Sanders Folks Upset About Registration Rules in NY [View all]

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They're complaining that they're having problems with their voter registration. Supposedly, their party affiliation has been changed. I think the reality is that some independents and republicans are just now finding out that they can't vote in the closed primary unless they changed their affiliation back in October.

NY Election Boards Inundated With Calls From Voters "Pissed Off" About Registration Issues

Since shortly before the late deadline to register to vote in the April 19th presidential primary in New York, state Board of Elections spokesman Tom Connolly said his office has been fielding nearly 100 calls a day from voters who are "pissed off" about their registration status, for one reason or another. On social media, there are dozens of reports from voters who say they checked their registration online recently and found that their party affiliation had been switched, which is disqualifying because New York's primaries are closed, or that that their registration couldn't be found altogether.

We could not verify the details of the majority of those accounts, but the discoveries alarmed many would-be voters, most of them seemingly Bernie Sanders supporters. Sanders fans are already on tenterhooks over long lines at the polls in Arizona, which the Justice Department is now investigating, and polling place electioneering by former president Bill Clinton in Illinois and Massachusetts, which local election officials declared proper, among other factors that they argue have skewed the primary process for Hillary Clinton.

At the New York Board of Elections, Connolly said that his office looks into all complaints, and though the volume has been higher this year than his office has ever seen, "I've yet to come upon any example of any kind of mal-intent or inappropriate change of a voter's record."

Rather, he said, the increased call volume can be explained by heightened interest in this year's primary and New York's newfound relevance to the nomination. As for the complaints themselves, the circumstances vary, but he said there's a rational explanation for each instance of seeming irregularity. For one, he explained that the complaints are largely coming from Democrats—"a lot" of them Sanders supporters. (There have also, he noted, been some Donald Trump supporters who are angry that they missed the deadline to change their party to Republican.) Because many voters only turn out for presidential elections, and Democrats didn't have a primary in 2012, it has been eight years since many people thought about their registration, he said.

So, as the last underlined portion indicates, this jackass doesn't bother to vote in off year elections, and now he's mad because he's too flipping stupid to have checked before this year? Well, fuck him and the horse he road in on! He shouldn't need some pixie dust unicorn fart rfaux revolution to inspire him to get engaged. He'd be one of those who doesn't show up to vote in off year elections so we can win back Congress. Some of these people aren't low information voters, THEY'RE NO INFORMATION VOTERS!


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