Government
Arizona Faces Yet Another Voting Rights Lawsuit, This Time Over Long Lines
The Democratic Party is suing state election officials over the long lines that marked last month’s primaries, charging they created voter suppression.
Addressing the nation the night he was re-elected to the White House roughly four years ago, President Obama drew attention to the prohibitively long voting lines marring those 2012 elections and said, “We have to fix that.”
Arizona missed that memo. Despite the range of scandalous election day ordeals the state endured during the 2012 elections, officials there learned nothing and the state still managed to flub this year’s presidential primaries. This flubbery was perhaps worst in Maricopa County, where election administrators reduced the number of polling locations by two-thirds compared to those open in 2012.