2016 Postmortem

Loudestlib

(980 posts) Thu Apr 21, 2016, 12:08 AM Apr 2016

New York Had the Second Lowest Voter Turnout So Far This Election Season

The Kings County Board of Elections purged 126,000 registered Democrats from the voting rolls in Brooklyn, prompting an outcry from Mayor Bill de Blasio and an audit from Comptroller Scott Stringer. “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 from the voting lists,” de Blasio said. “The perception that numerous voters may have been disenfranchised undermines the integrity of the entire electoral process and must be fixed.”

Polling places didn’t open on time, voting machines malfunctioned, and voters showed up to find their names weren’t on the rolls. Some voters had their party affiliations mysteriously switched from Democratic or Republican to Independent or Non-affiliated and couldn’t vote in the closed primaries. And three million New Yorkers, 27 percent of the electorate, didn’t get to vote because they weren’t registered with the Democratic or Republican parties, and the deadline to change party affiliation was an absurd 193 days before the April 19 primary, as I reported on Monday.

http://www.thenation.com/article/new-york-had-the-second-lowest-voter-turnout-so-far-this-election-season/

Sanders biggest mistake was trying to run a clean campaign against a dirty candidate.

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New York Had the Second Lowest Voter Turnout So Far This Election Season (Original Post) Loudestlib Apr 2016 OP

low voter turnout helps clinton too insightdeluxe Apr 2016 #1

Read this figure, 19.7% Uncle Joe Apr 2016 #2

No problem! Loudestlib Apr 2016 #6

Do you think they care about letting people vote? senz Apr 2016 #11

+1 Cavallo Apr 2016 #13

I agree, Cavallo. senz Apr 2016 #16

I feel the same way, senz Uncle Joe Apr 2016 #14

. senz Apr 2016 #17

Deranged to blame NY state/city voting problems on Clinton geek tragedy Apr 2016 #3

That's how they like it...they'll make it happen one way or another. haikugal Apr 2016 #4

The problem is that once you go down the dirt road, there's no going back. bjo59 Apr 2016 #5

K & R (NT) Eric J in MN Apr 2016 #7

Dem primary turnout has been way down compared to 08, meanwhile leveymg Apr 2016 #8

Clean campaign? Oh brother. Lucinda Apr 2016 #9

Ooo, she not dirty at all, she so kleen. senz Apr 2016 #15

Sanders didn't run a clean campaign. That fundraising letter he sent out the day before pnwmom Apr 2016 #10

+1 Cavallo Apr 2016 #12

insightdeluxe

(32 posts)

1. low voter turnout helps clinton too

Reply to Loudestlib (Original post)

Thu Apr 21, 2016, 12:12 AM

Apr 2016

Uncle Joe

(58,364 posts)

2. Read this figure, 19.7%

Reply to Loudestlib (Original post)

Thu Apr 21, 2016, 12:17 AM

Apr 2016

As a result, only 19.7 percent of eligible New Yorkers cast a ballot, the second lowest voter turnout in the primaries after Louisiana, according to elections expert Michael McDonald. There were over 900 calls from frustrated voters to the Election Protection Coalition, more than in any other primary state.

That's pathetic.

Thanks for the thread, Loudestlib.

Loudestlib

(980 posts)

6. No problem!

Reply to Uncle Joe (Reply #2)

Thu Apr 21, 2016, 12:39 AM

Apr 2016

senz

(11,945 posts)

11. Do you think they care about letting people vote?

Reply to Uncle Joe (Reply #2)

Thu Apr 21, 2016, 02:57 AM

Apr 2016

I don't think so. You need a heart, soul and conscience to care about such things -- and they don't. It just makes them laugh, ha ha ha ha ha. Truly they, and their candidate, are one.

I hope there will be investigations and indictments of these and all the "irregularities" that cluster around this amazingly corrupted individual.

I do not want it anywhere near the White House.

Glad there are people like you, Uncle Joe.

Cavallo

(348 posts)

13. +1

Reply to senz (Reply #11)

Thu Apr 21, 2016, 03:11 AM

Apr 2016

I hope it isn't dropped and there is a real investigation and not a token one.

I don't know if the current one is real or token.

senz

(11,945 posts)

16. I agree, Cavallo.

Reply to Cavallo (Reply #13)

Thu Apr 21, 2016, 03:25 AM

Apr 2016

Given the totality of the corruption, it's hard to tell.

Uncle Joe

(58,364 posts)

14. I feel the same way, senz

Reply to senz (Reply #11)

Thu Apr 21, 2016, 03:14 AM

Apr 2016

and thank you for the kind words.

Peace to you.

senz

(11,945 posts)

17. .

Reply to Uncle Joe (Reply #14)

Thu Apr 21, 2016, 03:29 AM

Apr 2016

I find you reassuring, Uncle Joe. And it's nice.

Thanks.

geek tragedy

(68,868 posts)

3. Deranged to blame NY state/city voting problems on Clinton

Reply to Loudestlib (Original post)

Thu Apr 21, 2016, 12:23 AM

Apr 2016

Kind of crazy talk associated with Donald Trump and Charlie Sheen

haikugal

(6,476 posts)

4. That's how they like it...they'll make it happen one way or another.

Reply to Loudestlib (Original post)

Thu Apr 21, 2016, 12:23 AM

Apr 2016

bjo59

(1,166 posts)

5. The problem is that once you go down the dirt road, there's no going back.

Reply to Loudestlib (Original post)

Thu Apr 21, 2016, 12:37 AM

Apr 2016

Eric J in MN

(35,619 posts)

7. K & R (NT)

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Thu Apr 21, 2016, 12:52 AM

Apr 2016

leveymg

(36,418 posts)

8. Dem primary turnout has been way down compared to 08, meanwhile

Reply to Loudestlib (Original post)

Thu Apr 21, 2016, 01:21 AM

Apr 2016

GOP participation has risen about 30 percent from eight years ago. Combine that with Hillary's extremely high negatives particularly among Independents who are the largest bloc of voters and you have a disaster in the making in November.

Lucinda

(31,170 posts)

9. Clean campaign? Oh brother.

Reply to Loudestlib (Original post)

Thu Apr 21, 2016, 02:15 AM

Apr 2016

senz

(11,945 posts)

15. Ooo, she not dirty at all, she so kleen.

Reply to Lucinda (Reply #9)

Thu Apr 21, 2016, 03:17 AM

Apr 2016

She the cleanest thing around, Lordy, is she clean!

And we're not worried about any ol' "indictments."

She got connections, she got money, she got clout, ain't nobody gonna dare indict her.

But let justice run down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream.

But let justice run down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream.

But let justice run down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream.

pnwmom

(108,979 posts)

10. Sanders didn't run a clean campaign. That fundraising letter he sent out the day before

Reply to Loudestlib (Original post)

Thu Apr 21, 2016, 02:27 AM

Apr 2016

the primary was the essence of dirty tricks campaigning -- insinuating, without a bit of evidence, that Hillary and the DNC had colluded in some nefarious way in the George Clooney fundraiser.

As the law allows, Hillary was able to take up to $2700 from each individual donor, or $5,000 per couple -- and all the rest went to the DNC and the state parties. In 2006 Bernie was the beneficiary of a similar fundraising effort by Hillary and the DNC, and he was happy to take $10,000 from Hillary for her efforts. Was he corrupt because he took money from her 2006 fundraiser? Neither were any of the others who received donations, and neither were the candidates who got them this time around.

But this wasn't the only example of dirty campaigning on his part -- just the one closest to the NY primary.

Cavallo

(348 posts)

12. +1

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Thu Apr 21, 2016, 03:10 AM

Apr 2016

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