AZ recorder refuses to take blame for 5 hour waits after cutting polling places from 200 to 60

Probably not since Florida’s Katherine Harris stepped in and helped hand the Presidency to the Bush family in 2000 — with an assist from the Supreme Court and Ralph Nader — has one person so blithely and apologetically messed with the voting rights of the public until the disaster in Arizona yesterday.

Meet Maricopa County Recorder Helen Purcel — who oversees the polls in the heart of Joe Arpaio country — and who went ¯_(ツ _/¯ when confronted by a Fox reporter over 5 hour waits in the Arizona sun to cast a vote in a primary.

For the 2012 primaries, Maricopa County accommodated 300,000 voters at 200 polling places. Yet, despite a heated primary with Bernie Sanders increasing his presence in the state and stubby-fingered buffoon Donald Trump turning the GOP primary into a WWE event — but with less class –Purcel reduced polling locations by 70 percent to 60.

The result, as Az Central noted, was the last vote was cast just after in midnight in Maricopa County which encompasses Phoenix.

http://www.rawstory.com/2016/03/watch-az-recorder-refuses-to-take-blame-for-5-hour-waits-after-cutting-polling-places-from-200-to-60/