[EL] Maricopa County, AZ polling place consolidations

[David Becker]

Without expressing any opinion on what occurred in Maricopa County this week, or whether the change would have been subject to a Section 5 objection pre-Shelby, it's important to note that this was not a "reduction in the number of polling places," or "polling place consolidation," per se, but rather a switch from single-polling-place precincts to vote centers, where any voter countywide could cast a ballot. Thus, while the overall number of voting locations was reduced, the number of locations where each voter could cast a ballot was increased, as each could vote at any vote center in the county.


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David J. Becker
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From: law-election-bounces at department-lists.uci.edu [mailto:law-election-bounces at department-lists.uci.edu] On Behalf Of John Tanner
Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2016 12:29 PM
To: Rick Hasen
Cc: law-election at uci.edu
Subject: [EL] Maricopa County, AZ polling place consolidations

For those who are interested in the basis for Section 5 objections to the reduction in the number of polling places, pdfs of all objection letters are now on line at https://www.justice.gov/crt/section-5-objection-letters<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.justice.gov_crt_section-2D5-2Dobjection-2Dletters&d=CwMFAg&c=2qwu4RrWzdlNOcmb_drAcw&r=rN5rVT8Yp2mR5l9MiFbXS7Jfj1A01BLBW2RNVMqASpg&m=3kKvuOwCFKSm7M6DBP-cMtfbNsClIZugc2MTiygtmXA&s=0iawB_pikWUz5nJWYfK2TdelyUfQjlVJiTnqs6KX0HQ&e=>  Note that the large majority of polling place objections were to the selection of an inconvenient site rather than the consolidation of precincts.  I went through quickly (using command/control-f) and found 11.
One objection, the most recent, is available in html at https://www.justice.gov/crt/voting-determination-letter-35<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.justice.gov_crt_voting-2Ddetermination-2Dletter-2D35&d=CwMFAg&c=2qwu4RrWzdlNOcmb_drAcw&r=rN5rVT8Yp2mR5l9MiFbXS7Jfj1A01BLBW2RNVMqASpg&m=3kKvuOwCFKSm7M6DBP-cMtfbNsClIZugc2MTiygtmXA&s=IMAYs-xzViIZAAFezAxWI9OSsysYRliUELxIZ6JNxsw&e=>.  There was a follow-up enforcement action, details of which are at https://www.justice.gov/sites/default/files/crt/legacy/2010/12/15/nharrismont_comp.pdf<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.justice.gov_sites_default_files_crt_legacy_2010_12_15_nharrismont-5Fcomp.pdf&d=CwMFAg&c=2qwu4RrWzdlNOcmb_drAcw&r=rN5rVT8Yp2mR5l9MiFbXS7Jfj1A01BLBW2RNVMqASpg&m=3kKvuOwCFKSm7M6DBP-cMtfbNsClIZugc2MTiygtmXA&s=3DKSx5luR2BuamqYP2VaWDPpCcWD9JN96-lrYVBNZCg&e=>  and https://www.justice.gov/crt/judgment-and-order<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.justice.gov_crt_judgment-2Dand-2Dorder&d=CwMFAg&c=2qwu4RrWzdlNOcmb_drAcw&r=rN5rVT8Yp2mR5l9MiFbXS7Jfj1A01BLBW2RNVMqASpg&m=3kKvuOwCFKSm7M6DBP-cMtfbNsClIZugc2MTiygtmXA&s=ip0dEui5rx69QgynUnvm8lLzsSKmmn4IFdv-ThswH_E&e=>
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