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2016 Postmortem

reformist2

(9,841 posts) Sat Jun 11, 2016, 07:06 AM Jun 2016

First, here's the story on the 8.9 million people who voted:

http://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2016-06-10/86m-people-estimated-to-have-voted-in-ca-primary

Now, here's the latest vote totals: Only 3.8 million votes cast on the Dems side, and 1.6 million on the Repug side:

http://vote.sos.ca.gov/returns/maps/president/party/democratic/

That's only 5.4 million votes. where did the 3.5 million other votes go???

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State issue races. nt justiceischeap Jun 2016 #1

Hillary hid them. JoePhilly Jun 2016 #2

Jerry Brown helped her. BootinUp Jun 2016 #19

They are still counting and more delegates to be awarded. Thinkingabout Jun 2016 #3

There were more races Hav Jun 2016 #4

most votes cast in CA are by mail onenote Jun 2016 #14

True, we can all agree that it takes quite long Hav Jun 2016 #16

I don't know whether I understood you correctly Hav Jun 2016 #15

Aren't you throwing out the vote of one of our fine DUers with this? NCTraveler Jun 2016 #6

Where do you get the 10% from? NCTraveler Jun 2016 #12

So here's what's so frustrating about proportional allocation Recursion Jun 2016 #7

They were wiped. With a cloth. bigwillq Jun 2016 #17

No matter how many times the Alamo story is told MyNameGoesHere Jun 2016 #20