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TexasTowelie

(116,849 posts)
Thu Mar 19, 2020, 08:10 PM Mar 2020

Ann Arbor clerk responds to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's complaint about long voter lines

ANN ARBOR, MI – U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-New York, campaigned with Bernie Sanders in Ann Arbor just before the Michigan presidential primary last week.

In an interview on Fox News two days after Sanders lost the state to Joe Biden, the congresswoman complained about voter suppression, citing hours-long lines of University of Michigan students trying to vote in Ann Arbor as an example.

"I think one thing that isn’t being talked about is the rampant voter suppression in this country,” Ocasio-Cortez said in response to a question about why Biden was winning.

"Right there in Ann Arbor where we had that rally, those kids were waiting three hours in line to vote in Michigan.”

Read more: https://www.mlive.com/news/ann-arbor/2020/03/ann-arbor-clerk-responds-to-alexandria-ocasio-cortezs-complaint-about-long-voter-lines.html

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Ann Arbor clerk responds to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's complaint about long voter lines (Original Post) TexasTowelie Mar 2020 OP
So a bunch of college students procrastinated to register until the very last minute, MichMan Mar 2020 #1
Michigan has expanded safeinOhio Mar 2020 #2
She was interviewed on Fox? I don't need to know anything else, that says it all. Happyhippychick Mar 2020 #3
Are you claiming she didn't really say it and they made it up? MichMan Mar 2020 #4
No, I'm wondering why a Democrat would go on Fox Happyhippychick Mar 2020 #5
Bernie Sanders goes on Fox.... comradebillyboy Mar 2020 #6
He's not a Democrat. murielm99 Mar 2020 #7
No he isn't is he. comradebillyboy Mar 2020 #8
You made my point Happyhippychick Mar 2020 #9
This in a nutshell JustAnotherGen Mar 2020 #10

MichMan

(13,230 posts)
1. So a bunch of college students procrastinated to register until the very last minute,
Thu Mar 19, 2020, 08:16 PM
Mar 2020

and somehow that is the fault of the local government that the lines to do so were so long.

safeinOhio

(34,099 posts)
2. Michigan has expanded
Thu Mar 19, 2020, 08:48 PM
Mar 2020

mail in voting. Everyone for any reason could vote by mail. No problem for anyone, unless you wouldn’t vote unless it was by internet. I didn’t hear of any Boomer having a problem.

JustAnotherGen

(33,595 posts)
10. This in a nutshell
Fri Mar 20, 2020, 08:52 AM
Mar 2020

Ann Arbor Clerk -
“Unfortunately, the current laws in Michigan do not allow us to implement Election Day registration at polling places, so everyone who wanted to register on Election Day, and the 14 days leading up to Election Day, was required to come to one place, city hall,” Beaudry said

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