2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumCard Reader Issues In Kentucky Push Hillary Clinton Ahead Of Bernie – Pike County Votes Erased
"The 2016 presidential election has already been filled with election board scandals, controversy, and votes being lost all over the place. Tonights primary election in Kentucky is not even fully over as of this writing, but the controversy is truly heating up. At one point, card readers malfunctioned and votes were fully erased from Pike County, Kentucky. This ended up pushing Hillary Clinton ahead of Bernie Sanders and angering a lot of voters.
At one point, Pike County actually had all of their data wiped away and cleared out to represent all zeroes in the vote totals. Upon returning, 20 percent of the total votes were missing and Clintons numbers were pushed up over Bernie Sanders.
WKYT reported that the AP had actually erased all votes from Pike County and those numbers pushed Clinton back up by over 4,000. The Pike County Clerks Office said that there was an issue with one of their card readers, and it ended up causing them to have a delay on their numbers. Social media is losing their collective minds with this situation, and Pike County, Kentucky is said to be demanding a recount.
Apparently, it wasnt just Pike County that was reporting some problems in Kentucky as a number of others were having issues. Early in the night, at least five Kentucky counties had some kind of technical problem and it caused issues with vote counts.
Pike County Election official
Floyd County Special or absentee ballot/One electioneering within 100 feet of polls
Rowan County Election official and procedural question
Boyd County Voting machine
Johnson County Procedural question
As of 10:20 p.m. Eastern, Oregon Live was reporting that Hillary Clinton was leading Bernie Sanders in Kentucky by a tally of 46.7 percent to 46.3 percent. Some are stating it is too close to call with 99 percent of the votes counted, but most believe that the issues in different counties are a big problem."
http://www.inquisitr.com/3107235/card-reader-issues-in-kentucky-push-hillary-clinton-ahead-of-bernie-sanders-pike-county-votes-erased/#780gRlTx6KrCtC7L.99
Here's some more backstory on pike. I really hope the do a physical hand count in that County.
yourpaljoey
(2,166 posts)Ferd Berfel
(3,687 posts)Lets STOP referring to evil manipulative crap as Dirty Tricks!
The term Dirty Tricks is a term for something cutesy and benign. What they have done, are doing, and will continue to do, is not cute, and it is not benign. What they are doing is a blatant, premeditated, dishonest, underhanded and direct attack on the foundations of Democracy. They are a calculated backdoor full assault, designed to subvert, undermine and manipulate the Nation, the Constitution, the Truth, Reality and the democratic process.
Switching the salt and sugar in their respective containers for April Fools day - is a Dirty Trick.
Filling a paper bag with dog shit, leaving it on someones door step, lighting it on fire, ringing their doorbell and running away is a Dirty Trick. (I've done this myself - I was 12)
What Nixon did to Muskie, what Reagan did to Carter and what the Bushies did to Gore, McCain, and others was not cute, and it was not benign. What they did was nothing less than subvert the democratic process to hijack the Nation.
This is what cowards do when they cannot make an honest, factual, truthful and convincing argument. When they know that reality and facts are NOT on their side.
We have some heavy thinkers here. So do the Nation a service and find another term for this evil, corrupt, and dishonest practice. Start calling it what it is, and calling the people that do it, what they are.
yourpaljoey
(2,166 posts)ViseGrip
(3,133 posts)NWCorona
(8,541 posts)I'm thinking about it lol! This is crazy stuff.
ViseGrip
(3,133 posts)dana_b
(11,546 posts)in so many states where Clinton eeks out a win, there ends up being crap like this hapening.
So Bernie MAY have won KY bu we may never know now.
Hand recount!!!
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)Answer: That is the purpose of the machines. To enable the establishment to glitch any candidate they don't back.
NWCorona
(8,541 posts)dana_b
(11,546 posts)NWCorona
(8,541 posts)I'll admit I'm not 100 on that tho.
dana_b
(11,546 posts)hopefully both the Sanders and Clinton campaigns!
Mike__M
(1,052 posts)Bernie wins states with caucuses, states with open primaries, states on the Pacific; Hillary wins states with closed primaries, states in the South, states with election irregularities.
NWCorona
(8,541 posts)I see what you did there
okieinpain
(9,397 posts)NWCorona
(8,541 posts)And actually she had a drop box stolen from her strongholds in Kentucky.
LaydeeBug
(10,291 posts)madokie
(51,076 posts)I've been saying this since day one
Hillary has had here sights set on the whitehouse ever since bill won in '92. Not sure if maybe she didn't before then even