Bernie Sanders
In reply to the discussion: I hope everyone understands that these results tonight cannot possibly be real. **UPDATE** [View all]JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)We need to find out how many provisional ballots were required today in Los Angeles County in California. It was incredible.
Some of the voters who had registered and were shown as registered on-line were not listed on the printed sheets of voters at the polls.
Voters who registered decline-to-state and were shown on the lists as registered in that party designation are supposed to be able to vote in the Democratic primary. But they were being given pink, provisional ballots that will not be counted for 21 days.
I spoke to a woman who said she voted Democratic for 29 years and discovered today that she was registered as either Libertarian or Green and was not allowed to vote.
Lots of mistakes. It was similar to the kind of disenfranchisement and shenanigans that have gone on coincidentally (?) to the detriment of Bernie voters in state after state.
Is the DNC and are its pawns really that worried about Bernie?
I did not believe these stories about voter disenfranchisement by the Democratic machine until I saw it myself today in local polling places.
It was in most cases not the fault of the poll workers although one poll worker appeared to be demanding that voters go home and get their sample ballots (which she collected neatly in a stack) before they could receive real ballots. Maybe she was checking addresses of voters who claimed to be registered but were not listed in the polls. I have no idea.
But it was chaos, and with that kind of chaos comes disenfranchisement and discouragement of voters.