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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]pnwmom
(109,032 posts)He said that Bernie's campaign needed to do more voter education, including at the rallies. For example, eligible voters could have voted by mail. They would have received a postcard with a box to check off, showing which ballot they wanted to receive. Then they would have been sent a Democratic ballot to mail in.
Part of the reason Hillary did so well is that they had all this nailed down. They made sure their voters had their ballots and returned them. Instead of putting on a lot of TV ads, they had phone banks with people who could speak Spanish, Chinese, etc.
P.S. It's too early to know what the situation is with the provisionals. Maybe some of those people met the deadlines and were incorrectly left off the voter rolls. Others missed the primary deadline but will be able to vote in the fall. We don't know yet how many of the provisionals will be eligible to be counted.