Clinton and Sanders Campaigns to Sue Arizona Election Officials

Thousands of voters in Maricopa County, Ariz., waited up to five hours to vote in last month’s primary elections. CreditMax Whittaker for The New York Times

PHOENIX — The Democratic Party and the presidential campaigns of Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders are expected to file a suit on Friday against officials in Arizona over last month’s chaotic primaries, when thousands of voters in the state’s most populous county waited up to five hours to cast ballots and countless others gave up or were barred because of errors and misinformation.

The complaint, which would be filed in Federal District Court here, would seek to increase the number of polling places for the November election and to prevent the state from enforcing a law signed last month by Gov. Doug Ducey that made it a felony to deliver someone else’s mail-in ballot to the polls.

“As virtually every American knows by now,” the complaint says, the management of last month’s primary election, “which was conducted with an alarmingly inadequate number of voting centers, resulted in severe, inexcusable burdens on voters countywide, as well as the ultimate disenfranchisement of untold numbers of voters who were unable or unwilling to wait in intolerably long lines to cast their ballot for their preferred presidential candidate.”

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