If Florida and Michigan hold new primaries, do you think the results will be tainted?

Edited to prevent mischief.

It would be a horrible mistake and open up the entire process to manipulation by the Republican party.

in FL and MI, but not the rest of our primaries?

trust me with a republican government running this state yes-they will whatever they CAN do to fuck the democrats over-Michigan? the dems run the state there will be less chance that there will be monkey business there.

No, I dont think they are tainted at all if both candidates get some campaign time.

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If not, what's the difference between holding one now and in the future?

primaries, etc.

I haven't seen a clean election in Florida since 2000, the first time I paid attention to that state.

The Banana Republic of Florida will fuck up as usual. shrillary will whine and file suit no matter the results.

"shrillary will whine and file suit no matter the results"

Yes, as another DUer has pointed out, Hillary is turning into a political version of Britney Spears on a meltdown.

use the "machines". I hate it 2000, 04 and 08 voter here - Pasco county FL.

there is one thing I do find interesting about the MI & FL results. Both states DEM turnout was less than the R turnout, these are the only 2 states that have had this happen to when you can compare D to R turnouts. I heard this yesterday on CNN I believe, and this tells me that not everyone went out and voted cause they knew it did not count.

So I am down with sticking to the rules that are in play, however I could only imagine a guess what the true the turnout would be if you could/did hold a re-vote.

They're both open primaries, aren't they? And the republicans have had such a good time (and great results) crossing over to vote in our primary elections, I'm sure they'll do it again. Does Pennsylvania have an open primary as well? If so, we are so SCREWED!

Florida is a closed primary state and we always have both parties voting on the same day. The reason tactical voting is a worry if a another vote takes place, is 1) the Republicans already have their nominee, 2) the new primary would only be for the Democrats, 3) you must be a Democrat 29 days prior to the election deadline date if you want to vote on the Democratic Ballot. Being that this event will be so widely publicized due to the controversy surrounding it, it is inevitable that there will be huge amounts of tactical Republican voters.

Another issue of concern would be the fact that we had 8 candidates on our ballot the first time around, and if a revote were to occur, only 2 names would be on the ballot. This would in itself taint the original voice of the people and disenfranchise the candidates that were still active at the time of the election.

I know Michigan is kind of messy with so many candidates removing their names from the ballot, but Florida was a legitimate election minus the inconvenience of the date. Sadly we do still have electronic voting machines until the general election, when we will be switching over to a paper ballot with fill in the bubble “scantron type” optical scan ballots to comply with the states mandates.