... sound like a cruel joke.

They'll be presented to all the whiny sore losers when their candidate is effected by election fraud.

They're not very deep thinkers.

in Utah last night?

Speaking of hypocrisy ...

Blind allegiance is just that - BLIND.

Even with early voting in Texas, we had people waiting 2 hours to vote at both of the polling locations where my two daughters were serving as election judges. Most of the problems described are due to the fact that Arizona is under GOP control and the GOP wants to make it hard to vote.

This week, Marc Elias, Hillary Clinton's top election law lawyer, argued a case on racial gerrymandering of Virginia's congressional district before the SCOTUS. Marc is also suing Ohio and North Carolina on various voter suppression tricks being used. In Texas we are suing on voter id, redistricting and compliance with the Motor Voter law. There has been calls for the Clinton volunteer lawyer group on voter protection and I understand that more lawsuits may be filed.

Stopping voter suppression is not easy. People are working on it. I worked on a program in 2014 that helped a couple of hundred voters get voter ids but that program had no funding and a couple of hundred voters is a drop in the ocean considering that at least 600,000 registered voters and 1.3 million eligible voters lack the required ids.

If you want to help, please volunteer. While I like posting on DU, I find it more rewarding to work in the real world on these issues.

Would you send me info on the lawsuit filed here in Texas? I'd appreciate it.

Thanks for your thoughful post.

The latest is the Texas Civil Rights Association lawsuit on mother voter. Mimi used to head up voter protection at Battleground Texas has been working on this for a while http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/texas-sued-over-voter-registration-policies-n538176 Chad Dunn is one of the lead attorneys in both the Voter id and redistricting lawsuits. Here is a link to all of the briefs and filings in the voter id case http://moritzlaw.osu.edu/electionlaw/litigation/VeaseyV.Perry.php Here is a link to the filings and briefs in the Texas redistricting case http://moritzlaw.osu.edu/electionlaw/litigation/PerezVTexas.php

If you want to volunteer for voter protection, I can post a link or PM you with a link to the Victory Counsel program

Thank you - I am definitely interested in volunteering.

it was a closed primary that is because they were first time Independent voters. This was not a new rule. Sorry the
campaigns were lax in letting their voters in on the rules. Nobody got cheated.

The only issue would be the the cutting down of 200 polling sites to 60. That was boneheaded.

They confirmed that their party preference had been changed from the SoS website. When they arrived to the polls, some people discovered that their status had not been changed, or changed to Republican rather than Democrat.

Yes, by all means, continue to blame the voters. GOTV! can't wait for this to happen again in November. Reap the whirlwind.

It's a calculated effort to reduce turnout. Republicans pull this crap when they are in charge and where it mostly affects Democrats.

But that said, I don't believe they should ever close the polls or declare a winner until everyone in line has voted; I don't care who they vote for or how long that takes.

Seems to be the go to option when trying to cover something up now. Stifle discussion, it just might go away.

Elections in Arizona are governed by the county recorder, who determines how many polling places are actually open on Election Day.
The recorder in Pima County, which houses Tucson, had twice as many polling locations open than in Maricopa County. And Pima County is roughly one-third the size of Maricopa County.
Maricopa County Recorder Helen Purcell was responsible for the reduction in polling places in 2016, justifying it by saying turnout was traditionally low, so the solution was to reduce the number of places where citizens could cast their vote.
http://usuncut.com/politics/5-examples-voter-suppression-arizona-primary/

And surprise: Helen Purcell is a Republican.
http://recorder.maricopa.gov/recorder/

There are voter suppression, sure. The DNC has nothing to do with it though.
The only way to fix it is to elect a Democrat in November.

Unless you just want to throw tantrums at whoever nearest to you whenever something doesn't go your way.

Voter suppression isn't good for anyone, democrat or republican. That makes us no better than a banana republic. Hillary's silence says a lot..........I'm so disappointed in the democratic party ......they should have been all over this Arizona thing...........I guess as long as Hillary's voters can vote...

Many have said there were major issues yesterday. We just find the hyperbole that Sanders supporters were intentionally disenfranchised by the HRC campaign ludicrous.

It's another example of how SOME, i.e., a certain segment of DU, translation what they interpret from the inference of what someone else said.

Example: "Sanders' economic primacy misses with the mainstream of the Black electorate, which places a higher priority on social equality."

"No, it doesn't. Bernie says, and I agree, economic equality will lead to social equality."

"Well, That may be Bernie's belief; but, that has not been my experience. My experience has it that putting more money in my pocket, does nothing to bring me closer to social equality."

"Why are you calling Bernie a racist?"

really are.

That somehow, Hillary Clinton conspired with the republican legislature and governor...two entities that absolutely hate her to screw Sanders.

Arizona should be an issue because McCain is weak in the fall. Not because Bernie supporters think they got screwed.