Post by Logan on May 11, 2016 4:46:46 GMT -6
Lawmakers passed on polling-place fix as another election error surfaces
Despite an agreement to require more polling locations in the wake of March's voting fiasco, the House of Representatives failed to bring a bill that would bring those changes to a vote in the final hours of last week's session.
It is unclear why House Bill 2017 didn't get a vote. It leaves unaddressed an issue that affected thousands of Maricopa County voters who stood in long lines to vote in the March 22 presidential preference election.
Meanwhile, about 200,000 households outside of Maricopa and Pima counties are belatedly receiving publicity pamphlets that outline the issues in this month's special election. Voting has been underway for 2 1/2 weeks on Proposition 123, which deals with education finance, and Proposition 124, a public-safety pension reform measure.
The Arizona Secretary of State's office cited a vendor error as the reason the pamphlets did not get mailed to households outside of Maricopa and Pima counties where the residents had asked to be on the permanent early-voting list.
Read more: www.azcentral.com/story/news/politics/legislature/2016/05/09/arizona-lawmakers-bill-polling-locations/84147266/
All talk and no action by the Legislature. Voting should not be a complicated affair and wait times that exceed more than 15 minutes are unacceptable since they discourage participation in one of our most important civic duties.
Despite an agreement to require more polling locations in the wake of March's voting fiasco, the House of Representatives failed to bring a bill that would bring those changes to a vote in the final hours of last week's session.
It is unclear why House Bill 2017 didn't get a vote. It leaves unaddressed an issue that affected thousands of Maricopa County voters who stood in long lines to vote in the March 22 presidential preference election.
Meanwhile, about 200,000 households outside of Maricopa and Pima counties are belatedly receiving publicity pamphlets that outline the issues in this month's special election. Voting has been underway for 2 1/2 weeks on Proposition 123, which deals with education finance, and Proposition 124, a public-safety pension reform measure.
The Arizona Secretary of State's office cited a vendor error as the reason the pamphlets did not get mailed to households outside of Maricopa and Pima counties where the residents had asked to be on the permanent early-voting list.
Read more: www.azcentral.com/story/news/politics/legislature/2016/05/09/arizona-lawmakers-bill-polling-locations/84147266/
All talk and no action by the Legislature. Voting should not be a complicated affair and wait times that exceed more than 15 minutes are unacceptable since they discourage participation in one of our most important civic duties.