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2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumVoting in the Virgin Islands Caucus...
@HillaryClinton Just voted in the USVI caucus. Ballots colored Green=Hillary,Blue=Bernie. The see-thru collection box was 95% Green.
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Voting in the Virgin Islands Caucus... (Original Post)
brooklynite
Jun 2016
OP
Benchmark Politics: Looks like when I said VI would report "soon" it is "Guam soon"
BootinUp
Jun 2016
#11
WhiteTara
(29,718 posts)1. Looks like she cheated again
by winning!
LAS14
(13,783 posts)2. Did you really just vote at 6:38, Eastern, 7:38 Atlantic time?
When do the caucuses finish?
MADem
(135,425 posts)14. You probably don't understand that the poster is "quoting" a tweet from someone
who is actually NAMED in the quote?
smh!
BootinUp
(47,165 posts)3. Geebus, now I am even more on pins and needles. lol.
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)4. How dare she get more votes!
sheshe2
(83,793 posts)10. It's rigged!
She got the green ballots and there are MORE of them!
DesertRat
(27,995 posts)18. Those green ballots have a known Clinton bias!
Demsrule86
(68,593 posts)5. Thanks for the update
We thought the polls closed at 6:00. When do they close?
MADem
(135,425 posts)15. Brooklynite is NOT the voter. He is quoting a voter from twitter. nt
Equinox Moon
(6,344 posts)6. By name recognition
yallerdawg
(16,104 posts)7. 67 delegates and counting!
LAS14
(13,783 posts)8. Clinton 4, Sanders 0 out of 12. Oh, sorry....
.... that's super delegates.
yallerdawg
(16,104 posts)12. We count superdelegates!
We are the reality-based wing of the Democratic Party!
seabeyond
(110,159 posts)9. Well, exciting. Nt
BootinUp
(47,165 posts)11. Benchmark Politics: Looks like when I said VI would report "soon" it is "Guam soon"
https://twitter.com/benchmarkpol/status/739227080945061889
So what does that mean?
Benchmark Politics
?@benchmarkpol
Looks like when I said VI would report "soon" it is "Guam soon"
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3:47 PM - 4 Jun 2016
?@benchmarkpol
Looks like when I said VI would report "soon" it is "Guam soon"
Retweets
2
Likes
20
3:47 PM - 4 Jun 2016
So what does that mean?
JackRiddler
(24,979 posts)13. Did your tweeter get a good dig into the see-thru collection box?
I mean, for accuracy's sake.
Sounds like a totally legit way to do a secret, clean ballot. I think they did it that way in El Salvador in the early 80s? In this case minus the M16s, presumably?
72DejaVu
(1,545 posts)16. It's a caucus
No secret ballots.
brooklynite
(94,602 posts)17. This was a caucus, not a Primary...
...sort of like standing in a room in Iowa.