Voter Suppression Screwed Bernie, and Will Screw Dems in November if Left Unchecked

[GoLeft TV]

America’s Lawyer, Mike Papantonio, appears on RT’s Redacted Tonight with Lee Camp to discuss the voter suppression tactics that have been at play in the past couple of months, and the impact it has had for both the Bernie Sanders campaign and democracy in general.

[onecaliberal]

1. Those who will pretend to care about it get what they deserve for standing idly by when it was

happening for the benefit of their candidate.

[MissDeeds]

5. +1000

[thereismore]

7. "It's not a crime if the president does it." said one disgraced president. Watch out for more of tha

t.

[oldandhappy]

9. yep!!

[Thinkingabout]

2. Voter suppression in the form of caucuses prevents the other voters and the disabled workers.

This is a primary, it is not an election, know the two are different.

[onehandle]

3. Yep. Drive hours to a mob scene vs voting at the church down the street from me?

In a private booth without interference?

I'll take a primary over a caucus, every time.

[floriduck]

4. And since those went to Bernie, it enabled Clintonites to brag about how many more votes

she got than Bernie. You can't have it both ways so which is it? I wish there was never any caucuses. But that's up to each state, not any candidates.

[Amimnoch]

15. It also allows Bernie followers to deny her strong popular lead by abstract.

How about a compromise:

Closed primaries, by popular vote in all states.

In all states, registration as a Democrat doesn't close until 30 days before the Primary.

Nobody who was registered as a Republican during the last Primary may register as a Democrat (prior Democrats, Independents, and 3rd party only)

Super delegates ONLY come into play if no single candidate gets the majority of pledged delegates.

Provisional ballots count automatically unless the board of elections can't prove ineligibility (put the onus on the board of elections to prove it instead of voter).

These provisions don't take effect until after the 2020 election. That way it can't be tied to any benefit to Clinton or any existing/potential candidates.

[appalachiablue]

6. K & R. Saw LEE CAMP & attny. Mike Papantonio discuss this critical issue yesterday.

And it will happen again, big time in the November general election. The voter and election corruption has been evident since 2000 at least. DEMOCRATS have been in power since 2009; what have they done about it, which mainly impacts the formerly known Party of the 'BIG TENT'?

"Redacted Tonight", Fri. Nights 8 PM on RT, rt.com & YouTube. - Host LEE CAMP with guest journalist GREG PALAST.

[oldandhappy]

11. wow Debbie poster needs to be circulated far and wide.

She is a repub.

[shenmue]

22. No

[rhett o rick]

8. While I believe that the Power That Be did manipulate a win for Clinton,

I also believe they will continue to manipulate for Clinton. Goldman-Sachs, Citibank, Wall Street and the Koch Bros are "pulling" for Clinton.

[Jackilope]

10. Yep, thus no condemnation or solutions offered

Loyalty oaths and brow furrowing over Bernie or Bust movement are useless shame tactics that ignore the fix is in. Create an growing smd gigantic outside movement that challenges all the corruption is only way to move ahead.

[msongs]

12. oh no the whole world is against bernie. oh my its a huge conspiracy against only him nt

[mac56]

13. Seriously? That's your takeaway from this?

No concern about voter suppression?

Just another opportunity to mock Sanders?

Joking, I'm sure.

[pnwmom]

20. The problems in NY and AZ were caused by Rethugs and hurt Hillary, too.

In Arizona the county with the reduced polling places was heavily Hispanic, a group hat voted heavily for Hillary.

And in NY there is no evidence that the Rethug, six months ahead of time, was able to target and purge Bernie voters in different buildings across Brooklyn.

[xloadiex]

14. Members of Congress

call for an end of mass voter suppression.


http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/35846-members-of-congress-call-for-end-to-mass-voter-suppression-and-insecure-elections

In 2016 - the first presidential election since the US Supreme Court's gutting of the Voting Rights Act - a slew of new malicious laws and tactics are disenfranchising millions of Americans, even as the private control of US vote-counting technology has come under renewed scrutiny in a primary season marked by allegations of fraud and election rigging.

[pnwmom]

21. Starting with replacing vote-suppressing caucuses with primaries. n/t

[SheenaR]

16. The suppression will not continue in November

Look at states like mine here in RI.... It was the Democrats doing it.

We'll be fine in that regard. The people it has been benefiting will continue to benefit

[TIME TO PANIC]

17. K & R!

[oberliner]

18. Irony of Russia Today airing a segment about voter suppression

Off the charts.

[pnwmom]

19. There is no evidence that it hurt Bernie more than Hillary. And vote-suppressing caucuses

seemed to work in his favor.

[modestybl]

23. Caucuses tend to be more transparent...

...except when Harry Reid has his casino boss buddies flood them with employees that weren't required to register.

AZ was a particularly egregious example that obviously hurt Sanders... same day voting in Maricopa county less than a third of what it was in 2008.

Closed primaries favor the incumbents and the party regulars... open primaries favor people new to the process, younger voters.

But the Dem leadership would prefer to keep their seats safe, even if the Dems are in the minority, than get primaried out and see the Dems in the majority.

Had always wondered why the Dem leadership has been so passive on vote suppression and fraud after the 2000 election - what favors Repubs in the general favors them in the primaries.

[mac56]

24. what favors Repubs in the general favors them in the primaries

Word.

[pnwmom]

25. That's not what people thought after Iowa and Nevada. n/t

[bkkyosemite]

26. It did not work in his favor.

[pnwmom]

28. Caucuses did by depressing turnout of voters who didn't have a lot of time on their hands. n/t

[LiberalLovinLug]

27. The Third Way DNC would hate to get a Dem majority in all levels.

They want an excuse so that they can make weak sauce attempts at financial reform, or protecting social programs, and then throw up their hands and say...."hey we tried". So they have no problem with the GOP making sure they retain at least one even two branches. There can be no other explanation. Otherwise why would they be sitting on their hands since 2000 and doing nothing about provable vulnerabilities in many voting systems.

[DamnYankeeInHouston]

29. So it will come down to who can steal the most. We are screwed.

This is even more heart breaking since we have an exceptional, once-in-a-lifetime candidate.

[RATM435]

30. Good luck in november clintonistas You're going to get your asses handed to you.