PHOENIX — A Maricopa County poll worker who was on duty during Arizona’s problematic presidential primary testified Monday that the computer system checking in voters would not allow her to give the correct ballots to 36 Democratic voters while she counted about 20 other voters that were listed in the wrong party.
The testimony by Dianne Post came Monday at the start of a hearing on an election challenge in a courtroom packed with voters and election officials, including Recorder Helen Purcell, the top election official in the county.
Post, an attorney, testified a machine she was using to check in voters at a Maricopa County location failed to give 36 people the proper ballot.
“Every single time it happened to me it was a Democratic voter who wasn’t able to access a Democratic ballot,” she said.
Another 22 people at her location were listed in the wrong party, she said. Her polling place also ran out of ballots for at least two congressional districts.
Alisa Wolfe, a resident of Pima County, testified her voter registration was improperly changed from Democrat to independent.
Wolfe said she was able to vote provisionally after speaking to the Pima County Recorder’s Office and being told the problem was a computer glitch.
Before testimony began, Assistant Attorney General James Driscoll-MacEachron attempted to have the legal action dismissed. Among other things, he claimed the primary doesn’t fall within the scope of what electors can challenge.
The hearing before Maricopa County Superior Court Judge David Gass was convened after he rejected requests to dismiss the lawsuit.
It’s expected to last two days.
The Democratic Party and party candidates Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders are suing the state citing the “alarmingly inadequate number of voting centers resulted in severe, inexcusable burdens on voters countywide, as well as the ultimate disenfranchisement of untold numbers of voters who were unable or unwilling to wait in intolerably long lines,” according to the lawsuit.
YIKES! I didn´t know that the Democratic party stooped so LOW.
Thank god that that the Republican would´t stoop so low as to launch a voter fraud disguised as an incorrect ballots. YIKES YIKES YIKES!
It's a rigged system for the political elite. We the people are just finally choosing to recognize and do something about it. In a perfect world, the primaries should be redone where this has been an issue. Unfortunately...
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