Does anyone think the DNC rigged the primaries?

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87. No rigging, but a lot of ignorance about how primaries work

and that they don't work the same in all states.

California sent out its mail-in ballots today, so I expect that in a week or so we'll be seeing a repeat of the 2016 confusion. California has a semi-closed primary in that voters registered with a party can only vote in that party's primary: however, each party can choose whether of not it will let No Party Preference voters (aka Independents) to vote in its primary. This year, as in 2016, the Democratic, American Independent, and Libertarian parties are allowing this while the other three are not. The kicker, though, is that an Independent voter has to ask for the ballot for the party they want: if they don't, they get the non-partisan ballot with all the other races and issues but not the president. My county was proactive and sent out a reminder back in November with a postage-paid reply card to ensure Independent voters get the ballot they want: based on 2016, though, I expect a lot of whining about how this has been done especially to discourage Bernie voters. California has been running primaries this way since 2000.

New York has improved its voting requirements for primaries since 2016: non-affiliated voters now can change their party to Democratic as late as mid-February for the end of April primary - this is better than the previous requirement to change party affiliation according to some arcane formula that turned out to be 10/2015. Or was it earlier - it was arcane. AFAIK, though, New York still has the weird process whereby polls in counties around New York City and Buffalo are open longer than those in rural counties, which was supposed to have been a way to discourage voters in areas where Sanders had more support. The weird hours went back to the early 1900s.

The other accusations I expect to see include "someone switched my party". There were a lot of these back in 2016, and the only one I know of came from a DUer who was reminded that she had posted the previous year that she herself had changed parties for what seemed like a good reason and then forgot to change back.