Why no voter registration problems among NY Rs?
The NY Republican primary is also closed, and while we know that some R voters - like Trump's kids - didn't know that they needed to change their registration to R back in October to vote in today's NY R primary, we're not hearing the whining that hundreds of NYers registered as Rs had their registration changed to not affiliated.
Why is it that this supposed injustice only affects Ds, and more specifically, Ds who want to vote for Sanders?
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In Florida in 2000 this was clearly the case. Yes, there were sporadic problems in (R) districts, but (D) voters are typically more poor and less educated, (D)-dominated districts are generally less well funded and less well staffed. They tend to have larger populations and so there are simply more things that can go wrong and a larger population for them to go wrong for. There's most of the "problem." You map election problems and district by political affiliation of the BOE or population (they tend to track rather closely) and there's a pretty good correlation, even better when mapping election problems and income or election problems and education level. They all tend to be cross-correlated in fairly uninteresting ways (uninteresting just because there's nothing new or waiting to be explained there; 'uninteresting" does not mean "socially unimportant"
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The (R) voters that would be the most outspoken are Trump voters, and we wouldn't notice or remember them. Since we're not likely to notice them (there have been stories about this, by the way, but we didn't much notice or remember them), of course we tend to think they didn't exist. Haven't seen any such stories about NY Trump voters, though. It's unclear that this benefited Cruz or Kasich or whoever and disadvantaged Trump, because Trump voters are just loud and fighting because of a chip on their collective shoulder.
Even in the Phoenix debacle where the primary voting sites were used by both (R) and (D) the long lines were taken to only affect (D). Perhaps (R) voters were ushered to the front of the lines? No. Some of the locations of long lines were in (R)-dominated areas, but, you know, nobody cared. So nobody noticed. So nobody remembers. Making it an anti-(D) problem. And somehow an anti-Bernie problem, although that claim requires a lot more information to even be made.
Meanwhile, Bernie supporters are loud and insistent. They are fighting for their revolution, and any injustice is to be trumpeted. They're about injustice shown to them as they pursue their degrees or media campaign and feel slighted and just won't take it any more. So when there's a problem, the facile news reports are going to over represent them. Since we notice and remember them, though, they loom large in our thinking. No, there's no actual data for how many HRC vs BS voters complained; nor has there been any response to say what went wrong in individual cases, just claims which, in the absence of data, are believed by default.
Result: Only Bernie voters' being wronged is remembered, and therefore they're the only ones wronged.
