2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumMaybe all the voters registration crap happens all the time
we just don't notice it because we aren't sensitized except during important elections.
My registration is intact as is my son's.
My husbands' registration is MIA.
He and I have voted side by side for years.
However he does have a common name...so maybe he's being confused with someone else who's moved out of state or something.
ret5hd
(20,435 posts)Que sera sera, nothing to do about it, don't see what all the fuss is, accidents will happen, etc.
Damn, we need more of that attitude! Things would get fixed in a right hurry then!
Fresh_Start
(11,330 posts)only you, not me.
I'm sorry I don't run around in a constant state of paranoia.
My husband doesn't either.
His attitude is don't attribute to malice what can readily be explained by incompetence.
LonePirate
(13,386 posts)Look at the Brooklyn voter purge. That was massive incompetence but some people seem to think it was a deliberate act specifically intended to harm only Bernie voters.
The AZ mess was intentional; but it impacted all voters without targeting a specific voter group. Everyone was a victim there.
pdsimdars
(6,007 posts)that said you did something about your husband's registration. People aren't generally mind readers.
And I don't think your situation is what people are talking about. What if you voted for Bernie in the primary and were selected as a delegate. When you went to the convention, you were not let in because somehow, your registration had been changed to Republican? Withing 2 months, your life long Democratic registration had been changed to Republican after you became a Bernie delegate.
You think that might make you upset?
Fresh_Start
(11,330 posts)so that he has time to reregister.
The person who responded to me believed that they were able to read my mind.
Why didn't you blame them for erroneously believing they were a mind reader.
Agnosticsherbet
(11,619 posts)This is a permanent part of the election process, sadly.
onecaliberal
(32,489 posts)Happening to republicans
LonePirate
(13,386 posts)Hillary voters were impacted in both AZ and NY. The problems are not exclusive to Bernie voters.
There are three reasons, though, which might explain why some Bernie voters feel they are being disproportionately affected. First, many of them are independents who do not have one of the two major parties protecting or watching over their registrations.
Second, if many Bernie voters are disaffected voters who have not voted in ages, then it's possible their registrations were purged during regular maintenance that all stats perform. Active voting Democrats, Hillary's main voting bloc, are less likely to experience this problem because they regularly vote.
Third, it's possible shady voter registration drives (usually Republican sponsored) could be at play here. We've all heard stories about voter registration forms being trashed or not turned in so maybe some of that is happening. Again, with Hillary voters being long term Dems, they are less likely to experience this problem.
Granted, all of these problem should not occur. However, none of these (except maybe the third one) are specifically targeting Bernie voters.
Fresh_Start
(11,330 posts)my son is a Bernie support and his registration is intact
onecaliberal
(32,489 posts)To republican after voting twice to get to that point as dems. This has happened in at least 3 states, not once has it happened to Hillary delegates.
Fresh_Start
(11,330 posts)maybe its not only bernie delegates
timmymoff
(1,947 posts)no, ok thank you
Fresh_Start
(11,330 posts)see it says VOTERs, not just delegates.
timmymoff
(1,947 posts)You should probably know this.
Fresh_Start
(11,330 posts)maybe you should be looking for a delegate thread...instead of telling me what my posts were about.
timmymoff
(1,947 posts)Please read it, I accept your apology in advance.
Fresh_Start
(11,330 posts)no question about that.
And I responded that my family had a MIA voters registration for a non-bernie supporter.
Which was in direct response to #3 claim that it only happens to Bernies supporters.
and you essentially said so ....are they delegates.
you are the person who narrowed the discussion to delegates.
Until that point it was voters and delegates.
CK_John
(10,005 posts)The 50 states issue guide lines and the feds issue fed election rules.
In many districts only volunteers work on registrations, others assign a temp or in most cases someone in the office nobody likes.
These offices could be at the county, town, village, school district, water district, highway district level. It's not a plumb assignment.
Are there going to be errors? You betya.
bemildred
(90,061 posts)And our politicians almost uniformly think that is great.
Lindsixo
(18 posts)it's not reason to leave it that way. It still unfair to the people who don't get to vote, and it makes it harder to tell when there is actual cheating.