Arizona 'voter suppression' petition among fastest to reach 100,000 signatures

[Uncle Joe]

PHOENIX - The recent Arizona 'voter suppression' petition was among the fastest to reach 100,000 signatures to the White House.

If you're unfamiliar with the petition, it alleges voter suppression in the Arizona Presidential Preference Election, held last week. After the petition reached its signature goal of 100,000 online signatures, the White House is expected to issue a response.

According to this spreadsheet, the petition ranks among four of the most popular petitions on the website. The petition was started Tuesday and reached the goal Thursday morning.

READ: White House to respond to petition alleging voter suppression in Arizona

The petition asked the White House to investigate possible voter fraud and suppression of Democratic voters specifically:

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http://www.12news.com/news/politics/arizona-voter-suppression-petition-among-fastest-to-reach-100000-signatures/106017800

There is also a video on the link of local, not national news coverage.

[GeorgiaPeanuts]

1. K&R

[Lans]

2. It has went past 200,000

Funny thing that the only news channel on youtube following the hearings is FOX Phoenix, guess the others don't care about voter suppression.

[Uncle Joe]

5. 200,000!

[Kip Humphrey]

3. YippEEE! I already signed (#43,nnn) and my wife is about to.

THIS is what Democracy looks like!



edited to add

petition #1 (208,748): INVESTIGATE THE VOTER FRAUD AND VOTER SUPPRESSION IN ARIZONA 3/22/2016 DEMOCRATIC PARTY.
https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/investigate-voter-fraud-and-voter-suppression-arizona-3222016-democratic-party

petition #2 (48,266): Do a revote of the Arizona primary due to voter suppression.
https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/do-revote-arizona-primary-due-voter-suppression

petition #2 needs some DU love!

[Uncle Joe]

4. Bernie was winning same day voting in Arizona.

On a thread by Time for change

How Badly Did Voter Suppression in Maricopa County Hurt Bernie in Arizona?

I noted yesterday that in this Tuesday’s Arizona Democratic primary, Maricopa County, the largest county in Arizona, reduced the number of polling places open compared to 2012 from over 200 to 60, and that consequently, people spent entire work days waiting in line to vote, as voting lines stretched for over half a mile. Undoubtedly, many of them had to leave before voting, in order to avoid missing work, which I’m sure many of them could ill afford. The County recorder justified this blatant incident of voter suppression by claiming that “turnout is traditionally low” in Maricopa County.

But I did not make an effort in that post to estimate how much the vote was actually suppressed in Maricopa County and how badly that might have hurt Bernie’s chances in Arizona. The Maricopa County website statistics on Tuesday’s primary sheds some very interesting light on those questions.

That website shows that Clinton won the early voting part of the election in Maricopa County 118,832 to 71,019, over Sanders, a margin of 66.1% to 33.9%. The website also gives the total vote count, which also shows Clinton winning the total vote in Maricopa County, but by a little less. What it doesn’t do is specifically show us the statistics for Election Day voting. No problem. Those can be obtained by merely subtracting the early voting statistics from the total voting statistics.

The Election Day voting, which Bernie won by 19,883 to 12,802, shows us two very significant things. First, that Bernie won the voting on Election Day over Clinton by 60.8% to 39.2% in Maricopa County, quite a difference from the early voting margins. And second, it shows us that Election Day voting in Maricopa County accounted for only 14.7% of the total vote. I find that astounding! I have never heard of a presidential or any other election, where Election Day voting accounted for so low a percent of the total vote. This strongly suggests, in my opinion, that the effects of the voter suppression in Maricopa County were huge. Could it be that only 14.7% of voters who voted intended to vote on Election Day? There are three facts that strongly suggest otherwise. One is the 70% reduction in polling places, resulting in half mile lines that resulted in many people having to stand in line for several hours to vote. Another is the mis-categorization of Democratic voters as independent voters, who were therefore not allowed to vote. And the other is that, if one analyzes the data from the Arizona website, along with information on the overall Arizona data on early voting, one can calculate that Election Day voting in the Democratic primary in the rest of Arizona averaged 59.1% rather than 14.7%.

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http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1251&pid=1575727

[Uncle Joe]

6. "Arizona Election Fraud Hearing: Stories of Voter Suppression"

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Today, Monday, March 28, there was a special hearing to discuss problems Arizona voters encountered during last week’s primary election. The problems included a severe reduction in polling locations in Maricopa county, resulting in long lines to vote in last week's primary. Some people had to stand in line for as long as five hours. In addition, many voters discovered that although they had been previously registered as Democrat or Republican, their voter registration was suddenly inactive or they were listed as unaffiliated with any party. Since Arizona is a closed primary, this meant that many people were not able to vote at all. Finally, it appeared that polling stations were closed in areas that had higher poverty rates, causing much concern.

A special meeting was held to discuss these issues, allowing for public comment along with testimony from Helen Purcell, Maricopa County Recorder, and Secretary of State Michele Reagan. These are the personal testimonies of everyone who was able to attend the hearing and had a chance to speak. Many others waited to speak, but time ran out. This likely won't be the end of their stories. Click through the gallery to see each person's testimony, including calls for an extended election day on June 7. The spelling of each citizens' name was not available for review, so if you see a name that is incorrect, please send a message and let us know. This first photo shows how packed the meeting was. It required two overflow rooms. (Facebook/Chi Nieves)

http://heavy.com/news/2016/03/arizona-election-fraud-voter-suppression-hearing-public-testimony-stories-photos-party-affiliation/

[KoKo]

7. This election is accumulating a String of Protests by Voters tha is Exposing Election Fraud by Both

Parties.

It will be interesting to see how this all works out "down the road" to roll back what we in Repub Take Over States do to force Change. And to Pressure our Dem (supposed allies) to clean out the rot of the voting system and Finally Address it after our long hiatus with Obama that we hoped would make More Change than he was capable of doing.

Battle............ But, it's good for Democracy to try to "Clean House." That's "If We Can!