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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)We went around putting hangers on doors with all that information.
But at the polls everything was very new and confusing to many of the young Bernie supporters and to people of other cultures who do not understand the voting we view as commonplace.
I don't think that people from other states understand the diversity that is California.
I went to canvass at a house today. The mother of the voters was on the porch. She came to me and said she has a visa and is living in the US for some time. She said she could speak English but can't read or write it. She asked me what she could do to become a citizen so she could vote too. I told her to check out courses at the public high school.
This is a more common situation in Los Angeles than it is elsewhere in the country. To take advantage of new voters and people who are new to our ideas and customs about voting is very cruel. But I saw it happening today and was very disgusted with it.
Hillary's first campaign speech that I noticed was about voter disenfranchisement. It takes many forms. I saw an obscure, subtle one in California today.
The final results in California will not be in for at least 21 days after today if the rest of California was handled as my area of Los Angeles was.