When Allowed Vote

Saturday, May 28, 2016

Being part of the Arizona voting constituency . . .

WHEN Arizona is allowed to vote . . .

Because who could have known opening a little more than 1/4 of the polling places for the Arizona primary would lead to ridiculously long lines and a voting cut off before a substantial portion of voters were allowed to vote?

The best quote from the subsequent public hearings . . .

"We stood in line long enough to order pizza . . .

TWICE before we went home."

Maricopa county recorder Helen Purcell, who unfortunately has the decisional capacity to determine polling locations, was interviewed:

Interviewer: Who is to blame?

Purcell: Well the voters for getting in line. I think we have seen the heights of the candidates coming here and we haven't seen that in the past. They stirred things up.

Interviewer: How could this be prevented?

Purcell: I have no idea.

Interviewer: Is this going to be a failure of your office?

Purcell: I don't think so. When you get people out to vote? Is that a failure?