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There is no way I can ever do the American election circus justice. I wouldn't even try ihad it not beee for the fact that the fate of the world hangs on it.
RT presents a good place to start when looking at the “elections” in America in which the results of the elections are transparently predetermined
RT presents a good place to start when looking at the “elections” in America in which the results of the elections are transparently predetermined
To
those who object to a Russian media source and might object that
Russia is not a real democracy. The thing is whatever happens in
Russia (and its nothing like what its painted by the presstitutes of
the liberal media) it is simply what it is.
I’ve
never heard Vladimir Putin say that Russia has the greatest democracy
which it wants to export round the globe.
I
know of another country that does.
I
repeat the words - “If Trump wins he’ll destroy the US economy:
if Clinton wins she’ll destroy the world”
Sanders’
campaign condemns NY voter irregularities that leave 125,000
Democrats disenfranchised
RT,
19
April, 2016
Bernie
Sanders’ campaign team has slammed reports of voting irregularities
at the New York state primary as “absurd” after more than 125,000
Democrats were unable to cast their ballots due to a mixture of
broken voting machines, missing ballots and purged voter rolls.
The
figure of 125,000 accounted for voters registered in Brooklyn, the
district where Sanders was born.
Bernie Sanders
Thank you to all those who came out tonight in New York! Onward to five more states voting next week.
Speaking
to his supporters during a rally at Penn State University, the
left-wing senator said it was “absurd” that voters in New York
were having difficulty in being able to vote, or had wrongly been
removed from the voting register.
“It
is absurd that in Brooklyn, New York, where I was born, tens of
thousands of people as I understand it have been purged from the
voting rolls,” he told the rally. “It’s a little bit crazy that
in upstate New York they open the polls at noon. What happens to
people who get up early in the morning and have to go to work?”
Dr. Jill Stein
125K voters disappear as the empire strikes back in the Empire state. Together we'll keep the rebellion alive. #NYPrimary #ImWithJill
Even
New York Mayor Bill de Blasio, who is a supporter of Hilary Clinton’s
bid for the White House, says that major reforms need to take place,
while he said that “numerous voters may have been disenfranchised.”
"It
has been reported to us from voters and voting rights monitors that
the voting lists in Brooklyn contain numerous errors, including the
purging of entire buildings and blocks of voters from the voting
lists," De Blasio said in a statement.
"The
perception that numerous voters may have been disenfranchised
undermines the integrity of the entire electoral process and must be
fixed," he added.
New
York City Comptroller Scott Stringer issued a strong statement saying
that an audit of the New York City Board of Elections (BOE) will take
place, while he called the whole situation “chaotic” and
“disorganized.”
"The
people of New York City have lost confidence that the Board of
Elections can effectively administer elections and we intend to find
out why the BOE is so consistently disorganized, chaotic and
inefficient," Stringer said.
The
problems started early and were widespread, with several polling
stations in New York City and elsewhere opening late.
In
Hempstead, the polls opened half an hour late because the poll's
chairman, the only person able to unlock the machines, hadn't
arrived.
"I
felt disenfranchised and dumbfounded," William Charpied told the
New York Daily News. "It is difficult to understand how
volunteers could be present while the single most important
individual, the chairperson, was missing."
Rebecca Keith
Cooper Park Houses polling site not open yet. Good morning disenfranchisement. #NYPrimary #vote
Ben Casselman
In
some places, including the Bishop Ford School in Windsor Terrace, the
voter registration books for the latter half of the alphabet never
showed up, Gothamist reported. There were no records there of voter
names and signatures corresponding to last names N-Z.
"I
told them my name and they just sort of looked up at me and said,
'We're sorry, we only have one of the books'," Leo Roth told
Gothamist.
Broken
ballot machines held up voting in at least one precinct. As of 11
a.m. local time, all the scanners at PS 216 in Gravesend were down,
and it was unclear when two more would be delivered, according to
Gothamist.
"Both
our scanners are down ‒ it's horrible, we should have had four,"
a Board of Elections worker told voters, who were instructed to leave
their filled-out ballots for agency employees to scan once the new
machines arrived.
There
was confusion on the ballots, too, at least in the 12th congressional
district. While Democratic voters were told to select seven
delegates, there were only six possible choices who supported
candidate Bernie Sanders. His rival, Hillary Clinton, had seven
potential delegates.
When
Gothamists’s John Del Signore asked a poll worker what to do, she
told him: "Oh, it doesn't matter. Some people don't even fill
that part out."
He
later found out from Democratic National Committee spokesperson
Deshundra Jefferson that there is a process for what happens if
Sanders wins the district, albeit a convoluted one.
"This
means that the [Sanders] campaign only had 6 [delegates] to file
while the Clinton campaign had 7. The total allocation will be
proportionally allocated to the two candidates based on the results
in that congressional district,” Jefferson said.
“Finally, if a
candidate had not slated enough delegate candidates, there is a
process in the Delegate Selection Plan to allow for that candidate to
elect the additional delegates."
John Del Signore
You can pick 7 delegates for Clinton, just 6 for Sanders, but does this part matter? "Some people leave it blank"
At
the Lower East Side’s PS 20, Katelyn Glass, a registered
Republican, was handed a Democratic ballot because they didn’t have
any for GOP voters, she told Gothamist.
"I
then came back and... told them I was a registered Republican, and
they instructed me that they had no ballots for my table but I could
either come back or just vote affidavit," Glass said. "The
women in charge literally said, 'You're going to love this. They
never delivered the Republican ballots. I'm a Democrat, but even I
think this is a complete injustice’."
Tiny Daniela
Jordan
#NYPrimary lawsuit lawyers say fact that motion wasn't dismissed is good thing since it preserves right 2 contest election #FeelTheBern
12:21 PM - 19 Apr 2016
There
was some movement on a lawsuit filed Monday by Election Justice USA
on behalf of Democratic voters who claimed their party affiliation
was changed without their consent. Because the New York primaries are
closed, independents and unaffiliated voters are not able to
participate in Tuesday’s hotly-contested primary.
While
there was no hearing, the lawsuit wasn’t thrown out, either.
Affected voters were told to ask for affidavit ballots (another name
for provisional ballots), as they may be counted in the future,
depending on the outcome of the court case.
The
lawsuit is likely not going to affect voters who were not able to
change their party affiliation in time, like Eric and Ivanka Trump,
two of GOP candidate Donald Trump’s children.
Democratic
presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders sought to comfort independents
who weren’t able to vote for him. The Brooklyn native gets boosts
from non-Democrats in open primaries.
“Today,
3 million people in the state of New York who are independents have
lost their right to vote in the Democratic and Republican primaries,”
Sanders told an independent supporter who was unable to vote for the
Vermont senator, according to The Hill newspaper. "That’s
wrong.”
A2thaR2thaZ
If correctly registered as Dem and weren't on rolls for #NYPrimary, ask to vote via Affidavit. Don't wait for Injunctive Relief from court.
“You’re
paying for this election; it’s administered by the state, [and] you
have a right to vote,” Sanders told Michael Cantalupo, a
21-year-old independent who had tried twice to register as a
Democrat. "That’s a very unfortunate thing that I hope will
change in the future.”
Cantalupo
claims that last May the Department of Motor Vehicles lost his
paperwork to change his party affiliation. When he tried again in
December, it was already too late ‒ the deadline to switch parties
before the closed primary had passed in October.
For
its part, the New York Board of Elections blamed the counties for any
voting problems.
NY Board of Election said they have nothing to do with the problems, are "not responsible for the counties" #NYPrimary
Other headlines
Sanders wins majority of NY counties despite Clinton victory
Democratic
front-runner Hillary
Clinton had
a decisive
victory in
Tuesday’s New York presidential primary, but rival Bernie
Sanders won
a majority of the counties in the state.
The
Vermont senator won most of the counties, including Albany County,
where the capital is located.
Colleen Shalby
Clinton’s
victory came largely from sweeping all of New York City’s boroughs
and the surrounding counties, as well as the cities of Buffalo,
Rochester and Syracuse.
With
88 percent of precincts reporting, Clinton led Sanders by 15 points.
She was declared the victor about 40 minutes after the polls closed
at 9 p.m.
Her
win in the Empire State, where she served two terms as a U.S.
senator, was a significant boost as she sought to blunt Sanders’s
recent winning streak.
Clinton
will take a majority of New York’s 247 pledged delegates. She was
ahead by 244 delegates entering Tuesday's primary, according to The
Associated Press
Sanders expresses 'concern' over NY voting laws after primary defeat
New Yorker, Anissa Naoui of RT explains things quite well
U.S. Election Primaries: Why your vote doesn’t mean a thing
And sometimes humor is the best way of presenting the truth
Here is how the CNN presstitutes presented the whole circus
Here is the liberal Young Turks - "vote for the lesser Evil"
And this gives some indication as to why a vote for Bernie might not be quite the revolution people think.
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