I just read why 64 Bernie NV delegates had their credentials stripped--and I shed a tear or two

[joshcryer]

12. I completely agree that falsely changed registrations are wrong and illegal.

And I do think it happens. In AZ I suspected that some workers would willfully (and illegally) switch people just because they're terrible human beings. And I don't think they were necessarily Democrats switching affiliations, they could well have been Republicans trying to fuck up the process. The worst part is if it's low level shenanigans by terrible human beings is that you will have a very hard time proving it. They wouldn't do it at a level that you could detect, it'd just be "an accident" or "a misstep." We know that in AZ the Republican person in charge of opening polling stations intentionally closed them in heavy Latino areas. I believe she resigned later on but her excuse was that the numbers weren't showing. It didn't just hurt Democrats, it hurt Republicans too, because the number of polling stations led to huge lines.

That being said, however, it is clear to me that in at least some instances in Nevada people changed their registrations from Democrat to independent / unaffiliated and expected to go into the convention as a delegate only to be told that they switched. There's at least one person on Reddit who admitted this huge fuck up.

Now, you'll say "that's not what happened here," and I know you didn't change and I believe that you didn't. I'm saying that there is an element where people voted for Sanders and left the party. There is a 332 rec'd thread here championing leaving the Democratic party: http://www.democraticunderground.com/12511425503

Again, I know that you didn't do this. But out of 64 people I believe it's very possible many of them did do this, not realizing that you can't be a delegate for the Democratic convention without being a Democrat.