Maricopa County: 460,000
Pima County: 80,000
Pinal County: 27,000
Coconino County: 11,000
Navajo County: 5,600
Gila County: 3,400
Apache County: 2,457
Cochise County: who knows? (And why don’t they know?)
The 2012 Arizona election is one for the record books with the vast numbers of uncounted ballots, the largest number of provisional ballots ever, pre-election suppression of Latino vote in Maricopa County, polling place misinformation spread by Jeff Flake’s campaign, questions about the integrity of Pima County’s voting machines, and evidence that the Pima County Elections Department asked for and was granted permission by Bennet not to follow state law when processing ballots. (How many other counties were given a pass on the law by Bennett? An image of the letter is after the jump.)
Now, MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow is using Arizona– and specifically Pima County– as the poster child for need for election reform– because Pima has a history of voter suppression. (Us?)
In 2008, the ACLU named Pima County #1 in the country for voter suppression when F. Ann Rodreguez’s department threw out 18% of the provisional ballots– rather than spend the estimated 45 minutes per ballot to verify addresses. (Why was she re-elected?) We can’t let this happen again. This year we must hold her feet to the fire. Every provisional ballot must counted. If you are one of the 1000s of Pima residents whose vote has not been counted, go here to check on your early ballot and go here to check on your provisional ballot.
After the jump, watch Maddow skewer Arizona for having more than 600,000 uncounted votes. No one should concede until all ballots have been counted. Today’s Arizona Daily Star said that could take another week. We need election reform.
I am assuming so. That is what mine said. I heard that the look-up feature has now been shutdown.
This would have made sense back in the day when telephones were related to geographic location. Back in the 1980s, when I moved from the UA area to the east side, I had to give up my 622 number for a 298 number. 20 years later, when I moved to midtown, I took that old 298 number with me– temporarily– until I dumped the land line altogether. Phone numbers have nothing to do with location. Even area codes are somewhat meaningless with cell phones and unlimited nationwide calling.
So what should the Recorder’s Office site say for early ballots? The last thing on my records say that it was turned over for tabulation – do they update again to say that it has indeed been tabulated?
http://phoenixjustice.blogspot.com/2012/11/reform-our-electoral-system.html
Flake called voters and informed them of their voting place baes on their listed phone numbers. This is information, not misinformation.