Voting Arizona: Chaos in the wake of efforts to suppress the vote

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Conventional wisdom has it that the re-election of PresidentObama means efforts to suppress the vote failed.
Try telling that to tens of thousands of voters in Arizona.   
You remember Arizona: The state where basic informationabout when to vote keptgetting, literally, lost in translation, with Spanish-language informationsometimes misstating the date for the election.
It turns out, that wasn’t the only problem.
As of Saturday 486,405ballots still had not been counted – this in a state with 3.1 millionregistered voters.  Of that total,178,785 are “provisional” ballots, often cast by voters who couldn’t meet thestrict requirements of Arizona’s Voter ID law. (The remainder are ballots cast through early voting.)
According to The NewYork Times:Activists say that they believe, based on what they have heard frompeople in the field, that provisional ballots tended to be used most often inHispanic and black neighborhoods. …  Advocatesand elected officials are worried, though, that voters who had to castconditional provisional ballots because they forgot to bring identification tothe polls, as state law requires, may not know they have to present their ID atthe county elections office by Wednesday for their vote to count.
The counting of these ballots may determine the outcome ofseveral races.  In a race for a newCongressional seat in Phoenix, counting of provisional and early ballotswidened the lead of Democrat  Kyrsten Sinema to the point that theAssociated Press has declaredher the winner over Republican Vernon Parker.   Democrat Ron Barber, a former aide to Rep. GabrielleGiffords hasretaken the lead in a very close race to keep that seat, which he first wonin a special election to succeed Giffords.
And the Timesreports there’s a slim chance that even the results of the U.S. Senate electionin Arizona might be in doubt:
[A]s of Friday, Jeff Flake, a Republican congressman, wasahead of his Democratic challenger, Richard H. Carmona, by 78,775 votes,according to unofficial results posted by the secretary of state.  Mr. Carmona conceded on Tuesday; on Friday,in a message to supporters, he wrote, “We will take every necessary step tomake sure all of our supporters’ ballots are counted.”The U.S. Department of Justicewas concerned enough about the mess in Arizona to send in federal observers,something it is empowered to do thanks to the Voting Rights Act of 1965.  That, of course, is the civil rights law somesay no longer is needed.The U.S. Supreme Court has justagreedto hear a challenge to a key provision of that law– though this challenge, even if successful, would not affect the right to sendin federal observers.