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Independent voters could make polling sites a nightmareBy Marisa Schultz April 13, 2016
WASHINGTON New York election officials are bracing for a mess at the polls because they expect many Bernie Sanders voters will show up who cant vote.
Im going to predict that a lot of Sanders people who come from the ranks of independent voters are not actually registered Democrats and they will cause lines and waits at the poll sites while they attempt to vote affidavit ballots or obtain court orders to vote, said John Conklin, a spokesman for the state Board of Elections.
http://nypost.com/2016/04/13/independent-voters-could-make-polling-sites-a-nightmare/
Are independent voters going to cause havoc and disrupt democrats right to vote next week?
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HassleCat
(6,409 posts)Many voters don't understand closed primaries.
CorkySt.Clair
(1,507 posts)workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)and will try to stop the election on purpose.
Its being organized right now I bet.
NorthCarolina
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workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)What part of this don't you understand?
I can't vote for the local Boy Scout leader either cause I'm not in their club! HORRORS!!!
If "independents" had their own nominating process they would not allow ME to pick their candidate either, and rightfully so!
artislife
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workinclasszero
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artislife
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COLGATE4
(14,732 posts)artislife
(9,497 posts)She isn't likable enough for the nation.
COLGATE4
(14,732 posts)any good. She's a hell of a lot more likeable than Trump or Cruz.
artislife
(9,497 posts)and the left has another option to actually vote for the issues that matter to them.
COLGATE4
(14,732 posts)a wasted vote.
artislife
(9,497 posts)You think getting your candidate in is the only goal. It isn't.
NorthCarolina
(11,197 posts)onehandle
(51,122 posts)I do not want them picking our Democratic candidate.
Most lean right. That's a fact. It's also become fashionable to identify as an I. Of course people don't drop their world view when they re-classify themselves that way.
ScreamingMeemie
(68,918 posts)Always have. 10 years ago, people hated me for being moderate on this very site. I still hold the same views, and now, I'm considered a far-left commie. Let that sit there for a minute. I am being sincere here. I'm an Independent who votes wholly Democratic. If I had to register to vote in a closed primary, I would register Democratic. The media's moderate is often DU's Bernie supporter.
Jackilope
(819 posts)People of both parties are angry at what their parties are morphing into. New Democrats or Third Way isn't what I'd brand as Democratic Party.
Phlem
(6,323 posts)Reap what you sow!
polichick
(37,152 posts)ViseGrip
(3,133 posts)northernsouthern
(1,511 posts)Always trying to vote in an election!
Are independent voters going to cause havoc and disrupt democrats right to vote next week?
Are you serious? Holy sh!t how can you in one short distance got from the fact they can not vote to disrupting the right to vote.v
Cali_Democrat
(30,439 posts)The election is in November.
This is a primary to pick a nominee for the DEMOCRATIC party.
northernsouthern
(1,511 posts)This is an election, look at the definition. That is why they call it the primary election. For a group that thinks that a certain word beside corporate has the exact same meaning, you quickly pivot.
You do know states are challenging the closed elections because they are paid for my tax payers...something about taxation and represent something or other? I always forget that line. I had something to do with the US and the east coast...can't recall. I would love to see an article on how so many HRC people are in favor of the closed system, but claim to care about voting rights.
Cali_Democrat
(30,439 posts)northernsouthern
(1,511 posts)Websters
3e : of or relating to a primary election <a primary candidate>
Encyclopædia Britannica
http://www.britannica.com/topic/primary-election
Wikipedia
Primary Election
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primary_election
The US
Primary Election
https://www.fvap.gov/vao/vag/appendix/state-elections
etc...
Kittycat
(10,493 posts)But step aside. You don't count.
As screwed up as IL is, at least we give voters the right to declare until it's time to cast their votes. Anything can happen until then. Voters deserve the right to decide.
northernsouthern
(1,511 posts)I wonder if they can have a case that they are unduly kept from s system they pay for?
COLGATE4
(14,732 posts)government participates in a war that they don't agree with. And the probabilities of success are about the same. As we say in the trade, 'any idiot with $100 can sue'. The trick is winning, not suing.
northernsouthern
(1,511 posts)I know some entities have protection from litigation, but since the DNC and RNC are not quite governmental, they may be more liable. The most depressing thing thus far is finding I agreed with both Utah and Arizona on the state defunding the elections for them not being open. I know they were using that as an excuse, but it was a decent one. I think we are more OK in WA since we allow registration at the door and absentee ballots.
Tierra_y_Libertad
(50,414 posts)I'm all for it.
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)they have no right to tell democrats who their party candidate should be.
Tierra_y_Libertad
(50,414 posts)We don't register by party in my state and anybody can party caucuses. Works well.
northernsouthern
(1,511 posts)I have never seen a group this adamant about not letting voters vote, they should do part time work for the local RNCs, they are always looking for some help in voter repression.
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)Tierra_y_Libertad
(50,414 posts)I find open caucuses a helluva lot more democratic than closed primaries.
Trenzalore
(2,331 posts)Raise money of another false fraud narrative
awake
(3,226 posts)It seem like I keep hearing about long time Dem. Voters who have said that they want to vote for Bernie have found out (or will find out) that someone reregistered them as "independent". It seem the only way Hillary can win is to rig the vote.
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)Or is it all just a story told on the internet?
awake
(3,226 posts)You are welcome to do your own looking.
COLGATE4
(14,732 posts)awake
(3,226 posts)awake
(3,226 posts)Its a law suit
http://www.democraticunderground.com/12511757972
unc70
(6,114 posts)For whatever reasons, there appear to be significant problems with party affiliations being changed that are affecting voters on all sides.
There are always a lot of issues from address changes, precinct changes, clerical errors, and voter mistakes. To this outsider, NY doesn't make it easy to resolve such things.
The voters I think most likely to have issues in NY could be for Trump. I don't see any organized protests by Sanders non-voters as being an issue. I think that is mostly a Clinton campaign scare story.
Sky Masterson
(5,240 posts)Even if you are legally registered correctly because you might be in line with a person who wants to vote but our partys big tent door is zipped closed.
I wonder if winning is so important to some that they would sell their souls and embrace right wing tactics to win than letting people who want to vote and are registered voters, to vote.
I never thought I would see shit like this here.
ScreamingMeemie
(68,918 posts)I know it.
Sky Masterson
(5,240 posts)'Merica.
COLGATE4
(14,732 posts)the snark). If the person next to you is a REGISTERED DEMOCRAT, then (s)he will be able to vote in the DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY. Anyone who is not - INDEPENDENT, REPUBLICAN, GREEN or Undefined won't. Those people will vote in THEIR party's primary. That's not a particularly difficult idea to understand.
Sky Masterson
(5,240 posts)The right-wing tactics are dropping little bullshit articles like this that pretty much are supposed to make people not want to stand in line because of all of these stupid independent voters didn't swap parties fast enough that I won't feel like standing in line.
Truth be known it's just bullshit political fantasy porn for those who are bored and need something to spam.
I understand why the Hillary supporters are mucho concerned right now. It's because they know Hillary does better with democrats and everyone else doesn't much care for her. So I get your concern/outrage.
MAYBE if I do RANDOM CAPITALIZED WORDS that YOU would UNDERstand ME better.
COLGATE4
(14,732 posts)KingFlorez
(12,689 posts)If enough Clinton voters can be blocked from the polls by protesters and doors being blocked, Sanders would actually have a chance. The key to him winning is to keep Clinton voters away from the polls.
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)We will see in a few days I'm sure.
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)Vinca
(50,271 posts)Voters had to change their registration last October to vote on Tuesday. Christmas shopping hadn't even started. It works out well for Hillary, though. Suppress the vote to win. It sounds eerily Republican.
COLGATE4
(14,732 posts)and set the deadline for registering for October 2015 they already knew that Hillary would be the candidate? You are clarivoyant after all.
Vinca
(50,271 posts)That's not clairvoyance, it's fact.
COLGATE4
(14,732 posts)Vinca
(50,271 posts)Retrograde
(10,136 posts)but my Google-fu isn't strong enough to find the relevant court case (I think from the 60s but can't swear to it) that upheld the long lead time.
COLGATE4
(14,732 posts)Buzz Clik
(38,437 posts)Response to workinclasszero (Original post)
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ViseGrip
(3,133 posts)Jitter65
(3,089 posts)It happened in other states already.
DrDan
(20,411 posts)Phlem
(6,323 posts)How dare they screw up the Queen's coronation! They are not worthy!
I know, ya'll can fix it so Independent voters can't vote! You can purge voter rolls, you can close voting establishments, plenty of tricks out their just ask you Republican neighbors.
Fucking pathetic.
JackRiddler
(24,979 posts)Any other pure-fiction scenarios from your New York Post?
COLGATE4
(14,732 posts)I dated one, once.
agracie
(950 posts)workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)Kittycat
(10,493 posts)Again LOL.
In IL we even have same day voter registration. Again, we had problems, but I always viewed NY as more liberal than us. You all suck. Holy crap!
randome
(34,845 posts)They should be treated differently from everyone else.
[hr][font color="blue"][center]I'm always right. When I'm wrong I admit it.
So then I'm right about being wrong.[/center][/font][hr]
Phlem
(6,323 posts)I thought we were the big tent? It seems to me the *Democratic* has changed.
randome
(34,845 posts)If I could vote in a Republican primary, I'd vote for Ted Cruz, the weakest candidate they have. Actually, it's sort of a toss-up as to whether Trump or Cruz is worse. But since pretty much everyone in Congress hates Cruz, I think that would be the safest route.
But I don't get to vote in Republican primaries and I should not be allowed to unless I want to declare myself a Republican. Which I don't want to do.
[hr][font color="blue"][center]I'm always right. When I'm wrong I admit it.
So then I'm right about being wrong.[/center][/font][hr]
Phlem
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Autumn
(45,084 posts)I think that's ass backwards.
CorkySt.Clair
(1,507 posts)Be an informed voter. Are these policies individual states have for voting kept secret?
Autumn
(45,084 posts)Phlem
(6,323 posts)They play shit like that all the fucking time. What did Trump say, "I don't care about rules." And what did a Hillary supporter tell me the other day, "Whatever it takes".
bettyellen
(47,209 posts)That they should demand provisional ballots. This planned disruption inside the polling place will cause voter disenfranchisement of people who cared enough to sort out their shit on time. Sour grapes.
RepubliCON-Watch
(559 posts)Kalidurga
(14,177 posts)Other than that I dunno what to say to people who hadn't made their minds up 6 months ago before all the debates started, I guess they should have known ahead of time they were gonna like Bernie.
bkkyosemite
(5,792 posts)DWS said the Supers are there to STOP any GRASSROOTS candidates. The party is failing the people.
One person one vote is what people want. All those that want to vote for Bernie are not just Independents. They are people who have never voted before now, because they had no reason to until they learned about Bernie and his stances.
The rules were made last year on purpose to discourage any new voters who would not vote for the ptb's choice Hillary. So they have the rules and they have the Supers as back up. It's disgusting and not fair play. The primaries are rigged.
Every person who wants to vote should be able to vote. Bernie would have won if people had known about him more, including those southern red states. Bernie Sanders is running as a democrat and anyone who wants to vote for him should not be shut out. It should be an open primary and same day registration period! This is disenfranchisement at it's highest point. The rules my ass. Everyone has a right to vote for who they want.
The primary's are to make sure only the elite and the ptb get their choice for the nomination. Fairness is not involved nor is a right to vote.
Blue_Adept
(6,399 posts)On Sat Apr 16, 2016, 01:48 PM an alert was sent on the following post:
the sanders mob out to commit voter fraud because they arent smart enough to know how to register nt
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1251&pid=1754057
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Calling Sanders supporters a "mob" intending to commit a crime and too stupid? Yes I think this qualifies for hiding. It is an outrage.
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TMontoya
(369 posts)Are going to illegally block polling places because they were either too lazy or too uninformed of their own states primaries?
morningfog
(18,115 posts)Shutting out would be party supporters is one.