We should never ever have the criminal act of reducing the number of voting

[Ninga]

machines on any election day, ever again.

The very second it was discovered in Arkansas that the number of voting machines had been reduced, the election should have been stopped.

There needs to be law, or attorneys or somebody doing something so that never ever happens again.

I am in Ohio.

And in 2004, the election was stolen because of the lack of voting machines.

Hand wringing and ain't it awful, are not the answer.

[Phoebe Loosinhouse]

1. Someone in one of the affected counties should file a complaint

with the voting rights division of the Justice Department.

[polichick]

5. NPR reported yesterday that at least one voter has filed a complaint. nt

[damntexdem]

2. Some reallocation needs to be allowed for.

But major reductions in numbers of machines, or especially in voting sites, should be illegal.

[kctim]

3. The very second?

So the election should have been stopped in March?

[sinkingfeeling]

4. It wasn't the number of voting machines in Garland County, Arkansas. It was the number of

polling places. It was a decision made in March and it was a run off election which may or may not occur. Less than 20% of eligible Democratic voters went to the polls last Tuesday. Should states be required to have the same number of polling places for a run off as they have for the general election?

[Coyote_Bandit]

6. Ummmm......

I spend enough time in Arkansas to claim residency there, was born and raised there, have family and extended family there, and can document connections in the state that extend back to the early 1800s.

Only 14 of the state's 75 counties have a population of over 50,000. The population of the entire state is less than 3 million. Eleven counties have a population of less than 10,000 people. An additional 27 counties have a population of less than 20,000 people. An additional 15 counties have a population of less than 30,000 people. Most of these smaller counties have extremely high poverty rates - rates that sometimes exceed those of the poorest Appalachian areas. How many polling places do you think these counties had?

I can't help but note that nobody is complaining about the difficulty some of these folks had voting in the limited number of polling places. In the meantime there were only about 12,000 voters who bothered to vote in the Dem primary in Garland County.

Garland County May Dem primary results here:
http://www.votenaturally.org/electionresults/index.php?...

It is a predominately rural state. Only a small minority of voters have polling places near their homes. The majority of voters travel to a polling place. No fucking way those Garland COunty voters were more disenfranchised than voters in the majority of the state.

BTW, you may also want to inform yourself as to just exactly how primary elections are conducted in Arkansas. Do you have a clue whether or not it is an open primary state? Or who exactly is permitted to vote in a primary run-off election? Those things just might be relevant to your complaint.