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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)I don't know whether it will be statistically significant. It seemed like an awful lot of provisional ballots were being given out, far more than appropriate.
Decline-to-state voters are by law eligible to vote in Democratic primaries. Many of them were young Bernie voters who did not want to register as Democrats. (Don't ask me why. We tried.) Others were voters who had registered and were shown as registered on-line but who were not on the printed lists. I was told that the polls got updates as recently as yesterday, but the numbers of new voters was I suppose just so enormous they could not list them all and print out the full lists.
It was a mess, and there were a lot of provisional ballots. The "final" totals for today will not be the real final totals. How much they will diverge from the final tallies in 21 days, I do not know and could not guess based on my limited experience and observation.