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

[TexasTowelie]

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

[MichMan]

1. So a bunch of college students procrastinated to register until the very last minute,

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

[safeinOhio]

2. Michigan has expanded

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.

[Happyhippychick]

3. She was interviewed on Fox? I don't need to know anything else, that says it all.

[MichMan]

4. Are you claiming she didn't really say it and they made it up?

[Happyhippychick]

5. No, I'm wondering why a Democrat would go on Fox

[comradebillyboy]

6. Bernie Sanders goes on Fox....

[murielm99]

7. He's not a Democrat.

[comradebillyboy]

8. No he isn't is he.

[Happyhippychick]

9. You made my point

[JustAnotherGen]

10. This in a nutshell

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