I can't stand and won't stand 3 hours to vote

[Ichingcarpenter]

In Arizona or any other fuckyouistan, I would go home without voting. Nevermind that 3 hours waiting in line takes really 5 hours out of your day no matter how you cut it.


I doubt Hillary could stand that long either but I think Bernie could.

I physically can't do it, though I try to keep fit. But a man's got to know his limitations and I know my limits
at my age


This is voter suppression, and the powers that be can't spin this and you know it and they know it

Nobody can defend this.

[blm]

1. These Republican Secs of State need to be hauled into court and put under oath to explain their

actions and the decisions that led to their actions EVERY STEP OF THE WAY.

[SoapBox]

2. I simply cannot get over...

How our RIGHT to vote, now has endless obstructions thrown in front of it.

WTF?

How corrupt things have become that this is allowed.

The RIGHT to vote should be protected and honored, all across America, with consistent procedures...not this hodge-podge of state by state crap.

We need that Political Revolution because...Fuck This Shit!

[nashville_brook]

7. i can't get over that the HRC folks here don't see a problem with this.

what the ever-loving hell.

[Yuugal]

8. They will cry in Nov.

When the same thing happens to them.......and not one second sooner.

[nashville_brook]

21. looking at the turnout numbers, the suppression would have benefited both establishment

Dems and Repubs. AZ R's should have surged along with the rest of the country. they didn't they decreased by 20,000.

D's decreased by 50,000.

with blanket voter suppression in economically, or demographically targeted areas, they would have achieved establishment-friendly ratios.

[baran]

25. State vs. Federal

I was wondering why our elections are run by the individual states and not by the federal govt.Wonder what the history is on that -- whether it's always been that way. Seems like if elections were run by the feds, it would at least ensure uniformity.

[tblue37]

26. States' rights. States are supposed to be sovereign entities in many ways.

Of course, states' rights are all too often used to deprive citizens of their rights.

[PatrynXX]

3. mom can barely stand for an hour

let alone more than that X_X but she works thru the pain. another reason Caucuses rock. you can actually SIT during one.

[dana_b]

4. I can't either

I hate vote by mail because the opportunities for cheating are even greater but I may have to do it.

[PatrynXX]

6. Ironically I do vote by mail in November

and I only learned about it via Republicans in the family.

[SoapBox]

9. I've done vote by mail for many years...

I've worried about my ballot however, I'm in California (Los Angeles County) so I'm slightly less worried about shenanigans.

I do wish I could vote online and verify my ballot even after entering it...that at least would eliminate the mail portion as well as someone else getting it scanned.

[dana_b]

11. that would be great

take a screen shot and save it. Hopefully one day we will get to that point.

[Viva_La_Revolution]

16. less can go wrong with your vote actually

You just drop it off in person instead of mailing it back. Then you just have to worry about the election officials themselves and the machine they feed it into for the count.

In person voting has lots more opportunities for your vote to get lost... In AZ thousands of voters never got to vote, voted provisionally which probably wont be counted, machines flip votes or otherwise break down. Poll workers are untrained or partisan.

[shanti]

23. drop offs

that's how i do my mail in ballot here in cali. my city hall has a box, so i leave it there. so much easier, and postage free too.

[LonePirate]

5. Everyone needs to use early voting whenever possible to avoid these lines.

[SoapBox]

10. Ditto that.

I wonder, does AZ have such a thing? And what about the remaining states?

Maybe there should be a push to get people to vote early, whenever possible.

[LonePirate]

13. AZ had almost a month of early voting. Well over 100K AZ Dems voted early this year.

[shanti]

24. my bro and mom are in arizona

bro voted early and mom walked in on tuesday (both for bernie, btw). she said it was busier than usual, but not overwhelming...probably because she goes super early in the morning with all the rest of the seniors!

[Ichingcarpenter]

12. The voting system is corrupt

as we have witnessed.

[LonePirate]

14. Repubs were in charge of the Phoenix area voting where all of yesterday's problems occurred.

[Ichingcarpenter]

15. I really don't give a damn who

It doesn't negate my premise nor my opinion.

[in_cog_ni_to]

18. Exactly. Election FRAUD and voter SUPPRESSION is election FRAUD and voter SUPPRESSION no matter

Which CORRUPT party does it.

It MUST BE CHALLENGED.

PEACE
LOVE
BERNIE

[Viva_La_Revolution]

17. early voting helps establishment candidates

This is why hillary's campaign pushes it so hard. Get those votes before the voters have a chance to get to know Bernie cause when they do they switch over.
Early voting is awesome tho! We just need to help him reach those voters much earlier than a month before voting.

[Lorien]

19. Exit polls show that Bernie won by a wide margin

These were taken in one of the most conservative areas of the state. No doubt he did better elsewhere:

"Democrats in both locations were trending much more strongly for Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont than former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton; 62 percent of respondents favored Sanders with just 37 percent voting for Clinton."
http://dcourier.com/news/2016/mar/22/courier-exit-polling-shows-cruz-leading-prescott-p/

[Jane Austin]

20. I had to stand for nearly two hours in Central Austin

to vote.

I would sit from time to time when a chair would materialize along the line, but I was very sore the next day.

I work out in the pool at the Y three times a week, but standing turned out to be surprisingly hard on me.

It was also hot and smelly. People had just gotten off work and hadn't had supper yet. There was even a crying baby.

I was ill with tooth problems the week of early voting, but my kids said they had to stand in line for over an hour even then.

And, yes, AP called the election before I had voted.

The whole thing was very discouraging.

[LiberalElite]

22. No one should have to

stand for 3 hours to vote in this country - but your post reminded me of this. A folding cane/seat - I have one.

https://www.google.com/search?q=foldng+cane+seat&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8#q=folding+cane+seat&tbm=shop

[CentralMass]

28. Great minds....

[CentralMass]

27. You need to get one of these.

http://www.amazon.com/Folding-cane-chair-Walking-stick/dp/B006JPYVRI

[SheilaT]

29. Personally I am able to stand for hours,

even at my age (67) but not everyone can.

I do have the good fortune to live in a state (NM) with excellent early voting. We had pretty good early voting in Kansas when I was there also. I haven't voted on election day itself since at least 2000.

What we need is uniform early voting, voting by mail, same day registration, a system that allows new ballots to be printed out if the supply runs low, and probably a few other things I'm not thinking of right now.

[abelenkpe]

30. People had to wait three hours?

How many left because they needed to get back to work? Or needed to pick their kids up? Or had appointments? On top of the physical limitations. This actually happened?