Bernie Sanders and the Democratic party (and hilly) will sue Arizona for voter suppression

[Bubzer]

Bernie Sanders and various segments of the Democratic Party will file a lawsuit on Friday over alleged voter suppression in Arizona, the Washington Post reports.

The lawsuit focuses on Maricopa County, which includes Phoenix, where some voters waited in congested lines for as long as five hours before being allowed to vote in the primaries there on March 22. Elections officials in the county cut polling locations by 85 percent from the 2008 presidential election in order to save money, resulting in overwhelmed polling locations on election night last month.

The lawsuit alleges that minority voters, who typically vote Democrat, were most affected by the lack of polling locations. "[Arizona's] alarmingly inadequate number of voting centers resulted in severe, inexcusable burdens on voters county-wide, as well as the ultimate disenfranchisement of untold numbers of voters who were unable or unwilling to wait in intolerably long lines," Democrats argue in the lawsuit.

Maricopa County elections chief Helen Purcell issued a mea culpa just after the Arizona elections, but has rebuffed calls for her resignation. Purcell said that she had pushed for fewer polling locations to save money, and had expected that many more voters would submit their ballots by mail than actually did. "We certainly made bad decisions," she said. "It was my fault."

https://news.vice.com/article/clinton-and-democratic-party-will-sue-arizona-over-alleged-voter-suppression

[malokvale77]

1. Don't you love how Hillary jumped on the bandwagon...

after they had time to hide what NGP VAN did.