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leftcoastmountains

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Fri Feb 19, 2016, 08:54 PM Feb 2016

Sanders Fangirl sings about #FilmTheCaucus

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Published on Feb 19, 2016

Sanders Fangirl sings a little song about our grassroots efforts to bring global transparency to the caucus process.

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Sanders Fangirl sings about #FilmTheCaucus (Original Post) leftcoastmountains Feb 2016 OP
As someone who experienced the Iowa Caucus CoffeeCat Feb 2016 #1
Do we have any options in getting 840high Feb 2016 #2
I don't know. She's the head of the Iowa Dem Party. CoffeeCat Feb 2016 #3
Thank you. Makes me so 840high Feb 2016 #4
I'm still unclear about what happened CoffeeCat Feb 2016 #5

CoffeeCat

(24,411 posts)
1. As someone who experienced the Iowa Caucus
Fri Feb 19, 2016, 09:12 PM
Feb 2016

and the unprecedented chaos, dirty tricks and other bullshit--due to the Clinton corruption machine--I cannot
stress how important this is.

I am hoping that Nevada doesn't have a Democratic Party Chair like Iowa did. Does anyone know if the Nevada Dem Chair has a license plate that reads, "HRC2016"? If so, I'd bring a margarita machine to your caucus, cause you're going to need it.

They cheated in MY precinct! How does one get over that? One doesn't.

Take those phones. Take pictures of the final delegate counts that you send in. And be prepared for massive bullshit dirty tricks, and cheating. Don't be caught of guard!

Our 2008 caucus had a record-breaking 240,000 supporters. Unprecedented. And it went off without a hitch. This year, 170,000 people participated, but for SOME WEIRD REASON it was bedlam, mass hysteria, shennanigans and cheating. Then, we had a Democratic Chairperson "license plate" who refused to consider any audits, despite people calling in and telling her that the official Iowa Democratic Party results were WRONG! It wasn't until Iowans went to the Des Moines Register that "license plate" finally folded and agreed to correct the cheating.

Do you know how Iowans caught those errors? There was a PDF on the Iowa Democratic Party website. Front-page. It listed every Iowa precinct--all 1,680--and the final delegate count. Iowans could look at that PDF and spot if errors were made. Guess what? Six days after the caucuses, the Iowa Democratic Party removed the PDF. Now, there's no way to find any more errors. Isn't that lovely?

Yep. Democracy in action.

Be prepared Nevada! I never thought this would happen in my state. Film your caucus!

CoffeeCat

(24,411 posts)
3. I don't know. She's the head of the Iowa Dem Party.
Fri Feb 19, 2016, 10:22 PM
Feb 2016

The party appoints her.

I am still terribly distraught by all of this.

I don't know that there are other errors. However, several precinct captains who attended the caucuses noticed the errors. If errors were spotted within a few days after the caucus, there is a chance that there are other errors. But I guess we will never know because that PDF is gone.

I did save a link to the PDF. I have it. However, I have the one big piece of the puzzle. Who are the other 1680+ precinct captains?

The thing about those errors...The precinct captains reported their numbers correctly. The error happened with the Iowa Democratic Party. On their official count, they flipped numbers. For example in one precinct, Bernie got 5; Clinton 4. The precinct captain, checked the numbers and it was flipped to Clinton 5; Sanders 4 on the PDF. This was not an error made at the caucus. This was the IDP making the errors. So...

People found errors and publicity started heating up because of the Des Moines Register article. Then the PDF was taken down.

I'm still grieving. Lifelong Dem, probably going to register Indie very soon. Devastating loss for me.

 

840high

(17,196 posts)
4. Thank you. Makes me so
Fri Feb 19, 2016, 10:27 PM
Feb 2016

mad that cheaters exist. Sorry it took me a while to respond - company showed up.

I'm over crooked politics. That's why I support Bernie and not Hillary. In '08 I loved her. I really want what's best for our country and our people.


CoffeeCat

(24,411 posts)
5. I'm still unclear about what happened
Fri Feb 19, 2016, 10:48 PM
Feb 2016

but it was evident that something caused mayhem this year.

There were so many problems.

And I'm not suggesting that the Dem Party Chair orchestrated a bunch of cheating. My issue is that she was/is an ardent Clinton supporter and she refused any sort of audit--despite people alerting her to errors. She shut it down and said the results were final. The people who found errors went to the Des Moines Register. They wrote an op-ed, "Something smells in the Iowa Democratic Caucus" and after public pressure the IDP allowed the errors to be fixed.

I'm glad those errors were fixed. However, there are questions surrounding how those errors were made. It is possible that there are further errors. I have no idea if the results are being audited. If things are being looked into. It appears that the books are closed.

It's disheartening that the PDF is gone.

Thanks for your empathy and for your concern.

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