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In reply to the discussion: HRC would have been nominated without the superdelegates...that proves we don't NEED them. [View all]questionseverything
(11,790 posts)I will continue to support caucuses as they are harder to manipulate
here is an example...
http://bradblog.com/?p=7875
For example, in the Dem results, there are four different precincts where 4 voted for Morrison, 9 voted for Lincoln and 7 voted for Halter. Not "impossible," but curious. On the Republican side, some of the very same precincts also had identical numbers for each of the eight candidates, and a few more had nearly identical numbers. A few of the precincts also reported what appeared to be the exact same percentages for each candidate as seen in the precincts with duplicated numbers, but where the number of votes is simply doubled. All still not "impossible," but certainly getting much more improbable.
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thousands of votes disappearing with no explanation
that is the state of our elections
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I am not denying there are problems with caucuses, Easter Sunday is foolish but caucuses are how Obama became the nominee
And then the numbers finally became plain "impossible" when examining the number of votes cast in the primaries for the Congressional District 1 U.S. House Race that also took place in Monroe County on May 18th.
In that CD1 race, there were 1,860 Democratic and 318 Republican votes cast, for a total of 2,178. That certainly represents a more reasonable undervote rate, but how can it be possible that there were 1,860 votes cast in the Dem CD1 race, when there were only 600 votes cast in the Dem Senate race, yet the "total votes" were all supposedly accounted for, according to the SoS's turnout numbers, in both the Dem and Republican Senate races?