Purged, Hacked, Switched: On Election Fraud Allegations in Hillary Clinton vs Bernie Sanders

[KoKo]

May 12, 2016
Purged, Hacked, Switched: On Election Fraud Allegations in Hillary Clinton vs Bernie Sanders

by Doug Johnson Hatlem--Counter Punch

Antonio Gonzalez of the Southwest Voter Registration Education Project (SVREP) is no stranger to exit polling misses. Gonzalez ran a national exit poll of Latino voters in 2004 that proved more correct than Edison Research’s polling for the National Election Pool, but has defended Edison against claims that they misread the Latina and Latino vote in the Nevada caucuses on the Democratic side in 2016. Last week I asked Gonzalez why exit polls are missing so badly for primaries between former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Senator Bernie Sanders. “The exit polls,” he believes, “were accurate in who actually turned out, in who tried to vote.”

A woman named Chloe (whose personal information is otherwise redacted below) describes registering as a new voter more than a week before New York’s deadline with the Department of Motor Vehicles. In spite of persistent efforts, including a record of more than a dozen calls and emails stretching to page fifteen of Exhibit A in Election Justice USA (EJUSA)’s lawsuit filed in New York City, Chloe still has not been registered as a Democrat.

Included in well over a hundred of pages of similar proofs in the Exhibits, another denied voter named Daniel provided a copy of an email sent by Debbie Wasserman Schultz to registered Democrats on April 19, the day of the New York election, encouraging them to get out and vote. Daniel’s registration was purged or switched in the 24 hours before he tried, and was denied, the right to vote.

While Gonzalez attributes much of the trouble in New York and Arizona to confusion over who was eligible to vote, CounterPunch has reviewed details and supporting evidence from databases of voters wrongly denied the right to vote in closed primary contests between Clinton and Sanders. Three databases with records of over a thousand cases show that would-be voters who followed proper procedures to register as Democrats were disenfranchised – either denied the right to vote or forced to vote provisionally or by affidavit.

For those who did vote provisionally or by affidavit, the vast majority of their votes have not counted. This includes 91,000 uncounted affidavit ballots in New York City alone and 20,000 uncounted provisional ballots in Maricopa County, Arizona. For Arizona, CounterPunch reviewed each individual record in a 151 person database collected and published by the online collective Anonymous. Details of 716 entries in a denied-voter database are summarized in Exhibit I of EJUSA’s New York City lawsuit. The third database includes records from would-be voters experiencing registration problems in a wide variety of states from California (which does not vote until June 7th) to Pennsylvania as well as more than one hundred cases, from counties throughout New York, that have not yet been incorporated into EJUSA’s lawsuits. EJUSA gave us limited access to the databases for verification purposes.

The impacts of registrations denied or switched and of voters improperly purged from voting rolls, even when they followed stated laws and procedures, goes well beyond those 100,000+ uncounted ballots, however. Thousands more voters appear to have been denied ballots altogether or simply stayed home when online State records told them they would not be allowed to have their vote counted. The only available conclusion is that forces supporting the campaign to elect Hillary Clinton were willing to use any means necessary – legal, gray, or flatly illegal – to put down the Bernie Sanders insurgency that threatened to upend Clinton’s coronation as the presumptive Democratic nominee.

CounterPunch has obtained a copy of the lawsuit filed by EJUSA in New York City and the accompanying Exhibits. Together with the databases and emerging story, they paint a picture of a Democratic machine every bit as corrupt as the Tammany bosses of the 1920’s and 1930’s who opposed Franklin Delano Roosevelt at every turn.

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More of long article describing latest findings of Election Tamperings in Arizona and New York:

http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/05/12/purged-hacked-switched-on-election-fraud-allegations-in-hillary-clinton-vs-bernie-sanders/

[tonyt53]

1. Uh, that 126K purged voters in NY would have been a mostly for HRC

Those purged voters were in an area that went about 65% for HRC. Bernie would have lost by more and probably lost at least one delegate if that purge had not happened. Be careful what you wish for.

[KoKo]

2. Election Tampering is Election Tampering and needs to be exposed...

Whether is is Hillary or Bernie who is the victim. We are all the victims when the voting process doesn't work.

[nxylas]

6. I fear this point may be lost on a Hillary supporter

Opposing something because it's morally wrong, rather than basing your position on whether or not it personally benefits HRC, is as alien a concept to most of them as it is to their candidate.

[certainot]

18. bullshit

[merrily]

28. Sorry. Someone replied to me only today, suggesting winning was all that mattered.

[certainot]

30. beating the republican is what matters

and not just losing 4 more years on global warming but going backwards, not to mention 3 or 4 supremes.

[merrily]

32. Nice change of subject. The issue was the primary, not the general.

As far as the Supremes, that is no longer a bargaining chip.

As far as the environment, I don't expect Hillary to do a thing.

[certainot]

43. garbage. voting is voting. suggesting hillary supporters are

okay with voter fraud is bullshit. and the suggestion that she would do it in the primary as some bernie supporters have suggests they are naive, stupid, or rovian trolls

and it is really naive to suggest there is no difference on environment and the supremes.

are you so principled or propagandized by the right and its 25 years of hillary lies that you really believe that?

[merrily]

44. Garbage is denying the difference between the primary and the general, when your

reply to me was about beating Trump. No Democrat beats Trump in a primary.

[bkkyosemite]

56. Every time I have seen HRC supporters here either laughing putting up tin foil hats

or smart ass comments when it is mentioned that proof of vote fraud has happened and is happening. Not even a concern have I seen because it only counts if it's their candidate. They have from the beginning (the DNC) been trying to cheat their way into a Hillary win and to hell with Bernie and millions of his voters!

[certainot]

64. purged hacked and switched? that's republican

those are proven republican tactics that will be ramped up this year by the desperate republican election thieves

if dems suggested cases of push polling by hillary of bernie campaigns or similar tricks then i might believe them but the suggestion by bernie supporters that hillary is messing with machines and voter rolls and is purging hacking and switching is silly and might as well be considered republican style trolling, meant or inadvertent through ignorance.

republican trolling on liberal sites is real

[bkkyosemite]

65. Her number #1 contributor owns the company (and his daughter is on the board)

for the vote machines! Soros!

[certainot]

67. that's good to know actually. it used to be all republicons.

soros is a republicon enemy number 1!

[bkkyosemite]

55. bull shit denial

[bkkyosemite]

54. bull shit and raise you!

[dchill]

77. Snappy rejoinder, bro.

[certainot]

79. not snappy also bro

the biggest political mistake in history, considering the time we've lost on global warming alone, is the left's total ignorance of the right's ability to use 1200 coordinated radio stations to create the made to order constituencies and elect the ignorant sycophants that now make up the new republican party. by ignoring talk radio (like not protesting those stations and the universities that support them), the left has allowed the right to enable, intimidate and fool our reps.

at a cheap $1000/hr x 15hrs/day x 1200 stations, rw talk radio is worth 4.68 BIL$/ year or 390MIL$ /month FREE for coordinated global warming denial, pro republican wall st think tank propaganda, free market deregulation bullshit, swiftboating, and the hate and fear used to get people to vote republican.

as long as the left ignores that $390mil/mo advantage it cannot collectively say it is getting bernie's back. that will be very evident if he gets the nomination.

all the 'principled' liberals who complain about money corrupting politics and media, and corrupt and spineless reps while ignoring that factor are hypocrites.

[dchill]

80. It makes no sense whatsoever to blame Bernie supporters for something Hillary...

has no answer for. All that typing for NOTHING.

[certainot]

81. i can blame trolls and bernie supporters for automatically blaming

hillary for something republicans do routinely. whether hillary of bernie benefit the republicans are ramping up the desperate voter suppression and election thieving techniques they need to win.

there is no evidence hillary dems are using anything outside of hardball political tactics

unless there's proof that primary voters favoring a particular primary candidate are being purged, as opposed to dem candidates in general, automatically blaming clinton for crap likely put in place by republicans long before the dem candidates were even decided, and especially before it could have been known the dem primary was still undecided, serves only the election thieving republicans

[bkkyosemite]

53. It WAS Bernie who is and was the victim.

[lostnfound]

70. NO it is we the voters who were the victims

Not only the ones that didn't get their votes counted, but all who voted for the same candidates as the ones who didn't get their votes counted.
Plus anybody on both sides of the fence who consider a fair election more important than than the outcome.

[Baobab]

75. Agreeed, whoever is removing voters needs to be punished.

nt

[pkdu]

78. Did you even read your own post?..

The only available conclusion is that forces supporting the campaign to elect Hillary Clinton were willing to use any means necessary – legal, gray, or flatly illegal – to put down the Bernie Sanders insurgency that threatened to upend Clinton’s coronation as the presumptive Democratic nominee.


When you post uncorroborated bullshit like that , expect ridicule.

[abelenkpe]

7. Cool, then you support counting those votes right?

[20score]

13. Really? I can't find proof that confirms your talking point.

Are you saying the purged voters come from an area that supported Clinton? Or that the counted votes are what you are using as support?

I hope it's not the latter.

[zeemike]

21. And you know this how?

If the ones purged were Sanders voters then it would explain the 65%
Or do you think they can't tell which are which by their scientific demographics?

[dchill]

76. Maybe they went 65% for HRC BECAUSE the 126,000 purged...

were Bernie Sanders voters. Ever think of that?

[LonePirate]

3. The only available conclusion huh? Clearly no bias in that article.

[chervilant]

5. How can you support a candidate

whose current "lead" is predicated on various types of voter and election fraud?

SMDH...

[LonePirate]

8. I didn't vote for her. Also, her lead is not predicated on fraud.

There has been no evidence proving she is responsible for any alleged fraud. She was not involved in the AZ mess nor the NY mess in Brooklyn which likely hurt her more than Bernie based on results in the area.

The majority of the voting members of the party so far have preferred her. There's nothing fraudulent about that. Please join this fellow Bernie voter in not being a sore loser.

[chervilant]

9. I didn't say

Hi11ary "is responsible for any alleged fraud."

And, I am a Bernie supporter who still does not believe that he is losing. His impact on this nation cannot be diminished, even if the oligarchs who want Hi11ary in office (or Trump, as the case may be) succeed.

[LonePirate]

15. Believe whatever you want. I will stick with reality which is quite clear.

[chervilant]

63. Reality?

[bkkyosemite]

60. A lot of votes of his were lost.

[chervilant]

10. Oh, and P. S. :

Indisputably, Hi11ary cannot directly participate in "alleged" fraud. Even the most naïve among us understand that fact.

However, she surely does carry the stink of dishonesty.

(I still do not understand how ANYONE can support her...)

[merrily]

33. There does not have to be evidence for there to have been fraud. Nor does

she personally have to be involved in fraud for there to have been fraud.

You can deny all the reports from Iowa, Arizona, New York and Massachusetts all day long. That won't mean it didn't happen.

[LonePirate]

37. Where did I say there was no fraud?

I said there was no evidence linking her to it.

I don't rush to convict someone without evidence. Unfortunately, I may be the only Bernie voter who feels this way.

[merrily]

39. There has been plenty evidence of fraud and no one is asking you

to convict anyone, nor can you, unless you get called to a jury.

And, FWIW, I don't believe for a second that you voted for Bernie.

[LonePirate]

40. Well unlike many Bernie voters here, I'm a Dem first and a Bernie voter second.

I know it's impossible for the Bernie fanatics here to believe but some of us place a higher value on the collective party than on a single individual. Then again, the Bernie tent has never been one of inclusiveness.

And I repeat myself, there has been no evidence linking the fraud to her. I never said there was no fraud nor did I say there was no evidence at all. I did say a lot of Bernie voters have rushed to convict Clinton without any evidence. There's no doubt about that.

[merrily]

41. Thanks for providing me with more evidence not to believe you, but I really

had enough anyway.

[LonePirate]

45. Ah, you must be one of those purists. The lack of acceptance of a differing view was a big tip-off.

[merrily]

46. No, I am simply one of those who can see your posts.

[LonePirate]

48. Go read all of my posts. I welcome it.

You will find a lot of posts where I have criticized Bernie's supporters on here because (1) they seem to post outlandish nonsense and (2) I didn't vote for Clinton so I don't pay nearly as much attention to posts from her supporters.

This entire conversation only reinforces the belief about the lack of inclusiveness in the Bernie tent when a Bernie voter is attacked for having different views.

[chervilant]

71. You come across

as a sanctimonious and patronizing individual. Is this your intent?

Furthermore, I find it rather disingenuous of you to assert that Bernie's supporters "seem to post outlandish nonsense." I wonder what's really got your panties in a wad.

[LonePirate]

72. Here is the most recent example of outlandish nonsense.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/12511947460#post1

This poster seemingly has no idea who most, if any, of the supers are.

[Fairgo]

57. Me too! But not for long

This pirate has walked my plank.

[merrily]

58. Is this "a Sicilian message?" Are you saying.....

He now swims with the plankton?

[bkkyosemite]

61. The machine is YUGGGEEE

[bkkyosemite]

59. Votes can be flipped in 60 seconds where it that vidoe hmmm I think her machine

absolutely is not with out interference.

[felix_numinous]

4. Election fraud could get Trump elected

This should concern every single American no matter who you vote for.

[L. Coyote]

11. Someone is busy trying to make liberals think voting is rigged, to suppress their votes only and to

cause divisiveness within the Dem Party, to pit Bernie supporters against the party and turn them off to politics permanently. It is a brilliant plan and is working quite well, if you are Trump. The same plan isn't deployed against the Republicans, so whopever is behind this wants them to keep voting. This operation seem especially focused on Berners becoming disillusioned permanently, long range liberal voter suppression.

[certainot]

20. you got that right. a typical rovian type operation

[L. Coyote]

23. And people fall for their BS faster than for a child discovering the lost secrets of the Maya

from his bedroom in Google Earth using the stars.

http://www.nytimes.com/video/movies/100000003387499/the-fountain.html

[merrily]

34. Oh give it a rest. That same crap has been posted on DU for years and every time it's just

as false as it was the time before.

[pnwmom]

12. There is no big mystery about AZ. Hillary had much stronger support among older voters

who are much more likely to vote absentee -- and therefore not be counted in the exit polls. And the voting problems in Mariposa county would have hurt Hillary more, because it was a largely Latino county and she had her strongest support there.

In NY, they are investigating the purge, but it affected voters across Brooklyn so it wasn't targeted to Bernie voters. All five NYC boroughs including Brooklyn had large majorities for Hillary. So the purge cut into her vote count more than it would have Bernie's, since most of his support was upstate.

[20score]

16. What bullshit. Don't facts matter at all?

Propaganda is a big part of the War on Reality.

http://usuncut.com/politics/arizona-election-fraud-primary/

http://usuncut.com/politics/arizona-election-fraud-primary/

Plus the mayor is investigating.

This voter fraud and surpression has happened in numerous states. How can anyone be okay with this shit, and still pretend to be a good citizen?

[pnwmom]

17. It is a FACT that exit polls in AZ didn't count absentee voters, and older people

are much more likely to vote absentee. So if you don't count many Hillary voters -- because they already voted -- your initial exit polls are going to be off.

[20score]

19. Fraud was proven. I don't care about that little factoid.

It's like saying, well, Alabama went for Bush, to prove there was no cheating in Florida. What you said may be true, I don't care enough to check, because it's irrelevant to the larger story. Fraud was committed.

[pnwmom]

24. What fraud was proven in Arizona? They shouldn't have shut down the polling places,

but it was announced in advance and that didn't constitute fraud. So where was significant fraud?

[20score]

27. Read the article I already posted. Damn!

And there are thousands of other articles on the intertubes.

[merrily]

47. Don't allow your blood pressure to rise.

For just one thing, that poster who bragged to me how easy it is to drive Bernie's supporters off DU.

[20score]

50. Thanks Merrily! I do get too upset, when it

comes to injustices or the the War on Reality, in general.

You rock!

[merrily]

51. Right back at you, 20score!

[merrily]

35. +1.

[SusanLarson]

22. Your option or the reality

Or the reality which is absentee ballots are extremely easy to fraud.

[pnwmom]

26. So are you arguing against absentee ballots? Both Washington and Oregon do all mail-in

ballots for everything. After we vote, we can go online and make sure our ballots got counted, and there have been no concerns raised here about fraud.

[merrily]

36. You are conflating very different kinds of absentee ballots.But, you knew that.

[merrily]

42. Thousands of absentee ballots hand delivered. Who could fake something like that?

[leftinportland]

25. what really hurt Bernie in Arizona

is the lie Hillary told at the debate stating Bernie gave support to the death squads in Central America (specifically El Salvador) and to the militia (minutemen) at our own border.

[pnwmom]

29. Boston Globe: "Bernie was right about Sanders Minuteman Militia Vote."

Boston Globe is the progressive paper in Boston.

https://www.bostonglobe.com/news/politics/2016/03/10/hillary-clinton-was-right-about-bernie-sanders-minuteman-militia-vote-but-sanders-now-denies-intent/O69kcEQSuHpueuVCsxXO4L/story.html

[merrily]

38. I live in Boston. The Globe has lied about Bernie more than once.

The Herald is more to the right than the Globe, yes, but they are both establishment, corporate papers.

[leftinportland]

74. An inconsequential minor amendment to another bill...

According to the Globe the vote was not an indication of Sanders view of the militiamen...yes, Hillary misled the public...

[Kip Humphrey]

14. Here is what enabled massive country-wide Voter-Affiliation-Switching:

PowerProfile®
Voter Registration

ES&S PowerProfile® is a voter registration and election management application that enables election officials to register voters and conduct elections from a central data store. This system allows for both single jurisdictions and states to manage elections from the same interface. Election officials are able to register voters, check eligibility, conduct election activities such as prepare absentee and early voting, recruit election workers, create poll books and rosters, verify petitions, and maintain voter records using a single software solution.

Because PowerProfile is HAVA compliant, it provides unique statewide identifiers to voter records, allows for statewide duplicate checking, and is customizable to meet specific requirements of the customer. PowerProfile also provides individual jurisdictions within a state total control over their voter registration data through role-based access controls. PowerProfile is also scalable and can be deployed for a single county, as well as for an entire state and all counties within that state.
Why Choose PowerProfile and ES&S?

Our People! ES&S’ experience working with government spans over four decades. Through continual development and introduction of innovative elections products, ES&S has emerged as the leading provider of end-to-end, fully integrated voting solutions serving 42 states in the United States. Our team is composed of seasoned experts whose mission is to support our customers’ election processes from start to finish. Access to this experience is a critical component in ensuring your elections run smoothly. Because elections are our sole focus, ES&S provides 24/7 support from election experts located in the United States, dedicated exclusively to voter registration.

Key Features

User-friendly interface designed to facilitate quick and accurate data entry
Real-time comparisons of new and existing registrations against external agencies such as Department of Motor Vehicles, Department of Corrections, and others
Seamless voter record transfers between counties in the same state
Integrated scanning functionality to attach additional image data to voter records, polling places, and petitions
Audit / Activity / Notice logging and reporting
Numerous interfaces for external products such as electronic poll books, ballot-on-demand printing, and electronic ballot delivery
Full absentee tracking from application request through ballot return (including all mail elections)
Robust reporting, with the ability to produce notices/labels/reports and data exports
NCOA (National Change of Address) support
Generation of notices such as ID cards, poll worker notices, and others
Coding Accuracy Support System (CASS) interface allows jurisdictions using it to take advantage of postal discounts for CASS-certified mail
GIS interface allowing bi-directional data exchange between GIS applications and PowerProfile
HAVA and NVRA compliant
Granular security utilizing role-based access controls as well as encryption of data at rest and in-transit
A mobile-friendly web interface allowing voters to look up provisional and absentee ballot status, view sample ballots, and look up precinct and polling location information

SOURCE: http://www.essvote.com/products/14/19/Voter-Registration-Software/powerprofile/

Funded by the GOP congress after 2012 for implementation in time for the 2016 election cycle, this software required states to install ES&S central vote tabulators running GEM$ software with which this new Central electronic voter registration software is integrated.

This is the tool and the means. We are seeing the results unfolding. If this did not scare or concern you when Congress funded it, it should certainly give you pause now since we have extensive evidence across the country at this point of Voter-Affiliation-Switching.

[KoKo]

68. K&R! Important Read for those Not Familiar ....Well Worth the Read...Thanks!

[puffy socks]

31. The only available conclusion is that forces supporting the campaign

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to elect Hillary Clinton were willing to use any means necessary – legal, gray, or flatly illegal – to put down the Bernie Sanders insurgency that threatened to upend Clinton’s coronation as the presumptive Democratic nominee."


IF you're a Bernie supporter it is! Onward! ...to the convention!
We'll flip those super delegates to Bernie like this! , and they'd better flip or else we'll do this!





The desperation is getting pathetic. More sleazy unfounded accusations from the supporters of the campaign that said they despise such tactics and yet has engaged in them over and over.
DNC firewall breach, posting pages in major newspapers saying Hillary died, or Warren endorsed Sanders.
accusations of Hillary rigging the coin toss.
every election was supposedly rigged when Bernie lost!

It's definitely entertaining!

[L. Coyote]

49. The other available conclusions are anything anyone dreams up, apparently.

There is a dirty trickster at work, and we knew who they were well before their new trick became Pin Our Dirty Tricks on Hillary.

It's not entertaining, it is either 1.) how Rovian plutocrats upend the process to install whomever can act like President for them, or 2.) a stealthy plot to make Gorege W. Bush the second worst President in history instead of the very worst.

P.S. You are is written you're as a contraction.

[puffy socks]

62. It's very entertaining.

The constant stream of bull pucky that comes from Sanders supporters is truly ridiculous. I cannot take many of them seriously anymore or the infinite conspiracy theories.
They are the antithesis of the very values they profess to hold.

They are investigating the problem. In NO way can you say who was going to vote for Hillary or Sanders . That's complete speculation and to make the claim is pure hogwash.

I sure am sorry for my spelling error. I shall correct it.

[bkkyosemite]

52. Yep! Bernie should be the nominee not Hillary Clinton.

"100,000+ uncounted ballots, however. Thousands more voters appear to have been denied ballots altogether or simply stayed home when online State records told them they would not be allowed to have their vote counted. The only available conclusion is that forces supporting the campaign to elect Hillary Clinton were willing to use any means necessary – legal, gray, or flatly illegal – to put down the Bernie Sanders insurgency that threatened to upend Clinton’s coronation as the presumptive Democratic nominee.

CounterPunch has obtained a copy of the lawsuit filed by EJUSA in New York City and the accompanying Exhibits. Together with the databases and emerging story, they paint a picture of a Democratic machine every bit as corrupt as the Tammany bosses of the 1920’s and 1930’s who opposed Franklin Delano Roosevelt at every turn."

[silvershadow]

66. K&R. We used to discuss this all the time here, not that long ago. nt

[KoKo]

69. I know...

but it's been longer than we think...as time has flown... 's

After Obama's Campaign and Election we sort of forgot about it... Hard to believe that was 8 years and MORE if you count in Kerry's loss in 2004 when he didn't fight over the voting irregularities that showed up--even though Dem Activists Groups did try to sort/challenge the numbers for that "election."

So pretty much from '04 and on through Kerry and then Obama's run and two terms...there wasn't much discussion about the aging and vulnerable Voting Machines and the past history of Voter Disenfranchisment. But the PTB didn't forget about it. They were working hard..in the background-- encouraged by the lack of follow through by the Voting Rights Activists who had been decimated without Party Support to be able to get any follow through for what they had discovered.

Been a long time for those us who cared about those issues..but, good to see them back on the table. Bernie's whole campaign exposes the Voting Problems..in a NEW WAY that may get another whole movement going by the Millenials who are experiencing it right before their eyes. We pass the baton!

[colsohlibgal]

73. US Elections Are A Joke

Suspect easily hacked voting machines, hodge lodge procedures depending on where you live.

Nonsense restrictions on registration.

Oh and about any state chief official can flip results easily.

Canada and a host of countries now use paper ballots with foolproof security and witnessed counting.

Why people tend to accept our corruptable system is beyond me.