Puerto Rico Dems "appalled" by accusations from Sanders camp [View all]

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Source: The Hill

The head of the Democratic Party of Puerto Rico slammed the Sanders campaign on Saturday for accusing it of unfairly denying poll workers access to prisons to help inmates vote.

"I am appalled at the remarks from the spokesperson of the Bernie Sanders Campaign in Puerto Rico, Ms. Betsy Franceschini," local Democratic Party president Roberto Prats said in a statement.

Franceschini had accused party officials in Puerto Rico of witholding certifications from Sanders officials, initially preventing them from organizing voters in prisons.

"The claim that the Democratic Party is delaying the certification of the Sanders' poll workers is preposterous. The first complete set of pollworkers for tomorrow's primary we have certified were all from the Sander's Campaign."

Read more: http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/dem-primaries/282237-puerto-rico-democratic-party-denies-wrongdoing-in-primary

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If the original Bernie campaign accusation is "late breaking news" then so is this story from The Hill reporting the Democratic party response.

The truth is that the prison system, not the Democratic party, handles prisoner voting; and that the Sanders campaign had reps at the polling places.

The party is also accusing the Sanders campaign of "stealing two boxes of ballots that had been cast by prisoners before delivering them to an election office. "