AZ - County Recorder discounted Latino voters
Maricopa County Recorder Helen Purcell, in charge of overseeing the election, told reporters she was sorry people were upset but didn’t offer solutions.
On Monday, she told La Voz Arizona reporter Laura Gómez that she took into account several factors to have fewer polling places, including allowing people to vote anywhere instead of a designated one.
“We were looking for locations that were larger so we could have more people in them,” Purcell said. “We decided that you could go anyplace which we’ve never done before.
"So we looked at an area, and factored into that how many early ballots we usually get in that area and how many people normally vote at the polls. We didn’t look at it as legislative districts. We looked at the overall picture of our voters.”
So, it is no coincidence many poor and predominantly Latino areas didn’t get a polling place. Purcell and her staff figured few of them vote anyway.
She just decided to discount them. Really.
http://www.azcentral.com/story/opinion/op-ed/elviadiaz/2016/03/22/maricopa-county-election-officials-writing-off-voters-you-bet/82145554/
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