2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: In California, we registered thousands and thousands of first-time voters who support Bernie. [View all]JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)It was incredible. I was wearing a Bernie tee shirt and horns were honking and people were yelling Bernie. I'm 73 so it wasn't my beautiful self that was attracting the attention. People stopped their cars and thanked me for being out canvassing. I've done a lot of canvassing and hanging reminders on door knobs in my life. I never experienced anything like today in my neighborhood. Amazing and beautiful
But the election results will not be fully counted for another 21 days because a lot of voters (many Bernie voters I strongly suspect) were given provisional ballots that will not be counted for 21 days.
The frequency with which the provisional ballots were handed out looked very suspicious to me.
I'm hoping it was not blatant voter fraud.
Apparently many names of newly registered voters were not on the polls in the precinct I observed. And decline-to-state registered voters were being given the provisional ballots although they had the right to Democratic ballots as I understand it.
The mess at the polls in a state governed by Democrats and a County led by Democrats makes me want to vote for Hillary even less than before.