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Signatures that were needed by April 21, 2016 to reach goal of 100,000
Total signatures on this petition
206,297
This one, to the White House:
INVESTIGATE THE VOTER FRAUD AND VOTER SUPPRESSION IN ARIZONA 3/22/2016 DEMOCRATIC PARTY.
Petition to have the Obama Administration investigate the voter fraud and voter suppression on 3/22/2016 in ARIZONA. Numerous voters who switched from Independent to Democrat could not vote and were turned away or given provisional ballots which in turn were never counted. We the people of the United States of America find this act alarming and would like a complete investigation to uncover the violations that occurred during the Arizona voting on 3/22/2016 and prosecute those responsible to the fullest extent of the law.
https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/investigate-voter-fraud-and-voter-suppression-arizona-3222016-democratic-party
Agschmid
(28,749 posts)billhicks76
(5,082 posts)I know firsthand the Nevada video is true.
Nevada video is but the rest???
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" Open Letter to Bernie Sander's Campaign from Supporters:
We, as your supporters/volunteers/donors and advocates for the People's movement are DEEPLY concerned about what appears to be systemic election rigging within the Democratic primary and the failure of the Sanders' campaign to address problems as they have revealed themselves.
State by state, we have witnessed serious issues with caucus rigging (video evidence emerging showing Clinton staff miscounting votes/allowing Clinton voters to go into caucuses unregistered, misinforming caucus participants of rules resulting in invalidating Sanders votes). The violations were so severe in Iowa that the editorial board of the newspaper that endorsed Hillary Clinton for the Presidency, the Des Moines Register called for an independent audit and full investigation to determine what went wrong. In Nevada, we have video of Clinton supporters being allowed to vote in the caucus unregistered and miscounting vote. The concerns about manipulations by the Clinton campaign in Nevada resulted in Nurses United (the Nurses' union that endorsed Sen Sanders) to request independent polling monitors be brought in to oversee elections in remaining primary states.
In addition, we have seen a consistent trend of exit polling not matching election outcomes in Arizona, Massachusetts, Missouri, Iowa and Illinois indicating wins for Senator Sanders in these states. Additionally, exit polls in other states indicate much closer outcomes than reported results. In Massachusetts, we witnessed unadjusted exit polls indicating a double digit win for Bernie Sanders and hand counted precincts in Massachusetts going to Senator Sanders by 17% over Hillary Clinton. In Arizona, exit polls conducted by the Daily Courier indicated Sanders winning by 62% over Clintons 37% yet current results are indicating an inexplicable double digit win for Clinton. Exit polling has been consistently correct in predicting Republican primary outcomes from the same outlets conducting the Democratic polling. This is a major red flag.
We also have video evidence that Bill Clinton broke the law by campaigning INSIDE Massachusetts polling places and shutting down polling stations for several hours as he canvased these precincts. Despite this being against state law, the severe disruption in voting that occurred, and a petition of over 100,000 people demanding that the state take legal action against Clinton for these violations, nothing was done. This emboldened Bill Clinton to repeat the same behavior in precincts in Illinois, and Hillary Clinton was seen campaigning at a precinct in North Carolina during voting on that state's primary day. Voters felt enormously disrespected that the Clinton's interfered with our voting process and upset the Sanders campaign did not hold them to account for illegally disrupting our voting process.
Additionally, there is a serious concern about purged voter roles with voters in every primary state thus far reporting incidents where individuals were either removed from the roles or did not have their registration update changes in status that would have allowed them to participate in the 2016 Democratic primary. Florida and Arizona was the most egregious in voters reporting removal from the roles with many citizens being denied the vote entirely or only allowed to vote on provisional ballots. Additionally, in Arizona we witnessed mass suppression of the vote as the state provided only sixty polling places for participation in contrast to the 200 that were available for the 2012 uncontested Democratic primary election. Voters reported waiting in lines for up to six hours. The mainstream news media predicted a victory for Clinton with available exit polling data indicating a Sanders win and thousands of voters still waiting in line to cast a vote. This reeks of wag the dog politics, and we have zero faith that the outcome in Arizona is any way indicative of the actual results of that election.
Additionally, we are finding that vote by mail and absentee ballot registration is consistently favoring Hillary Clinton THREE to ONE and this is occurring EVEN in states where Sen Sanders is winning in double digit blow out margins over Clinton.
This is a short list of the issues and problems that have been reported in the Democratic primary thus far. Please refer to this blog for sources, videos, documentation, and video evidence compiled by state. The claims made in this petition are documented on this site.
https://electionfraud2016.wordpress.com/
As supporters of this movement, we are troubled by the failure of the campaign to address these issues as they have arisen. We are puzzled why hand recounts of sample precincts were not requested in states where exit polls and election outcomes did not match. The machines we vote on are subject to tampering and remote hacking and election results have been shown to change by simple calibration of these machines. We are disturbed that the campaign failed to follow up with recounts in Missouri when exit polls showed a clear Sanders win in this state, and election precinct totals showed statistically improbable changes to favor Clinton in larger voting areas such as St Louis. If the campaign did not want the voters to incur the cost for a full recount in this state, it would have been prudent to request hand recounts of ballots in precincts that presented red flags. Our concern in Missouri, and indeed all the primary states, is not to pick up one or two extra delegates, but reveal what we believe could be mass election fraud.
Given the amount of evidence, it has come to the point of irresponsibility by the campaign to continue to ignore this issue. Volunteers and supporters have given literally hundreds of thousands of man hours and millions of dollars in donations to drive this campaign to success. We have a right to expect the campaign will employ every possibly means of safeguarding our vote. Therefore, we request the campaign:
Fully contest the election results in the state of Arizona. The amount of voter suppression and problems in this state demand a full revote.
File for hand counts in states where exit poll results did not match election outcomes where it is legally allowed. If the campaign does not want to pay or recount entire states, we implore the campaign to request counts in states that presented red flags in reporting statistically improbable changes that favored Hillary Clinton. (St Louis in Missouri, Chicago in Illinois, etc). Immediately pursue any redress available in Massachusetts to the full extent of the law
Conduct exit polling in future primary states and immediately request sample hand counts of precincts if election outcomes do not match polling results to document for any possible fraud and challenge results wherein such fraud is documented.
Immediately respond to any future illegal behavior from the Clinton campaign (Bill Clinton illegally canvassing polls, video evidence of caucus rigging from Clinton campaign) and reports of mass voter purging or vote suppression by pursuing any/all legal avenues to provide redress.
It is the campaign's duty to ensure that they utilize every avenue available to protect our vote and ensure that our movement to elect a People's representative to the Presidency isn't thwarted by illicit or illegal tactics from any entity.
In solidarity
The People. "
Verifiable
Human101948
(3,457 posts)This crap must be stopped.
Tom Rinaldo
(22,913 posts)Yes it must be stopped.
B Calm
(28,762 posts)AxionExcel
(755 posts)ananda
(28,873 posts)And kick!
Helen Borg
(3,963 posts)turbinetree
(24,710 posts)Honk-----------------for a political revolution Bernie 2016
meow2u3
(24,767 posts)Wow!!
2 days and over 100K signatures?! I see it and I don't believe it!
KPN
(15,647 posts)Anyone who cares about election integrity and hasn't signed this petition, please sign it now! We need to send strong message. Democracy is at risk here!!!
Ilsa
(61,696 posts)zeemike
(18,998 posts)And by that time we will have forgotten all about it and it will quietly be dropped.
Then they can do it all over again in the next one if they need to.
But I will sign it anyway.
valerief
(53,235 posts)SCVDem
(5,103 posts)Fight this crap!
fourcents
(107 posts)Voters were not the problem that is a typical GOP agenda.. Election fraud now that is a problem.
corbettkroehler
(1,898 posts)After a tepid start, I feared that the threshold wouldn't be met. Now, I'm honored to have signed in the first wave and encouraged others to follow suit.
mithnanthy
(1,725 posts)Enough voter suppression!
Duval
(4,280 posts)My husband signed also. I'll see if I can get a couple of neighbors to sign.
beastie boy
(9,394 posts)whether you are a Bernie supporter, or a Hillary supporter, or, for that matter, a Trump supporter.
This is how things get done.
lpbk2713
(42,766 posts)This wasn't bringing records up to date or consolidating for the sake
of clerical efficiency. They knew they were violating the law.
All in it together
(275 posts)Make it illegal and put em away. This is the killing of democracy.
I signed at least.
TIME TO PANIC
(1,894 posts)Thespian2
(2,741 posts)I have signed. I will do all I can to keep the criminal Clintons our of the WH...
JesterCS
(1,827 posts)corbettkroehler
(1,898 posts)With more than 1 million people unable to vote, all supporters of free elections should sign the WH.gov petition to demand a re-vote in Arizona:
http://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/do-revote-arizona-primary-due-voter-suppression
840high
(17,196 posts)desmiller
(747 posts)Jenny_92808
(1,342 posts)It must be stopped!
Babel_17
(5,400 posts)That's notable.
stupidicus
(2,570 posts)I know this to be true because so many HC supporters said so
NorthCarolina
(11,197 posts)eom
SpankMe
(2,963 posts)hopeforchange2008
(610 posts)davidthegnome
(2,983 posts)Thing is, we really ought to start with the supreme court which gutted the voting rights act. I realize that's not the only problem - we've also got officials responsible for setting these things up that have cut the hell out of everything. To go from 200 polling places to... 60... is absolutely friggin ridiculous, I absolutely suspect fraud.
Still, the problem started with the highest court in the Nation. The highest frigging court in the Nation, participating in voter suppression.
Tom Rinaldo
(22,913 posts)Let's keep this rolling. This is the best chance we've gotten in a long time to force national attention to focus on both voter suppression AND voter roll manipulation. Let's hit a quarter million by Monday!