2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumThe California primary results are not final until at least 21 days from
now when the many provisional ballots are counted.
I hope that Bernie will ask his legal team to have those ballots sequestered by a court and watch as they are being counted and reviewed.
I saw a lot of provisional ballots being required today. A lot of young Bernie supporters left the polls with a pink slip which represents the fact that they voted on provisional ballots.
It is not over until every ballot is cast and counted.
Nice to get some good news. We still have a democracy.
passiveporcupine
(8,175 posts)I thought they were supposed to be getting cross over ballots...if they are getting provisionals, I worry they will not be counted.
JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)supposed to have cross-overs. I instructed voters to request cross-overs. But think of it. You are young and the first in your family to vote in an American election. Are you going to argue with the intimidating people who sit behind the table and don't find your name on their list of Democratic voters but rather find it on a list of decline to state voters and then tell you to take a pink provisional ballot? Probably not.
We are talking about young people. We are talking about a system that is not well understood. We are talking about gentle, legally unsophisticated people who don't want to argue with what seems to be authority.
brooklynite
(96,882 posts)amborin
(16,631 posts)JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)Bernie voters are madder than Hell because of what happened in California today, in Arizona a short time ago and some events in other states.
BobbyDrake
(2,542 posts)Cheese Sandwich
(9,086 posts)eastwestdem
(1,220 posts)Keep fighting Bernie!
pat_k
(10,883 posts)and then there's the obstacle course NPP voters were expected to navigate http://www.gregpalast.com/california-stolen-sanders-right-nowspecial-bulletin-greg-palast/
We'll never know what the results would have been without suppression of NPP's and other problems at the polls. The disrespect our nation has for it's own elections is an outrage.
beachbum bob
(10,437 posts)threshold....always seems one set of rules for all those not named sanders and another set for bernie....has nothing to do with his ego, nothing at all....lol