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Sanders campaign, New York officials cry foul after New York voters report issues
http://www.cnn.com/2016/04/19/politics/new-york-primary-voter-problem-polls-sanders-de-blasio/Bernie Sanders' campaign on Tuesday called reports of voting irregularities in New York state "a disgrace" as New York City officials contended with the potential for mass confusion in Brooklyn, where the Board of Elections has confirmed that more than 125,000 Democratic voters had been stripped from the rolls.
"From long lines and dramatic understaffing to longtime voters being forced to cast affidavit ballots and thousands of registered New Yorkers being dropped from the rolls, what's happening today is a disgrace," Sanders spokesman Karthik Ganapathy said in an email to CNN, calling the difficulties a "shameful demonstration."
New York Mayor Bill de Blasio, a Hillary Clinton supporter, called for major reforms to the Board of Elections as a series of snafus continued to bubble up, including reports of the errant "purge" in Brooklyn.
"It has been reported to us from voters and voting rights monitors that the voting lists in Brooklyn contain numerous errors, including the purging of entire buildings and blocks of voters
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lunasun
Apr 2016
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msongs
(67,416 posts)1. imagine that, all those hillary voters purged. nt
dhill926
(16,343 posts)2. this is really fucked up....
they need to get this figured out...it's NY not Alabama for chrissakes....
lunasun
(21,646 posts)7. Agree.I dont care who won,and not the same as another case like AZ
but this is some serious right to vote negligence. How can entire buildings and blocks of voters get purged????????
Vadem
(2,596 posts)3. Bernie should not concede until every vote is counted!! n/t
Gman
(24,780 posts)4. Why is it that
Sanders people have no complaints when he wins a state?
SCantiGOP
(13,871 posts)5. Clinton is cheating so effectively
that her 2.4 million total vote margin over Sanders is now about 2.7 million.
johnp3907
(3,732 posts)6. They're crying, alright!
Gamecock Lefty
(700 posts)8. Feeling the Bern? New York Isn't!!!
Note to Barney Slanders: Don't jump into our party for an opportunistic run for President, trash our candidate and expect there to be no repercussions!