2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumTake this with a grain of salt (NY upcoming primary fight)
confirming reddit threads and all that, but...
A couple of my friends were curious about their voter status because the NY registration deadline is this Friday so they went to make sure they were still registered as Democrats and they WERE NOT!!!! They had voted before as democrats and have been registered as democrats for a while but when they checked their party had either been changed to NO PARTY AFFILIATION or even to REPUBLICAN.
PLEASE DOUBLE CHECK YOUR STATUS ASAP AND MAKE SURE EVERYONE YOU KNOW CHECKS AS WELL!!!!
https://www.reddit.com/r/SandersForPresident/comments/4boc9t/new_york_check_your_voter_registration_few/
Forget who the hell you favor in this campaign ok. The only thing at stake is democracy with a small d ok. And if this is the case, what happened in AZ is just a preview of coming attractions.
Myself, getting the popcorn. Compromised elections are quite a show.
Beowulf
(761 posts)nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)why I said this is democracy with a small d at risk...
Beowulf
(761 posts)For all the talk about this being a change election, and the 99% trying to regain lost ground, I'm beginning to wonder if this election is going to be about corporate power consolidating it's gains.
nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)sadly.
And a lot of the behavior reminds me of truly compromised elections I grew up with. (Mexico)
Beowulf
(761 posts)haikugal
(6,476 posts)cosmicone
(11,014 posts)NY Secretary of State knows which democrats are Bernie supporters and is selectively changing their registration to prevent a Bernie landslide.
One can't make OPs like this up -- they are unique to the Bernie campaign.
nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)by the way, there are many reasons to take this Reddit OP with a grain of salt. but there are several things that could make a voter a target for this.
Gender,
Age
Race
You follow? And all that data is part of the registration data. Of course, Harris did not disenfranchise tens of thousands in Florida either becuase they were on the future felon list either. I just love it how you all have one answer to what should be angering you to no end, REGARDLESS OF WHO YOU VOTE FOR...
A lover of actual democracy you are not.
rhett o rick
(55,981 posts)understand that we peons have been peed on too long. Clinton wants to continue the exploitation of the lower classes to increase her personal wealth and the wealth of her sponsors. Those minions that grovel before her need to understand that those of us that have lost homes, jobs and retirements have nothing left to lose. So frack you and the horse you rode in on.
nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable."
Hydra
(14,459 posts)One of the main planks of our party used to be the right of each person to their one vote. I guess I slept through the 2.0 "upgrade."
nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)but many of the followers don't have any maturity as voters. It is clear to me that they really do not understand the seriousness of this.
What i am seeing is a continuation of what Secretary of State Harris started in Florida. This is voter caging, a new form of it.
Hydra
(14,459 posts)But they wasted no time in capitalizing on it.
I admit I'm too cynical to believe we have a clean election system, but I thought only the GOP were well financed enough to get away with openly crowing about it.
nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)marions ghost
(19,841 posts)voting status mysteriously changed.
Yes people better check into this. Maybe it's nothing. Maybe it's something.
nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)we are seeing caging.
haikugal
(6,476 posts)Dragonfli
(10,622 posts)We have not only been screwed, but well screwed.