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mia

(8,356 posts)
Wed Mar 23, 2016, 08:59 AM Mar 2016

We the People - Sign the petitions.

We petition the Obama administration to:

Do a revote of the Arizona primary due to voter suppression.

We the people ask for a revote of the Arizona primary due to voter suppression. Many registered voters who registered Democrat/Republican before the cut off or who have been registered Democrat/Republican for many years are being turned down due to the mislabeling of their registered party for the primary. We ask that this immediately be corrected and fixed and allow the residents of Arizona to participate in a revote for honest Arizona primary voting results.

Published Date: Mar 22, 2016

Issues: Civil Rights and Liberties, Human Rights

https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/do-revote-arizona-primary-due-voter-suppression



We petition the Obama administration to:

INVESTIGATE THE VOTER FRAUD AND VOTER SUPPRESSION IN ARIZONA 3/22/2016 DEMOCRATIC PARTY.

Petition to have the Obama Administration investigate the voter fraud and voter suppression on 3/22/2016 in ARIZONA. Numerous voters who switched from Independent to Democrat could not vote and were turned away or given provisional ballots which in turn were never counted. We the people of the United States of America find this act alarming and would like a complete investigation to uncover the violations that occurred during the Arizona voting on 3/22/2016 and prosecute those responsible to the fullest extent of the law.

Published Date: Mar 22, 2016

Issues: Civil Rights and Liberties

https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/investigate-voter-fraud-and-voter-suppression-arizona-3222016-democratic-party
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We the People - Sign the petitions. (Original Post) mia Mar 2016 OP
...have voted convincingly for Hillary Clinton to be the nominee of the Democratic Party. DanTex Mar 2016 #1
2.5 million more for Hillary so far workinclasszero Mar 2016 #17
The provisional ballots will be counted after verification of the voter's registration Thinkingabout Mar 2016 #2
Doubt that provisional ballots will ever be counted, mia Mar 2016 #5
Have you ever worked in a voting precinct? It would be very enlightening.. Thinkingabout Mar 2016 #8
Thank you, but "55 percent of the people who cast a provisional ballot (in Florida)... mia Mar 2016 #10
Did you read the article? Provisioal ballots has to be verified, if the information is not Thinkingabout Mar 2016 #13
You make a good point. mia Mar 2016 #15
Just found out that Arizona voters can look up the status of their ballot mia Mar 2016 #16
Let the process complete before jumping to conclusions, getting petitions is not going to speed Thinkingabout Mar 2016 #19
First, We the People demand a Michigan recount! JaneyVee Mar 2016 #3
Go for it! mia Mar 2016 #4
Id rather lmbradford Mar 2016 #6
Votes are up mia Mar 2016 #7
Petitions signed in the last hour mia Mar 2016 #9
For whatever it's worth - votes are up mia Mar 2016 #11
I don't sign this or any online petition that requires my email address BernieforPres2016 Mar 2016 #12
Starting to agree with you. mia Mar 2016 #14
I don't know why; the White House has some great deals on magazine subscriptions... brooklynite Mar 2016 #25
the verifying email is not being delivered so I can not complete the last step. Hiraeth Mar 2016 #18
It took about 15 minutes for mine to come through nt riderinthestorm Mar 2016 #20
ok. thanks Hiraeth Mar 2016 #22
It took about 15 minutes for my verification email to arrive. mia Mar 2016 #21
will look for it. thanks Hiraeth Mar 2016 #23
You are petitioning the President to force a STATE to re-do it's voting? brooklynite Mar 2016 #24
They expect the President to have magical powers Fresh_Start Mar 2016 #26
Actually, your observation makes sense. NurseJackie Mar 2016 #27
updates mia Mar 2016 #28
You can revote a thousand times, it will be the same result: Hillary won AZ. nt BreakfastClub Mar 2016 #29
You could be right. mia Mar 2016 #30
Sign The Campaign Petition Too corbettkroehler Mar 2016 #31
Signed! mia Mar 2016 #32
Shouldn't you include Utah too? BainsBane Mar 2016 #33
Go for it, BainsBane mia Mar 2016 #34
I don't actually believe in overturning the will of the people BainsBane Mar 2016 #36
The will of the people was not respected in Arizona. mia Mar 2016 #37
Then you will include Utah BainsBane Mar 2016 #39
Over 74,000 signatures and rising. mia Mar 2016 #35
Done. RiverLover Mar 2016 #38

Thinkingabout

(30,058 posts)
2. The provisional ballots will be counted after verification of the voter's registration
Wed Mar 23, 2016, 09:11 AM
Mar 2016

Has been, ergo provisional ballot. They will not be counted until the verification is made. If a voter voted on a provisional ballot it is not voter suppression, they were allowed to vote.

Thinkingabout

(30,058 posts)
8. Have you ever worked in a voting precinct? It would be very enlightening..
Wed Mar 23, 2016, 10:31 AM
Mar 2016

It is a part of the civic process which happens all of the time. I dont know if you noticed but all of the delegates have not been given for Arizona, after the verification process and counting happens you will see the delegate numbers change. No one is trying to commit fraud.

mia

(8,356 posts)
10. Thank you, but "55 percent of the people who cast a provisional ballot (in Florida)...
Wed Mar 23, 2016, 10:38 AM
Mar 2016

in the last presidential election -- their vote did not count."
— Bill Nelson on Monday, May 2nd, 2011 in a press conference

http://www.politifact.com/florida/statements/2011/may/02/bill-nelson/bill-nelson-criticizes-state-election-bill-cites-n/

Thinkingabout

(30,058 posts)
13. Did you read the article? Provisioal ballots has to be verified, if the information is not
Wed Mar 23, 2016, 12:21 PM
Mar 2016

certified then the ballot is thrown out, plain and simple. If a person is not able to vote then they are disqualified, ballot is rejected. On the other hand how would you feel if the ballot box was stuffed with "provisional ballots" which did not favor your candidate and your candidate lost the election? Wouldn't you want to know all of the provisional ballots was not certified to vote?

Thinkingabout

(30,058 posts)
19. Let the process complete before jumping to conclusions, getting petitions is not going to speed
Wed Mar 23, 2016, 01:12 PM
Mar 2016

up the process, each one will have to be handled individually.

lmbradford

(517 posts)
6. Id rather
Wed Mar 23, 2016, 09:35 AM
Mar 2016

Get a court order to count all provisionals on the basis that it is proven over and over again that these voters did everything right. Dont make them go through it again, just count their votes!!!!00

BernieforPres2016

(3,017 posts)
12. I don't sign this or any online petition that requires my email address
Wed Mar 23, 2016, 12:19 PM
Mar 2016

So I can be spammed forever by whoever originated the petition and everybody else that buys their list.

The chance that anything is going to be done about this by the Obama administration or anybody else is zero.

brooklynite

(93,851 posts)
24. You are petitioning the President to force a STATE to re-do it's voting?
Wed Mar 23, 2016, 01:22 PM
Mar 2016

I know there are a lot of people here who are apparently new to politics; I didn't know they were knew to civics.

BainsBane

(53,001 posts)
33. Shouldn't you include Utah too?
Wed Mar 23, 2016, 10:07 PM
Mar 2016
http://www.democraticunderground.com/12511564107

There was a mile-long line. If lines are the concern, those results should be overturned as well.

BainsBane

(53,001 posts)
36. I don't actually believe in overturning the will of the people
Wed Mar 23, 2016, 10:40 PM
Mar 2016

because they didn't vote as I want them to. I happen to respect people's democratic rights and think them more important than any candidate. I stood a very long time to caucus myself, and my state went handily for Bernie. I didn't get online and scream voter disenfranchisement because I didn't like how they voted. I accepted their right to vote for whomever they want.

You're the one claiming to care about lines and voter disenfranchisement. That the focus of this petition is exclusively Arizona tells me the outrage is not the lines but because voters didn't choose Bernie. I just thought I'd shine a bit of light on what you all are up to.

Meanwhile, Tad Devine announces that the campaign's new strategy is not only to turn the once maligned superdelegates but even the earned delegates, nullifying the popular vote already cast. It's perfectly clear that goal is not to respect the popular vote but to overturn it.

mia

(8,356 posts)
37. The will of the people was not respected in Arizona.
Wed Mar 23, 2016, 10:58 PM
Mar 2016

Should Clinton or Sanders be our nominee, I don't want either of them to lose in November because of voter disenfranchisement.
This is about much more than who is the preferred primary candidate.

BainsBane

(53,001 posts)
39. Then you will include Utah
Wed Mar 23, 2016, 11:32 PM
Mar 2016

If you truly believe what you say, there is no reason to focus on Arizona to the exclusion of other states, especially Utah.

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