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On 23 March 2016, Maricopa County (Arizona) Recorder Helen Purcell said that she was to blame for the lengthy lines voters encountered during the state's presidential preference election in March 2016 — lines that critics contended resulted from a deliberate closure of polling places intended to suppress certain segments of the voting populace: While Purcell may have made some bad decisions that led to long voting lines in Arizona, some media outlets additionally accused her of deliberately attempting to suppress the vote, stating that she had deep ties to the Clinton campaign due to her alleged marriage to the late Lieutenant Governor of Arkansas Joe Purcell: It's true that Joe Purcell served as Lieutenant Governor under Bill Clinton. It's also true that Joe Purcell was married to a woman named Helen Hale Purcell. But while the late Joe Purcell's wife and the Maricopa County Arizona Recorder bear similar names, they are not the same person. According to a biography on the Maricopa County government web site, that county's recorder, Helen Purcell, was born in Topeka, Kansas, and has been living in Phoenix since 1964 (the latter being an unusual place of residence if her husband was serving as Lieutenant Governor of Arkansas from 1975–1981). Also, although Helen Purcell's age isn't listed on the Maricopa County government web site, recent photographs of her show a woman far too young to have been college age in 1948, as Joe Purcell's future wife was when he met her in Arkansas. It should also be noted that Helen Purcell is listed as a Republican, making it even more improbable that she somehow conspired to do the Clintons' bidding.
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