Delays in Opening Polling Locations Disrupts Arizona Primary

[saidsimplesimon]

Some polls not open until lunchtime, many forced to cast provisional votes or no vote at all, this is what we may face again in November. I vote by mail.

BY ASTRID GALVAN, Associated Press

PHOENIX (AP) — Voters faced more problems at Phoenix-area polling places during Arizona's primary election, with several locations opening hours behind schedule Tuesday because voting machines had not been set up on time.

It comes after voters waited in long lines for hours during the 2016 presidential primary because of drastically reduced voting centers, which have since been restored.
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Phoenix voter Brent Kleinman said he went to his local polling place twice — at 7 a.m. and at 10:30 a.m. — but was turned away both times. He ended up at a library having to cast a provisional ballot, which are given out when a person's eligibility to vote is unknown.

https://www.usnews.com/news/us/articles/2018-08-28/some-arizona-polling-places-down-after-vendor-issue

[sinkingfeeling]

1. Wouldn't it be nice to live in a country where our ability to vote wasn't

dependent on some for-profit contractor? Think about how energizing it would be to have 99% of the population taking the time to run the polling places with paper ballots and hand counting. How wonderful it would be to take a weekend to make democracy work.

[ChazInAz]

2. Again

They pulled this same monkey business in 2016: shuffling poll locations, eliminating many of them, closing while there were still people waiting to vote. Blatant stuff.

[saidsimplesimon]

3. sorry for the delay in a response

funerals, grieving and such.

The Gov. did not speak at McCain's funeral. He was too busy suppressing our votes. The staff at the Gov's office gave me a hard time when I demanded they fly the flag at half mast until McCain's interment. Then claimed it was their idea to do so all along. Only in AZ.....