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March 23, 2016
Arizona Primary Election Fraud? Infuriated Voters Petition White House For Investigation
Patricia Ramirez

Was there fraud and voter suppression involved in Tuesday’s Arizona primary election? According to thousands of voters who waited for hours in line to vote in Maricopa County, the answer to that question is a resounding “yes.” Local media affiliate 12 News reports that during highly contested Arizona primary election, voters endured a huge decrease in polling locations in the county. That, coupled with record voter turnout, resulted in what Former Secretary of State Ken Bennett called a “perfect storm.”

Ultimately, there simply were not enough polling places to meet the needs of the high volume of Arizona primary election voters in Maricopa County. In 2012, the Arizona county had 200 polling locations to meet the voting needs of its constituents. On Western Tuesday, that number had shrunk by 70 percent to a mere 60 polling places for the entire county.

MORE SABOTAGE?! Something Is Going Seriously Wrong at #Arizona Polls Today https://t.co/WwuZKdolFn #ArizonaPrimary pic.twitter.com/SstsqhS69R

— Labor for Bernie (@LaborForBernie) March 23, 2016

In addition, there were far fewer voters in the 2012 primaries; just 300,000. Last Tuesday, a whopping 800,000 citizens showed up to cast their vote in the Arizona primary elections.

Who was responsible for the decrease in polling locations? According to reports, the duty of planning polling places ahead of elections falls firmly on the shoulders of Maricopa County, Arizona Recorder Helen Purcell. She told the media that in determining the number of polling places and their locations, she took into consideration both the number of voters on the early voting list as well as the one-third of the residents of the Arizona county who were registered as Independents and therefore couldn’t mark a ballot.

“I don’t think anybody warned us of anything. We just did our calculations. If those calculations turned out or have turned out to be incorrect… or maybe we should’ve thought differently.”

Arizona Elections Director Eric Spencer said Tuesday night that it wasn’t the time to point the finger and that the appropriate next step is to plan more accordingly for the next election.

“Tomorrow [Wednesday] begins the conversation about what we need to do. Some of that is planning and forecasting. Some of that may be legal changes.”

According to a 12 News report, many Arizona residents aren’t satisfied with the official response to the primary election fiasco Tuesday. Several of those angry Arizona voters have created online petitions in response to the issues they faced at the Arizona polling locations. The voter complaints are completely non-partisan, with voters from both parties claiming that they were given provisional ballots.

In the Arizona primary election, Heavy reports, provisional ballots aren’t counted unless the voters are registered with the Republican, Democratic, Independent, or Green parties. Many voters who had voted Democrat in the past also showed up to polling places to be told that they weren’t registered to vote in the primary, or to find that they’d been “reclassified” as Independent or Republican voters. In Arizona’s closed primary voting system, primary voters can only vote for their registered party. That is, if they want their vote counted.

It has also been widely reported that the Democratic primary was called for Hillary Clinton, while people were still waiting in line to cast their votes. The last voter didn’t get out of the Phoenix polling location until after 12 a.m., and some polling places reported ballots still being cast even later than that.

Every single American should be disgusted by what they saw in #ArizonaPrimary last night. #VoterSuppression #DNC pic.twitter.com/IcwBi43YfB

— Arabs For Bernie (@ArabsForBernie) March 23, 2016

One whitehouse.gov petition, created by R.C. of Las Vegas, asked the White House to officially investigate what the creator called “voter fraud and suppression of Democratic voters in Arizona.” The petition has already received over 35,000 signatures. If it manages to reach 100,000 signatures, it will get an official response from the White House.

According to reports and complaints from Arizona voters, most voters in Maricopa County were stuck in long lines and waited for three hours or more to vote in the Arizona primary election on Tuesday.

Another petition that is circulating online following the Arizona primary election calls for Maricopa County Recorders Helen Purcell and Karen Osborne to be impeached for their roles in the alleged primary election fraud on Western Tuesday in Arizona.

That petition hasn’t gotten quite as much traction as the call for the White House to officially investigate the alleged voter fraud and suppression that took place during the Arizona primaries. So far, it’s had less than 100 online signatures.

Helen Purcell spoke out on Wednesday at a meeting of the Board of Supervisors, taking “full responsibility” for the alleged voter fraud and suppression, long lines and hours-long waits that voters faced during Tuesday’s Arizona primary elections, going on to add that she’d “screwed up,” reports 12 News. However, despite taking personal responsibility for the delays that voters faced, and despite the fact that Republican Arizona Governor Doug Ducey called the long lines and wasted time “unacceptable,” Purcell says she won’t resign.

Ultimately, the results of the Arizona primaries were fairly decisive. Hillary Clinton took the Democratic win with almost 58 percent of the vote, taking 40 of the state’s proportionally allocated 75 Democratic delegates. On the Republican side, Donald Trump dominated with 47 percent of the vote, winning all 58 of Arizona’s Republican delegates.

At this early stage, it’s unclear what (if any) action the White House is going to take regarding the allegations of voter fraud during the Arizona primary election.

 

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Voters accuse Arizona of election fraud as Phoenix mayor requests federal investigation
Polling places were cut by 70%, leading #AZElectionFraud to trend on Twitter & a petition to get 100,000 signatures
Ben Norton

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Voters accuse Arizona of election fraud as Phoenix mayor requests federal investigation
People wait to vote in the presidential primary election outside a polling site in Glendale, Arizona on March 22, 2016, after 70 percent of polling locations were cut (Credit: Reuters/Nancy Wiechec)

The phrase #AZElectionFraud trended on Twitter on Thursday as thousands of users across social media accused Arizona of sabotaging the March 22 primary election.

Thousands of Arizonan voters were stuck in long lines for hours on Tuesday night after county officials decreased the number of polling locations in Maricopa County — the most populous area in the state, with more than half of the population — by more than two-thirds, from 200 four years ago to just 60.

Hillary Clinton won the contested Democratic primary in Arizona with roughly 58 percent of votes to Bernie Sanders’ 40 percent. Sen. Sanders won the other two primaries in Idaho and Utah the same night in enormous landslides, with approximately 80 percent of votes.

Donald Trump won the contested Republican primary in Arizona with 47 percent of votes.

A petition calling on the Obama administration to “investigate the voter fraud and voter suppression” received more than 100,000 signatures by Thursday afternoon.

In response to the widespread outrage, Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey called the conditions “unacceptable.”

Phoenix Mayor Greg Stanton took a step further, writing a letter to Attorney General Loretta Lynch requesting a federal investigation into the allegations of misconduct, local media outlets reported.

Maricopa County officials cut the number of polling locations in this primary by 70 and 85 percent, compared to the elections in 2012 and 2008, respectively, according to Stanton.

He pointed out in his letter that, in Phoenix, there was just one polling location for every 108,000 residents.

“Thousands of citizens waited in line for three, four, and even five hours to vote,” Stanton wrote. “Many more simply could not afford to wait that long, and went home.”

“This is unacceptable anywhere in the United States, and I am angry that County elections officials allowed it to happen in my city,” the Phoenix mayor added.

He also wrote in his letter that Maricopa County “distributed fewer polling locations to parts of the county with higher minority populations.”

“My request comes on the heels of consistent activity that has created a culture of voter disenfranchisement in this state,” Stanton continued, noting that Arizona has a history of rejecting large amounts of provisional ballots and mail-in ballots.

Mayor Stanton furthermore criticized state officials for, in early March, approving “a law that aims to suppress voter turnout by making it a felony (with a presumptive one-year prison term and $150,000 fine) for volunteers, or even a friend or a neighbor to turn in a person’s valid, sealed and signed early ballot.”

Many activists have blamed Helen Purcell, the Republican recorder for Maricopa County. Purcell admitted responsibility for drastically reducing the number of polling locations, but refuses to step down.

Arizona lawmakers will be holding a special hearing to look into the primary on March 28.

Bernie Sanders held a news conference on Wednesday and called the Arizona primary a “disgrace.”

“People should not have to wait five hours to vote. And what happened yesterday in Arizona is a disgrace,” the Vermont senator said. “I hope that every state in this country learns from that and learns how to put together a proper election, where people can come in and vote in a timely manner and then go back to work.”
Ben Norton is a politics staff writer at Salon. You can find him on Twitter at @BenjaminNorton.

 

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Phoenix mayor urges DOJ to probe Arizona primary after voters claim ‘election fraud’
Published time: 25 Mar, 2016 05:34
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Man waits to vote in the U.S. presidential primary election at a polling site in Glendale, Arizona March 22, 2016. © Nancy Wiechec
Man waits to vote in the U.S. presidential primary election at a polling site in Glendale, Arizona March 22, 2016. © Nancy Wiechec / Reuters
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Phoenix’s mayor is asking the Department of Justice to probe Arizona’s recent primary after voters complained that long lines cost them a chance to cast their ballots. A supporting White House petition collected over 100,000 signatures in just two days.

“Throughout the county, but especially in Phoenix, thousands of citizens waited in line for three, four, and even five hours to vote,” Mayor Greg Stanton wrote in a letter to Attorney General Loretta Lynch. “Many more simply could not afford to wait that long, and went home. This is unacceptable anywhere in the United States, and I am angry that County elections officials allowed it to happen in my city.”

Stanton blamed the voting chaos on a “disparate distribution of polling stations,” saying that some areas, especially those with higher minority populations, were lacking in voting sites.

According to the mayor, Maricopa County authorities cut the total number of polling places by 85 percent compared with the 2008 primary, and by 70 percent compared with the primary in 2012.

READ MORE: ‘National disgrace’: Barred voters, hours-long lines plague Arizona & Utah during ‘Western Tuesday’

“In Phoenix, a majority-minority city, County officials allocated one polling location for every 108,000 residents. The rations were far more favorable in predominantly Anglo communities: In Cave Creek/Carefree, there was one polling location for 8,500 residents; in Paradise Valley, one for every 13,000 residents; in Fountain Hills, one for 22,500 residents; and in Peoria, one for every 54,000 residents,” Stanton wrote.

Democratic presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders, who received almost 40 percent of the vote in Arizona, applauded the Phoenix mayor’s request after emailing his supporters earlier this week, saying, “what happened yesterday in Arizona should be considered a national disgrace.”

I'm glad to see @MayorStanton asking @TheJusticeDept to investigate the voting delays in Arizona. https://t.co/Ic5x3Sm7iB
— Bernie Sanders (@BernieSanders) March 24, 2016

Sanders wrote that he had also “got an email last night from a woman who waited five hours to vote in Arizona. Five hours.”

Voters have accused Arizona of election fraud and sabotaging the March 22 primary election. As thousands of complaints poured into social media, #AZElectionFraud began trending on Twitter on Thursday.

READ MORE: Primary preview: Presidential candidates battle for delegates in Arizona, Utah, and Idaho

Arizona Governor Doug Ducey tweeted that the delays were “unacceptable” and that the state’s “election officials must evaluate what went wrong” to make sure it doesn’t happen again.

“If people want to take the time to vote they should be able to, and their vote should be counted,” Ducey wrote.

What happened at polls yesterday was unacceptable. Read my full statement #AZVOTESpic.twitter.com/UqcRMCaQ70
— Doug Ducey (@dougducey) March 23, 2016

A White House petition urging the Obama administration to investigate the situation reached over 100,000 signatures, the minimum necessary to require a response, within two days of its March 22 launch.