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Related: About this forumSanders’ Camp Reports Fraud in Puerto Rico Presidential Primary
The Sanders' camp internals must be brutal in Puerto Rico, they've started the (phony) fraud narrative a bit early. Keep in mind, Puerto Rico is in financial meltdown, so it's amazing they could afford as much as they did with this primary election. Of course, the Samders campaign could have always donated about $1 million to make sure they had everything in line, but then, they were always losing Puerto Rico so it's easier to just whine as the election draws near:
SAN JUAN – With just hours before the start of the presidential primaries in Puerto Rico, members of Sen. Bernie Sanders’ team accused the leadership of the local Democratic Party of fraud, saying they have hindered the certification process of their voting center officials.
The Hispanic vote director for the campaign of the Vermont senator, Betsy Franceschini, denounced a series of irregularities that her working team faced Friday, while thousands of inmates in the island’s correctional facilities exercised their right to an early ballot.
“Our Bernie Sanders officials were never certified. We had 40 officials we submitted in time for the prisons. Not one of them was certified, while all of theirs [Hillary Clinton’s] went in. Attorney Manny Suárez had to go in order for us to be let in. This is a great fraud,” Franceschini said in a phone interview with Caribbean Business.
In an internal press release that CB obtained Friday morning, a group of Sanders officials claimed that the president of the local Democratic Party, Roberto Prats, and its elections commissioner, Ramón López de Azúa, “are holding back the certifications of Bernie Sanders’ voting center officials.”
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grossproffit
(5,591 posts)beachbum bob
(10,437 posts)Glad Hillary save America from Bernie
Happyhippychick
(8,379 posts)
msongs
(67,413 posts)Ghost Dog
(16,881 posts)1. The 'phoniness' you proclaim: Where's your evidence?
2. You suggest, in this context, $1,000,000 should have been 'donated', cough, in order to, um, avoid such, err, technical problems, ¿to whom, precisely?
skylucy
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Fresh_Start
(11,330 posts)Prats said the list of Sanders’ voting center officials was received Thursday at about 5 p.m., and that he expects the certifications to take place during the afternoon Friday.
WhiteTara
(29,718 posts)anotherproletariat
(1,446 posts)
RandySF
(58,899 posts)SFnomad
(3,473 posts)imagine2015
(2,054 posts)Well, at least they aren't operating like the old Cook County and Chicago Democratic machines that allowed absentee voters to vote.
So what's wrong with that?
Well, those absentee voters were absent because they were dead and buried. But that didn't stop Daley machine operatives from casting votes on their behalf!
Blue Meany
(1,947 posts)shifting votes from Bernie to Hillary at a rate of 18%. This should have triggered a full audit, but the auditors simply changed the totals on the handcounted ballots, so that they wouldn't have to do this. This was reported to the Board of Elections by an election monitoring group that witnessed it, but it was still certified, as is, without an audit. I guess not much has changed.
Demsrule86
(68,586 posts)Bernie and his group have become such whiners...so tired of it.
LoverOfLiberty
(1,438 posts)Sanders supporters claiming fraud on another contest the are losing/have lost.
Who will think of the berners?