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Leslie is joined by callers as they discuss voters in Arizona waiting up to five hours in line to vote. Many individuals in Phoenix were still waiting in line after the results of the Arizona primary had already been announced!

This, after election officials in Arizona's largest county reduced the number of polling places by 70 percent from 2012 to 2016, from 200 to just 60—one polling place per every 21,000 voters.

To quote Ari Berman of 'The Nation': "Previously, Maricopa County would have needed to receive federal approval for reducing the number of polling sites, because Arizona was one of 16 states where jurisdictions with a long history of discrimination had to submit their voting changes under Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act. This type of change would very likely have been blocked since minorities make up 40 percent of Maricopa County’s population and reducing the number of polling places would have left minority voters worse off. Section 5 blocked 22 voting changes from taking effect in Arizona since the state was covered under the VRA in 1975 for discriminating against Hispanic and Native American voters.

But after the Supreme Court gutted the VRA in 2013, Arizona could make election changes without federal oversight. The long lines in Maricopa County Tuesday night were the latest example of the disastrous consequences of that decision." (Source --> http://tinyurl.com/z7cu55w)

(Image Credit: AP Photo / Matt York)