I wonder how many of her attackers realized Roberta Lange is a Bernie endorser?

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87. Are you seriously claiming no Sanders supporters are on the state central committee?

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And that the chair who is a Sanders supporter refused to allow nearly half of those delegates at the state convention to run for those positions? Based on what? Or are you pissed off registered Republicans aren't able to run Nevada's Democratic Party?

Politifact ruled this entire nonsense being perpetuated about the Nevada state Democratic convention to be without evidentiary basis. The results of the state convention in terms of delegate allocation mirrored the outcome on caucus night. http://www.politifact.com/nevada/statements/2016/may/18/jeff-weaver/allegations-fraud-and-misconduct-nevada-democratic/?platform=hootsuite

But if you want to know what the real problem is, it's the caucus system, which limits voter participation rates to the lowest of any other system, averaging 3.7 percent this year. That Bernie continues to complain about closed primaries while saying nothing about the far more restrictive caucus system shows that he and those who repeat his arguments care only about Bernie's political prospects and not about expanding access to the franchise.

I live in a state that has caucuses, but at least delegate allocation (in terms of presidential candidates) is fixed on caucus night, so we don't have any uncertainty as to how many delegates will move on to the national convention for each candidate. The only question is about who gets to be a delegate: Bernie supporters vote on Bernie delegates; Clinton supporters vote on Clinton delegates. Everyone votes on committee assignments.

The the absurdity of this sort of outrage over 4 delegates when he trails by hundreds shows the extent to which rationality has long been abandoned.

Then the fact that this is all within a context in which Bernie's argument for the nomination is that superdelegates should nullify the results of elections already cast in order to install him as the nominee in violation of the will of the electoral majority shows the extend to which he is willing to overturn the people's right to elect their nominee via the ballot box in order to advance himself.
The voice mails left to the NV Dem Chair lends particular insight into the nature of the self-entitlement underlying the hatred for the Democratic party, Clinton, and the majority of voters who have voted for her to be the nominee. They continue to protest because ultimately what the resent is electoral democracy itself. In insisting any election in which Bernie doesn't win is fraudulent, they show complete contempt for the rights of anyone but themselves to participate in voting for elected leaders.