Voting has started, long lines are happening again. Are past problems repeating?

[Coyotl]

[center]We made a film after 2004 covering many voting problems.
A full-length documentary wasn't enough to cover everything!

vimeo.com/2019192

One case impossible to fully cover in the first film was irregularities in New Mexico.
Our follow-up film focused on one minority group, Native Americans in New Mexico.

I hope this provides some context as reports come in of problems this year.

[LonePirate]

1. Yes, because Repubs care more about winning than they do about making sure everyone can vote.

[Wounded Bear]

2. Because when more people vote, Repubs lose...

it's been true for many years. Since Repubs have failed (well they haven't really tried) to attract new voters from demographics they have not appealed to in the past. They even did an autopsy after the 2012 election that basically predicted this election, and said they would have to change their messaging and appeal to a wider demographic electorate to survive. They threw that in the memory hole and doubled down. Their only answer was to try to suppress the vote. One way they do that is to reduce the number of polling stations, especially in districts dominated by POC.

[Island Blue]

3. Yep. In my NC county,

we have very limited early voting hours, only one weekend day of voting (again, with very limited hours), and I'm pretty sure there are only a total of 6 voting booths available throughout the county that spans almost 100 miles north to south. These provisions were decided upon by our Republican controlled Board of Elections. Oh, and by the way,the county is roughly 95% white and has, in recent years, increasingly voted Republican. I shiver to think what it's like in other parts of the state if the BOE in this lily while county doesn't want its citizens to vote.

[Coyotl]

4. Dallas Cow-ploys Fact Check

http://www.snopes.com/texas-vote-switching/
Dallas Cow-ploys
FALSE!
Although rumors of "vote switching" in Texas are rampant, we found only one case in which a report was investigated, and it was found to be unsubstantiated.

Republican rumors turn out to be false! Surprise, surprise.

Voting Machine Issues Reported in NC News VIDEO.

RALEIGH, N.C. -- North Carolina's elections board says it has received a smattering of complaints about electronic voting machines getting things wrong, but nothing outside the norm for a presidential election year. ........." said Gannon. "That said, they are technology, they are machines and occasionally they do malfunction." ..

[Coyotl]

5. Trump's own evidence of vote-rigging doesn't add up

Trump's own evidence of vote-rigging doesn't add up

Donald Trump’s assertions that voter rolls are crowded with ineligible voters are getting a lot of notice this morning, but my colleagues Noah Bierman and Michael A. Memoli report that the evidence he cites is faulty.

Trump alleges that dead people, those in the country illegally and voters registered in more than one state populate the voter rolls, saying Monday that “your politicians don’t tell you about this when they tell you how legitimate all these elections are.”

Where he does cite evidence, Trump is pointing to old or questionable research, The Times reports:

In the case of voter registration deficiencies, Trump pointed to outdated statistics for a record-keeping problem the federal government went on to address with a blue-ribbon panel of election experts that studied and recommended solutions. Some of them, including online voter registrations and data-sharing across state lines, were implemented in several states.

And the Washington Post op-ed on the odds of non-citizens voting that Trump mentioned, written by a pair of researchers, was followed by another piece undermining the methodology of the study, in line with many election experts.

Researchers have found that voter fraud is extremely rare ..............