Democratic Primaries

JudyM

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

Tue Mar 3, 2020, 10:30 AM

Mar 2020

and may have kids, as an example. Not a problem for others, certainly, but folks who it’s harder for would’ve been the most likely to have requested mail-ins. Not worth arguing about.

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

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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