2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: I just read why 64 Bernie NV delegates had their credentials stripped--and I shed a tear or two [View all]DeminOR
(5 posts)Federal law requires that people be allowed to register to vote when they renew their driver's license. DMVs send updated addresses, renewal info to Election Divisions. In several states, faulty form and database design has resulted in people's partisan affiliation being changed to unaligned.
This became a big issue in Oregon when the new automatic voter registration system made all the newly registered people unaligned and they didn't realize they actually had to choose a party. Of course, imagine the outrage if they just randomly assigned people a party.
It's Hanlon's Law in action. Don't attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by stupidity. Of course, it's not as exciting or motivating as imagining a big conspiracy, but it does have the advantage of being the most likely explanation.
And to the person who cited the database hack, that makes so sense whatsoever. The investigation is complete, the investigation that Sanders campaign signed off on, and that investigation proved that the only one campaign used the window of opportunity to break into a competing campaign's proprietary data. Sanders campaign was proven to have hacked Clinton and it's proven that neither Clinton nor O'Malley hacked anyone.