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Bubzer

(4,211 posts)
Thu Apr 21, 2016, 04:49 PM Apr 2016

Bernie: Calling the Hillary NY Cheating "Disgraceful" is Not Enough, It Was Illegal. Do Something.

As the major media, once again, parrots Hillary's "win" in a primary without even a hint of the anger boiling beneath the headlines, due to what can only be called blatant voter suppression tactics, Senator Sanders stumbles but can recover. No, Senator Sanders, what has been happening is not "a disgrace," as you have remarked previously about Arizona and now New York. It is illegal. That is a big difference.

No less a personage than the NYC Comptroller, whose job it is to crunch numbers when something looks fishy, has called into question, by implication, the New York primary results. Comptroller Scott Stringer has "confirmed" that "more than 125,000 voters in Brooklyn were removed from voter rolls." Brooklyn is one of five NY Boroughs. Multiply that by five and you get 625,000 voters. And that's just the city. 1.7 million voters officially turned out for the NY Democratic primary. It takes no genius to see that's a game changer, and a big one.

Comptroller Stringer said in a scathing press release:


“There is nothing more sacred in our nation than the right to vote, yet election after election, reports come in of people who were inexplicably purged from the polls, told to vote at the wrong location or unable to get in to their polling site,” Comptroller Stringer said. “The people of New York City have lost confidence that the Board of Elections..."

Stringer is a Hillary superdelegate. And even he says it stinks. You can't get politically covered any better than that.


http://hubpages.com/politics/Bernie-Saying-the-Hillary-Cheating-is-Disgraceful-is-Not-Enough
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Bernie: Calling the Hillary NY Cheating "Disgraceful" is Not Enough, It Was Illegal. Do Something. (Original Post) Bubzer Apr 2016 OP
What we need is a whistleblower - someone who cares more about the country than... polichick Apr 2016 #1
The person(s) who did this might not even be in this country. stillwaiting Apr 2016 #2
entirely possible. the 1% know no boundaries magical thyme Apr 2016 #5
^^^THIS^^^ ViseGrip Apr 2016 #3
Can Bernie even sue, legally? It may be up to New Yorkers themselves to sue magical thyme Apr 2016 #4

polichick

(37,152 posts)
1. What we need is a whistleblower - someone who cares more about the country than...
Thu Apr 21, 2016, 04:52 PM
Apr 2016

about favors from the Corrupt Clinton Machine.

stillwaiting

(3,795 posts)
2. The person(s) who did this might not even be in this country.
Thu Apr 21, 2016, 04:59 PM
Apr 2016

Very, very few people might even have any knowledge of who did this or to what extent.

I read an article recently where someone from outside the country confessed to stealing elections around the world.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/mar/31/mexico-presidential-election-enrique-pena-nieto-hacking

This individual, a Columbian, hacked elections in many different countries. Our voting and the voting registration process in many, many parts of the country are on computers that can be hacked.

I am not naive enough to think that something like this has not happened in our country. It's too easy, and the stakes are way, way, WAY too high.

We'll need to organize to reform the election SYSTEM in a very comprehensive manner if we are to EVER have faith and trust in our elections again. I believe we deserve to have that faith in our elections, but we have a lot of work to do to get there.

 

magical thyme

(14,881 posts)
5. entirely possible. the 1% know no boundaries
Thu Apr 21, 2016, 05:08 PM
Apr 2016

thank you for link. I vaguely remember reading that; I'd forgotten it somehow. Probably put it out of my mind because it's so depressing.

 

magical thyme

(14,881 posts)
4. Can Bernie even sue, legally? It may be up to New Yorkers themselves to sue
Thu Apr 21, 2016, 05:06 PM
Apr 2016

I've read that was the case in Arizona.

Personally, I think they need to get themselves together and file a class action suit.

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