Something Is Going Seriously Wrong with New York Voter Registrations

[berniepdx420]

New York’s Democratic primary is starting to look an awful lot like the Arizona primary.

Hundreds of voters, most of them registered with the Democratic Party, are filing a class-action lawsuit against the New York State Board of Elections on Monday morning, claiming their voter registration was changed to “independent” or “no affiliation” without their consent.

In closed primary states like New York, voters who are not registered as Democrats or Republicans can’t vote in those primaries. Voters identifying as independents wishing to vote in the Democratic primary had to change their registration to Democrat by October of 2015 — the earliest registration deadline in the country.

This is almost exactly what happened in Arizona, when voters who had been eager to vote in the Democratic primary learned upon arrival to their designated polling place that their registration had been changed, making them ineligible to vote. In conducting their own investigation of what exactly happened in Arizona, hacktivist collective Anonymous discovered that Arizona kept voter information on an SQL database, which is so easy to hack a 3-year-old can do it. In fact, a white hat hacker discovered a database of 191 million voter registrations last year, which may mean that other, more nefarious hackers have accessed that information as well.

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http://usuncut.com/politics/something-amiss-new-york/

[senz]

1. I thought voter suppression was a Republican tactic.

Not any longer?

[Betty Karlson]

3. Debbie learned a thing or two from her close friends... eom

[CorporatistNation]

8. EXCELLENT THEY FILED CLASS ACTION... BEFORE THE ELECTION!

LET'S SEE WHAT HAPPENS... CORRUPT JUDICIARY LIKELY WILL DO ZERO!

[lagomorph777]

17. Sure it is, but the only Republican in the race is HRC

The GOP themselves have a couple of crazies who the GOP hates; I think that makes them non-Republican.

[merrily]

30. Years ago, I asked bradblog if both large parties do it. His answer was

a very emphatic yes.

IOW, this is not new. It may be more blatant and larger scale but not new.

In the Presidential election of 2000, Democrats cried foul. Fair enough.

In the Presidential of 2004, they also cried foul. Fair enough?

In any event, a Party that believed it had had the WH stolen from it twice in a row would have done what in 2007, when they took back both houses of Congress?

Have Waxman hold hearings, which hearings proved elections were easy to steal? Yes! That's exactly what Dems did!

And right after they established elections were easy to steal, they got very busy doing absolutely nothing about it.

[senz]

35. ...

Three things:

1) It's great to see you, merrily. I've missed you.

2) I need time to absorb and adjust to what you're saying. It's not easy giving up one's cherished illusions.

3) I gotta my tax returns in the mail now. So, xxx ooo,

[MFM008]

2. This always seems to happen

When Sanders MIGHT LOSE the contest.
Voter fraud!

[99Forever]

4. It's called ELECTION fraud...

... it's just those that do it that call it "voter fraud" which is actually almost non-existent.

Cheating cheaters gotta cheat.

[Kokonoe]

5. Its called election fraud. nt

[berniepdx420]

16. your allegiance blinds you and our Democracy suffers.. to dismiss out of hand such a large number of

complaints is just plain stupid

[workinclasszero]

19. ALWAYS HAPPENS!

Looks like Bernie might lose...VOTE FRAUD!!!!!!

Its sooooo transparent what these people are up to!

Cry wolf one more time Bernie fans!

[daleanime]

29. Even if we win, it's a problem that needs to be fixed....

whereas if we lose, it's something else for you to ignore.

[lagomorph777]

20. "Voter Fraud" is a GOP term

...invented to describe a practically nonexistent phenomenon. Normally only Republicans use the term.

[merrily]

31. Or when he might win.

[Scuba]

6. Get real lefties. Unicorns, rainbows and fair elections are pipe dreams.

[berniepdx420]

15. Oh you mean us lefties.. that if your corporate shill of an candidate wins the nomination.. you mean

us lefties that she needs to even come close to being elected... thats it egg us on... smart stuff

[Smarmie Doofus]

7. Relevant thread in NYS Forum:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1068&pid=21849

[Jitter65]

9. Probably people who changed their affiliation after the cut off date.

It is Ariz all over again. Bernie supporters rushing the polls and checking registration that didn't the rules. We know how that goes.

[berniepdx420]

12. Is that the fantasy that helps you sleep at night.. you haven't added much of substance here...

head ... sand .. your allegiance blinds you

[vintx]

23. Wrong. Try thinking first, then replying

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1068&pid=21849

[Tarc]

10. Largely millennials who didn't check the rules

[berniepdx420]

11. such a convenient answer... your allegiance blinds you and our Democracy suffers for it...great !

[Tarc]

13. Or in reality-land, Clinton simply garners more votes than Sanders in a primary

I know the day isn't complete until Camp Sanders finds 18 YUUUUGE conspiracy theories, though, so go tucker yourself out...

[vintx]

24. Wrong. What is it with Hillary supporters and blinders?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1068&pid=21849

[Tarc]

43. The bullshit factor is pretty high on that tale

[KingFlorez]

14. I don't think these people are telling the truth

They were registered as independent, didn't change before the deadline and now are claiming that their registration was mysteriously changed.

[berniepdx420]

18. Oh thanks Dick Tracy.. So can we see the evidence you found in Discovery.. since in sounds like

you all ready toook this through our Judicial system.. Never mind folks the King...KingFlorez already decided for us.. all hail the King cause he stands for the Queen.. Queen hillary.. nothing to see here ...move on.

[KingFlorez]

22. We've heard this story before

Every time Sanders loses, it's because of fraud.

[berniepdx420]

25. again... your allegiance blinds you ... you are unable to think past it.. to be curious and

thoughtful.. to dismiss it out of hand without being concerned that the cyber security being used to safeguard our Democracy is incredibly insufficient.. it's so much easier to dismiss it out of hand as long as it supports your end game... it's a very dangerous slippery slope you are skating on..

[KingFlorez]

33. Uhm, no

Registrations would have to be changed by staff in the offices of county clerks, which suggests quite a lot of collusion that really is conspiracy level crazy. Besides that, how would they know which registrations to change? Registration closed months ago before anyone thought New York would even be a race. Unless there were psychics involved in this scheme, it would be hard to predict which voters were going to vote in the primary and how they were going to vote.

[berniepdx420]

34. So so wrong.. you have heard of hacking .. ??? allegiance is blinding you

[KingFlorez]

36. How would these "hackers" know which registrations to change?

Did The Psychic Friends Network give them instructions?

[berniepdx420]

37. It's obvious you don't have a grasp on the age of Data.. lots and lots of data

[NorthCarolina]

21. Who didn't see that coming?

There will be tons of absentee ballots all for Hillary flooding in to the polls as well.

This is not going to turn out well.

[senz]

26. How come the only ones who defend voter suppression are HRC supporters?

No one knows for sure what's causing these problems, but those who want to get to the bottom of it are Bernie supporters and those who sneer and say "move along, nothing to see here" are HRC supporters.

In the larger world outside DU, it's the Dems who care about voter suppression and the Republicans who don't want us to examine it.

This is very interesting ...

[polichick]

28. Because, like the Republicans, the Clintons are corrupt and their followers know it.

[senz]

32. Yes, I'm finally beginning to see that her followers

do in fact subscribe to her, imo, utter lack of morality. I used to think they couldn't let themselves see it, but now it's becoming clear that they share in it.

It's really an ugly thing to come to terms with.

[seabeyond]

38. How come the only ones who had party change are Sanders? What, they know what a Sanders registration

looks like?

[PeoViejo]

27. Leave the db unprotected

....giving possible plausible denial for Camp Hillary.

[randome]

39. Let's see, hundreds is how much a percent of millions?

Weird. My calculator says this: EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE.

Wonder what that means?
[hr][font color="blue"][center]The truth doesn’t always set you free.
Sometimes it builds a bigger cage around the one you’re already in.[/center][/font][hr]

[berniepdx420]

40. your hillarious... following your logic ..polls don't mean a thing either.. they only poll btwn

500 & 2000 folks... allegiance blinds you and our democracy suffers

[randome]

41. Please. According to the article, Democrats are not the only party affected.

There is a class-action lawsuit about it. So it clearly makes sense to imply that dark forces are at work.

Out of millions of registered voters, a few hundred are experiencing problems. It happens every single election. It's inevitable.
[hr][font color="blue"][center]The truth doesn’t always set you free.
Sometimes it builds a bigger cage around the one you’re already in.[/center][/font][hr]

[LongTomH]

42. When I phonebank to NY for Bernie, I ask people if they checked their registration.

Most of them have, so people are hearing about this.