Democratic Primaries

BumRushDaShow

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22. I was thinking the same but then I keep forgetting that people actually vote for "delegates"

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Tue Mar 3, 2020, 07:23 AM

Mar 2020

and the delegates would then "pledge" to the voter's chosen candidate. And I think that is why the endorsements by several of the candidates who dropped out... Usually they will instruct or at least encourage their delegates to move their support to one of the remaining candidates.

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden

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I am warning all now, my state of registration (CA) is going to turn into a pure shitshow tonight [View all] Celerity Mar 2020 OP

Good grief. No doubt the Sanders gang will be screaming the system is rigged. honest.abe Mar 2020 #1

This is bad. But who's kidding whom? Sanders, and Biden, Hortensis Mar 2020 #28

amazing that ballots have been out for weeks yet this is only tonight being known/ hmmm msongs Mar 2020 #2

I have been talking about this for days, they (the Bernie people) have been going bonkers for weeks Celerity Mar 2020 #7

at least three different ways for NPP voters stopdiggin Mar 2020 #75

and even more odd not a peep from the sanders campaign even tho this is so well known..or not msongs Mar 2020 #3

He doesn't want more registered Democrats... LuvLoogie Mar 2020 #48

Ding ding ding !! we have a winner! MH1 Mar 2020 #72

extremely likely! stopdiggin Mar 2020 #74

It is indeed complicated. ucrdem Mar 2020 #4

Honestly, if they registered as Democrats lapfog_1 Mar 2020 #5

Completely agree Rorey Mar 2020 #26

Well you may have a narrow definition for the word "valid". former9thward Mar 2020 #36

Ok, change valid to convincing Rorey Mar 2020 #38

I tried! former9thward Mar 2020 #71

Unfortunately we need closed primaries grantcart Mar 2020 #79

I was freaked out at first catchnrelease Mar 2020 #6

If there's anyone who looks bad in a fedora it's Greg Palast. stopbush Mar 2020 #8

lolol, this is true Celerity Mar 2020 #10

so its not rigged, its just a bad system for people who dont bother to read their mail before they msongs Mar 2020 #9

Exactly. It was pretty much the same system in 2016. SunSeeker Mar 2020 #12

This message was self-deleted by its author LizBeth Mar 2020 #17

it goes back to 2000 IIRC Retrograde Mar 2020 #67

and california has same day registration nt msongs Mar 2020 #11

Within the Voter Information Guide I received, so-called NPP voters have 3 options . . . Journeyman Mar 2020 #13

the problem is it looks like hundreds of 1000's just mailed in the NPP ballots with no POTUS choice Celerity Mar 2020 #14

Well, it is an opportunity for us all to make choices . . . Journeyman Mar 2020 #16

That's on them. TwilightZone Mar 2020 #42

I am not the one who is going to going batshit, foaming at the mouth cray. Celerity Mar 2020 #43

Well, we know from experience that the results will be delayed. TwilightZone Mar 2020 #47

Wow. OK Celerity - I get it now. denem Mar 2020 #15

Bernie can't claim not to have known this because they had the same issue in 2016. pnwmom Mar 2020 #18

Maybe he just assumed that the rules have been changed in his favor without looking? bluedye33139 Mar 2020 #53

DID NOT have to be registered Democrats stopdiggin Mar 2020 #78

Similar in Florida... Sancho Mar 2020 #19

I am registered Non-Partisan. My voter registration number was scanned, a screen came up LoisB Mar 2020 #20

What happens to the folks that early voted for candidates that have now dropped out? Enter Username Here Mar 2020 #21

I was thinking the same but then I keep forgetting that people actually vote for "delegates" BumRushDaShow Mar 2020 #22

This message was self-deleted by its author LoisB Mar 2020 #23

Is it an open primary? Sunsky Mar 2020 #24

We have (for POTUS) a semi-closed primary, which is the type Celerity Mar 2020 #25

I prefer a closed primary Sunsky Mar 2020 #27

I disagree. It will hurt us in the general IMHO, as there are so, so many Celerity Mar 2020 #44

They choose to be independent because wnylib Mar 2020 #65

why tempt fate, the last thing we need to do is to take a more restrictive, reductionist stance Celerity Mar 2020 #66

Sorry, just can't agree. They know wnylib Mar 2020 #68

I'm registered as NPP in CA, requested the Democratic ballot, voted for Biden. It wasn't difficult. chia Mar 2020 #29

It isn't difficult, and well documented in the voter registration pamplet sent to every registered still_one Mar 2020 #33

+1000 chia Mar 2020 #34

Other than the refusal to give them a ballot with names at precincts dsc Mar 2020 #30

Hundreds of thousands of NPP mailed in the ballots with no POTUS choices Celerity Mar 2020 #31

They can go to any polling place including on election day and ask. If I receive a ballot without a still_one Mar 2020 #35

Not once they mailed them in. When they're looked up in the system they'll be blocked. JudyM Mar 2020 #39

That is correct, however, when I look at my ballot, and if I don't see a selection for the still_one Mar 2020 #41

Great if you have time and transportation, not a given for folks who are taking a bus to two jobs JudyM Mar 2020 #49

good points still_one Mar 2020 #50

They could be people voting for any candidate. OnDoutside Mar 2020 #54

Of course. But demographically speaking it would make a relative difference. JudyM Mar 2020 #57

Hispanic voters perhaps, but then I'm being told on another thread that Sanders ground game is OnDoutside Mar 2020 #61

There's this new-fangled thing called a telephone Retrograde Mar 2020 #69

THANK YOU ! stopdiggin Mar 2020 #81

If they sent instructions on how to swap whose fault is that? dsc Mar 2020 #37

Apparently so. I am not playing devils advocate, just trying to inform on what the Sanderite crowd Celerity Mar 2020 #40

I know you are. I did a similar thing in 2016 here telling folks if they were registered as NPP, still_one Mar 2020 #45

Yw! Celerity Mar 2020 #46

................... still_one Mar 2020 #51

there was a voter information pamphlet stopdiggin Mar 2020 #80

This message was self-deleted by its author still_one Mar 2020 #32

Voters who didn't request a primary ballot for the Democratic party did not get one. bluedye33139 Mar 2020 #52

How could the Sanders campaign be so incompetent not to see this was an issue for them, when OnDoutside Mar 2020 #55

If they have NPP, why should they get to vote in Dem primary?.. SidDithers Mar 2020 #56

because we have a semi-closed (for POTUS only) primary, which is the most common form in the US. Celerity Mar 2020 #58

Well, that is going to be a shitstorm. I'd hate to be a precinct worker today in CA hlthe2b Mar 2020 #59

I was thinking the same thing. Those poor folks..... FM123 Mar 2020 #73

Them are the rules set by the party. Bernie agreed with that structure. NYMinute Mar 2020 #60

This is all very true, but Bernie and his base will not see it that way, they have been on the Celerity Mar 2020 #64

It has been all over the news for a least the past month SoCalNative Mar 2020 #62

Awesome redqueen Mar 2020 #63

Become a democrat and there is no problem Pisces Mar 2020 #70

+++ still_one Mar 2020 #76

If the NPPs wanted to vote for Sanders, vlyons Mar 2020 #77

many on this string taking the same stance stopdiggin Mar 2020 #82

I vote in California... Mike Nelson Mar 2020 #83