2016 Postmortem

Uncle Joe

(58,365 posts) Wed Apr 20, 2016, 04:10 PM Apr 2016

Sanders campaign, New York officials cry foul after New York voters report issues

New York City (CNN)Bernie Sanders' campaign on Tuesday called reports of voting irregularities in New York state "a disgrace" as local officials rushed to condemn the city Board of Elections for stripping more than 125,000 Democratic voters from the rolls.

"It is absurd that in Brooklyn, New York -- where I was born, actually -- tens of thousands of people as I understand it, have been purged from the voting rolls," Sanders said during an evening campaign rally at Penn State University.

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Election Justice USA, a voter rights organization, told CNN it will go to Federal District Court in Brooklyn on Wednesday morning as part of an effort to have provisional ballots from voters disenfranchised by the Board of Elections counted before the primary results are certified.

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In pledging to audit the board, the office of New York City Comptroller Scott Stringer issued a much stricter verdict.

"The people of New York City have lost confidence that the Board of Elections can effectively administer elections and we intend to find out why the BOE is so consistently disorganized, chaotic and inefficient," he said.

The Clinton campaign had no immediate comment when asked by CNN.

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http://www.cnn.com/2016/04/19/politics/new-york-primary-voter-problem-polls-sanders-de-blasio/

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Sanders campaign, New York officials cry foul after New York voters report issues (Original Post) Uncle Joe Apr 2016 OP

"Gotta win let me win gotta win gotta win..." Yep. bobthedrummer Apr 2016 #1

Bernie ferreting out corruption. Downwinder Apr 2016 #2

Two things that really tick me off aside from the massive voter purging that has taken place Uncle Joe Apr 2016 #3

Voting laws are designed to restrict voting. Downwinder Apr 2016 #4

you can always write in your candidate in the general election. you are NOT being restricted nt msongs Apr 2016 #5

If you can't vote, you can't write anything. Downwinder Apr 2016 #6

bobthedrummer

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1. "Gotta win let me win gotta win gotta win..." Yep.

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Wed Apr 20, 2016, 04:14 PM

Apr 2016

Downwinder

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2. Bernie ferreting out corruption.

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Wed Apr 20, 2016, 04:23 PM

Apr 2016

Uncle Joe

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3. Two things that really tick me off aside from the massive voter purging that has taken place

Reply to Downwinder (Reply #2)

Wed Apr 20, 2016, 04:44 PM

Apr 2016

in Arizona and New York.

New York's early cutoff in allowing switching party registration to the Democratic Vote which took place before the first debate was even held.

Some of Bernie Sanders’s biggest supporters may not be able to vote for him in New York’s primary on Tuesday. Unaffiliated voters are a big share of Sanders’s support, but New York makes it hard for voters to register for a party at the last minute. For example, Erica Garner, daughter of Eric Garner and a Sanders supporter, can’t vote in the Democratic primary because she didn’t change her party registration in time to qualify. It’s an issue for Republicans too: Some high-profile Donald Trump supporters — or at least two of his kids — won’t be able to partake in the fun.

New York’s deadline for switching party registration was Oct. 9, 193 days before the primary. I wanted to know if a party-switch deadline six months before a primary or caucus was as unusual as it sounded, so I went through every state’s election board website to see.1

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Activists have tried to loosen New York’s rules, but with few successes. The Voter Empowerment Act, the most recent attempt, is still stalled in committee in the state Senate. Blair Horner, the legislative director at New York Public Interest Research Group, a liberal nonprofit, says that Albany legislators write rules to make it easier to get re-elected. “New York’s elected officials like to know who the voters are who are showing up in an election,” he said — voters who are new to a party may vote too unpredictably for incumbents’ tastes. New York had one of the lowest turnout rates in the country in 2014, which could help incumbents who have to reach only a small pool of voters.

Sarah Audelo, the political and field director for Rock the Vote, a nonprofit voter registration organization, told me these unexpected extra deadlines like New York’s stymie voters and advocacy groups. Although Rock the Vote does year-round registration drives and is more likely to catch voters in time to satisfy these rules, she said, “smaller-based, issue-based organizations have it really hard with these requirements, especially youth-led organizations.” Neither the New York state Republican Party nor Democratic Party replied to my requests for comment on its primary rules.

http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/its-far-harder-to-change-parties-in-new-york-than-in-any-other-state/

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The second being the corporate media conglomerates constantly falling all over themselves to promote the idea of a possible open convention for the Republicans while dismissing it out of hand for the Democrats.

From a mathematical standpoint, the Republicans; Cruz or Kasich have a much steeper hill to climb to obtain such a result than does Bernie.