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2016 Postmortem

think

(11,641 posts) Wed Mar 23, 2016, 02:09 PM Mar 2016

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Arizona primary: Maricopa County had one polling site for every 21,000 voters

Arizona primary: Maricopa County had one polling site for every 21,000 voters

Anne Ryman, Rob O'Dell and Ricardo Cano, The Republic | azcentral.com 10:44 a.m. MST March 23, 2016

Democratic Party officials say they heard reports of 'large numbers of complaints'; Phoenix polling place runs out of ballots.

Voters experienced long lines at the polls for Arizona's presidential primaries Tuesday because of fewer polling sites this year in Maricopa County.

Polling sites were overwhelmed for Tuesday's Presidential Preference Election after county officials reduced the number sites to save money.

Most counties surveyed by The Arizona Republic had enough polling places to average 2,500 or fewer eligible voters per polling site. Maricopa County had only one site per every 21,000 voters.

Chris Roads, Pima County’s registrar of voters, said the Pima County had 130 polling places open for this election. That’s more than double the 60 polling places that were open in Maricopa County, where huge lines plagued polls and some people had to wait hours to vote...

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http://www.azcentral.com/story/news/politics/elections/2016/03/22/live-arizona-primary-coverage-presidential-preference-election/82096726/

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Arizona primary: Maricopa County had one polling site for every 21,000 voters (Original Post) think Mar 2016 OP

Appalling! hrmjustin Mar 2016 #1

How is this Hillary's fault?? Gomez163 Mar 2016 #2

Where did you get that from my post? think Mar 2016 #4

I'm jumping the gun I guess. I've heard it from other Bernie people. Gomez163 Mar 2016 #5

And they did this so they could save money - an appropriate jwirr Mar 2016 #3

We will see the SAME shit in the GE -- Hell Hath No Fury Mar 2016 #6

We won't see anything near this outrageous in the general election BernieforPres2016 Mar 2016 #8

horrendous... kgnu_fan Mar 2016 #7

hrmjustin

(71,265 posts)

1. Appalling!

Reply to think (Original post)

Wed Mar 23, 2016, 02:10 PM

Mar 2016

Gomez163

(2,039 posts)

2. How is this Hillary's fault??

Reply to think (Original post)

Wed Mar 23, 2016, 02:12 PM

Mar 2016

think

(11,641 posts)

4. Where did you get that from my post?

Reply to Gomez163 (Reply #2)

Wed Mar 23, 2016, 02:13 PM

Mar 2016

Gomez163

(2,039 posts)

5. I'm jumping the gun I guess. I've heard it from other Bernie people.

Reply to think (Reply #4)

Wed Mar 23, 2016, 02:17 PM

Mar 2016

jwirr

(39,215 posts)

3. And they did this so they could save money - an appropriate

Reply to think (Original post)

Wed Mar 23, 2016, 02:13 PM

Mar 2016

punishment would be making them do the poll over with enough polling booths to take care of all the voters.

Hell Hath No Fury

(16,327 posts)

6. We will see the SAME shit in the GE --

Reply to think (Original post)

Wed Mar 23, 2016, 02:20 PM

Mar 2016

no matter who the Dem candidate is. We damn well better be prepared.

BernieforPres2016

(3,017 posts)

8. We won't see anything near this outrageous in the general election

Reply to Hell Hath No Fury (Reply #6)

Wed Mar 23, 2016, 02:27 PM

Mar 2016

The DNC will spring into action after the primaries are over.

kgnu_fan

(3,021 posts)

7. horrendous...

Reply to think (Original post)

Wed Mar 23, 2016, 02:24 PM

Mar 2016

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