[puckerman]

These stories started showing up this week. My sources were Sanders supporters. Apparently some people in Arizona had to wait five hours to vote.

Maybe I've just been lucky over the years, but I'm calling bullshit on a lot of these stories. If there truly were "voter suppression," EVERYBODY would be impacted. People of all stripes vote at all polling places. If people allegedly supporting Sanders had to wait "five hours" to vote, then why didn't the same thing happen to Trump voters, Clinton voters, Cruz voters, and Kasich voters?

And how do the polling places know how a person is going to vote anyway?

There are so many stupid myths and lies from everyone here. But it always seem like the most absurd ones come from socialists.

Just wondering, how long did you wait to vote? Did you have any trouble voting?

Up until this year, I had never waited more than ten minutes to vote. This year, I happened to go to one polling place. There was a long line because of some technical glitch. Fortunately, I had the option of going to another polling place. I walked into it and was processed immediately.

The stories about voter suppression are getting old, and they all come from the same sources. I don't believe them.

[The Beast1]

I think it's BS. My favorite reports are the ones where people are given ballots where either a democrat or republican they want to vote for is missing.


100% of these are dipshits who put "independent" on their vote registration and didn't realize their state was a closed primary.

[dicknixon72]

This is Florida, FWIW, where we don't know how to vote...

In the nearly fifteen years I've been eligible to vote, I've never spend more than 15 minutes voting. Every polling place is way below capacity, the volunteers are old, retired, genuinely nice, and helpful. The 'suppressive' ID requirements are a photo ID with signature...

• Florida driver’s license
• Florida identification card issued by the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles
• United States passport
• Debit or credit card
• Military identification
• Student identification
• Retirement center identification
• Neighborhood association identification
• Public assistance identification.
  

All these assholes complaining about Voter ID requirements most certainly have that last one...

And in my opinion, if you don't have of those things, you really aren't much of a citizen and probably shouldn't be allowed to vote since you clearly don't contribute much to society. Shit, if you have ever smoked, drank alcohol, or recevied food stamps, you HAVE ONE OF THOSE ITEMS.

And in the case you dont...
If you do not bring proper ID, you can still vote a provisional ballot. As long as you are eligible and voted in the proper precinct, your provisional ballot will count provided the signature on your provisional ballot matches the signature in your registration record.

So, the problem again? Never experienced it.

P.S. I agree with TheBeast1 - I wager most of these complaints stem from overeducated morons not understanding what their hip 'independent' party affiliation restricts them from doing in a closed primary state.

[Repo]

The claim is that many polling stations in low income areas were closed, so certain areas had much higher populations with fewer polling stations supporting them. If you know your candidates demographic this can impact certain candidates over others. I haven't done the research to validate this claim, but that is the complaint. Also Gerrymandering can play a role as well.

I wouldn't be so quick to discount Bernies supporters claims. Guarantee they will pull every dirty trick they can against Trump too. Hillarly has no morals.

[puckerman]

The claims would have a lot more credibility if they came from someone else. You also have the option of early voting here in Texas. It's very easy to vote here in Texas.

Arizona also has early voting. You can see it here:

http://www.azsos.gov/elections/elections...-events#ec

Here's some validation on the issue from AZ Central. This is a source that should actually know the area, and they allegedly don't have any ax to grind.

I will agree wholeheartedly that the ratio of 21,000 people to one polling place is totally unacceptable. This apparently was the story in Maricopa County.

Also, for Arizona, the primary for everything else is later. This primary was solely for "Presidential preference." So, people should need only about a minute or less to vote.

Here are the results in Maricopa County. You can see that a large majority of the people did early vote.

Red Team is here:

http://recorder.maricopa.gov/electionres...reen1.aspx

Blue Team is here:

http://recorder.maricopa.gov/electionres...reen2.aspx

The results are also a reminder that Maricopa County is largely a Red county.

Here are the 2012 results, with Romney winning roughly 54 to 44:

http://recorder.maricopa.gov/electionarc...Report.pdf

More and more, this song is all about the fact that socialists don't want to admit that socialism fails at the ballot box in America. When they lose an election, they claim it was stolen.

[RexImperator]

I think part of what is happening in some precincts is that states with primaries this late in the primary season have historically had lower turnout, because the race is usually all over by now. When all of a sudden you have an actual contest, more people show up to vote and the system wasn't ready for the larger numbers.

[puckerman]

There is something else I've realized from all this: If you believe in socialism, you will believe anything.