Bernie Sanders
Related: About this forumReport from Avondale Tolleson Arizona
Historically long lines. As of 10 AM over 400 votes cast (typically this runs about 120 or so). Mix of crowd, heavy under 30. Only Bernie Signs. Polling Marshall reported people waiting before polls opened to vote which is unusual. Huge Latino crowd, many who had not voted in some time.
Based on demographics of the crowd it did not look like a huge turnout for R's, but this is a heavy D area.
Knowing the way these polls go over the years, there are going to be very long lines tonight after 5 PM and I seriously doubt the polls will close on time. In large turnout years, they mark the last person in line and in some years it hasn't been until 8:30/9:00 PM before the last vote is cast. This is going to be one of those years.
We use paper ballots where you connect a line with a marker to indicate your vote. The ballot is then scanned into a machine and tallied electronically. It has been this way for over a decade and there is no real room for voter fraud with this type of scanned ballot. Plenty of effort to suppress the vote already via voter ID laws that were passed years ago, but every single voter in line came armed and prepared with ID. It does not have to be a driver's licence, it can be an electric bill, military id, library card, anything that has a home address and name on it.
Since AZ has closed primaries, you are looked up electronically and your registration is verified. If there IS a problem which I have witnessed in the past, you can vote provisional. I did not see anything like that today.
Both campaigns had people there monitoring vote tallies and making sure that all is well. It was while I was there.
If I had to guess based on just profiling:
Over 50: 30%
Under 35: 60%
Latino: 65%
Black: 10%
White: 15%
Other: 10%
Although this is tough to tell:
Republicans: 20%
Democrats: 80%
questionseverything
(9,646 posts)the best documented election theft in the country happened in az
http://www.sweetremedy.tv/fatallyflawed/media/RTA_Fraud_Flyer_3_7_12.pdf
jillan
(39,451 posts)A thread later. Effects Bernie voters
SandersDem
(592 posts)This place has a long history of that kind of crap going back to Rehnquist. Just reporting that at this polling location, while I was there I did not witness it. That is 1 for 111.
questionseverything
(9,646 posts)no one can see inside the programs, so citizens can not verify if the reported "outcomes" are correct or not
happens all over the country but the az rta question was documented in pima county as being stolen
hopefully bernie can overcome it
SandersDem
(592 posts)This would involve the registration lookup machines and not the actual voting scanners. It seems some who had changed their voter registration to D from R were not showing up as D's. While this could be the result of a number of factors, it is concerning and a you tube video was posted. A few folks had to take provisional ballots. Hoping this is not widespread.
Good news is the Bernie campaign is very well organized and texting voter locations out to the contacts they have.
questionseverything
(9,646 posts)thanks for the reports
thereismore
(13,326 posts)NJCher
(35,648 posts)These local reports are one reason I like DU!
Cher