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In reply to the discussion: NYC ELECTIONS OFFICIAL SUSPENDED FOR VOTING ISSUES IN BROOKLYN [View all]pnwmom
(109,032 posts)The lawyers who filed the last minute lawsuit trying to open up the primary urged Independent Bernie followers publicly (it was on Reddit and elsewhere) to ask for a provisional ballot and vote for Bernie anyway.
Exit polls showed that between 17 and 20% of people who agreed to talk to the pollsters, when asked for their party affiliation, said they were Independent.
So those people were counted in the exit polls -- but when their ballots were received at the elections office, they weren't immediately counted. They were set aside to be checked against the registration rolls. And since, as Independents, they weren't registered Democrats, their ballots wouldn't be counted then either.
So ballots that were merely provisional were counted in the exit poll but not in the actual results. That's what appeared to have happened.
Concerning the vote purge in NY, an elections official has been suspended due to an action she took. And she is a Rethug. Even in a Democratic state, some Republicans do exist.
In Arizona, the problems that occurred were centered in a county in which the Republican elections official decided on her own to cut back on polling places. This was in a heavily Hispanic area where Hillary had been projected to have a lot of support. This Rethugs' actions did not benefit Hillary.
Why would Hillary run even in the face of an FBI investigation? Because she knows she is innocent.
And because ever since she announced, as a new First Lady, she wanted to do more than make cookies, she's been under one investigation after another, including even being charged with a friend's murder! She has learned to just soldier on, no matter what shit they throw at her.
So, no, I am not a shill. Just someone closer to Hillary's age than you are who has watched the ESTABLISHMENT rise up for 30 years to throw everything it has at her. No woman will truly be part of the ESTABLISHMENT until they are a solid part of the political structure of the US. And since not a single woman has ever been President, and only 20% of the Senate are women, that day hasn't happened yet. Don't delude yourself into thinking it has.
I totally agree with you on making voting easier. In my state everyone is automatically registered when they get their licenses and everyone gets sent mail-in ballots for every election (and there are accommodations for homeless people to name any address they wish or to vote in person). EXCEPT we're still stuck with non-inclusive, non-representative caucuses because the party fought to keep them after the states voters tried to turn them into primaries.