The Justice Department is investigating Arizona's disastrously long primary voting lines
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The U.S. Department of Justice is investigating the Arizona county that had hours-long lines at polling locations in March, The Huffington Post reports. In 2012, Maricopa County — the state's most populous county — had 200 polling locations. For the 2016 primary, they had just 60.
The federal government is reportedly seeking more information on the reasoning behind the slash in poll sites.
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