On today’s BradCast, guest host Nicole Sandler of Radio Or Not chats with Ari Berman, author of Give Us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America, who explains that many of the problems voters experienced Tuesday in Arizona are traced directly back to the Supreme Court’s gutting of the Voting Rights Act. He wrote about that at The Nation.
Of course, he didn’t absolve Maricopa County Recorder Helen Purcell for her decision to reduce the number of polling places from 211 to 60.
That action and the chaos that ensued prompted attorney Adrian Fontes to challenge her for that position, which happens to be up for election in November. Mr. Fontes tells us about his decision in his first interview as a candidate. Elections do have consequences.
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It sounds like the election official is not incompetent. This is a long plan to make voting difficult and they are doing a good job at making elections difficult. Bernie needs to call out election reform as well as his progressive agenda.
Who’s responsible for the long lines? Is it the voters who stood in long lines waiting for other voters to fill in provisional ballots that they were led to believe might be counted or the administrators who knew those ballots would surely not be counted but had them fill them out anyway to further impede others waiting in line hoping to vote?
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The voter requirements in the quote below may be of help in answering the above questions.
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“Every provisional ballot is checked for eligibility. If you are registered as independent, other, party not designated, or libertarian, you are not eligible for this election and therefore, by law, your vote cannot be counted. If you are registered as a Democrat, Green, or Republican, and your ballot is otherwise eligible, then your provisional ballot will be counted.”
Today’s NPR followup story on the Arizona debacle once again interviewed voting fraud fraudster von Spakovsky, who actually said that resources shouldn’t be used to make it easier to vote, they should be used to purge the voting rolls. Ugh.
http://usuncut.com/politics/5-e...rzona-primary/
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http://usuncut.com/politics/5-e...izona-primary/