primary.

They said the fact that some predominantly Latino areas got one or none polling places essentially translates into voter suppression.

Before, it was easy to dismiss their claims as pure conspiracy theories. It was difficult to fathom that Maricopa County election officials would purposely design a plan to keep people, especially minorities, away from the polls.

"So we looked at an area, and factored into that how many early ballots we usually get in that area and how many people normally vote at the polls. We didn’t look at it as legislative districts. We looked at the overall picture of our voters.”

So, it is no coincidence many poor and predominantly Latino areas didn’t get a polling place. Purcell and her staff figured few of them vote anyway.

She just decided to discount them. Really.