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In reply to the discussion: 'It was just chaos': Broken machines, incomplete voter rolls leave some wondering whether their ball [View all]JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)and lack of organization at the Democratic polls.
No one votes Republican in my part of Los Angeles so those voting booths were empty when I was visiting the polls.
One of the poll workers in a polling place I visited insisted that would-be voters go home and get their 'SAMPLE BALLOTS' which are courtesy ballots sent to the voters. When they didn't have those sample ballots it appeared to me that she was giving them the pink slips -- the provisional ballots.
My area is strongly for Bernie. We shall see if there were more provisional ballots in my area than in Hillary areas of Los Angeles. We shall see. It is possible that this was a perverse Hillary trick on the voters in my area. If the percentage or even number of provisional ballots on Los Angeles' East side is greater than in the Valley or West Side, I will be suspicious.
But it was a very poorly disorganized primary election.
I spoke to a woman who said she had voted Democratic for 29 years and learned suddenly today that she is now registered as either Libertarian or a Green party. She was not allowed to vote in the Democratic Primary at all.
It was another Hillary primary day -- lots of cheating, confusion and voter disenfranchisement. I would like to think it is not Hillary's fault, but it has happened so consistently across the country that I really can't assume that it is just innocent coincidence.