Sanders: Arizonans waiting 5 hours to vote is 'a disgrace'

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47. I am trying to explain how this behavior, blamed on the Republicans, is a damn pattern.

I arrived on DemocraticUnderground at the urging of fellow DU member Andy Stephenson.

In 2004, we were both voting activists. Before Stephenson's untimely death in July of 2005, he tried to give the Upper Echelon of the Democratic Party the information that the Black Box situation would mean elections would not be fair. That news casters calling the "win" of any candidate before the votes were counted was simply not a just and not a righteous way to hold a "free election."

He tried to warn them that the "Usual Shenanighans" regarding election protocols of the Republicans needed to be a top priority of the Democratic Leadership. The reason he did this back then in 2005 was precisely so that what happened this past month would not have occurred.

The reason that this stuff is happening now is because Democratic Leaders did not want to straighten things out at all. They have been totally indifferent about gerrymandering, about Black Box voting, about the fact that there is little in the way of legal remedy if one candidate receives an election win with less than 1 percent of the vote total.

In nations where the voting integrity rating is high, there is a universally triggered hand count of ballots in such a situation. Here in the USA, if the "losing" candidate can get a recount AT ALL, the ballots are simply swiped through the same easily-jimmied machinery that counted them for the original tabulation!

On edit: The Upper Echelon's stance on what Stephenson told them was so rigid that even Amy Goodman refused to deal with Black Box Voting issues. And in part due to the "news blackout" of the voting issues, most Americans do not understand that exit polling is a science, and not something to be dismissed lightly.

But the Upper Echelon uses all the various in's and out's of the voting scams as a most certain way to make themselves money and to gain power.