Colorado Democrats admit mistake that cost Bernie Sanders key delegate
Source: Denver Post
Colorado Democrats admit mistake that cost Bernie Sanders key delegate
Denver Post uncovers that Democratic Party told Hillary Clinton's campaign about caucus counting mistake, but kept public and Bernie Sanders camp in the dark
By John Frank
The Denver Post
Bernie Sanders won one more delegate in Colorado than first projected after the Colorado Democratic Party admitted this week that it misreported the March 1 caucus results from 10 precinct locations.
The error — first uncovered by The Denver Post — was shared with rival Hillary Clinton's campaign by party officials but kept from Sanders until the Post told his staff Monday night.
The mistake is a minor shift with major implications. The new projection now shows the Vermont senator winning 39 delegates in Colorado, compared to 27 for Clinton.
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Read more: http://www.denverpost.com/election/ci_29755029/colorado-democrats-admit-mistake-that-cost-bernie-sanders
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my own comments follow:
Here is another little snip from the article (I only put in 3 sentences above):
{snip}The state party's website reported March 1 that Sanders won 14,624 votes, or 54 percent, in Denver County and Clinton took 12,097 votes, or 45 percent. But the corrected numbers for Denver County give Sanders 15,194 votes, or 56.5 percent, and Clinton with 11,527, or 43 percent, according to official party results.
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So look at those numbers, the Dem Party spokesman is spinning it that someone "dialed in" or "transposed" the wrong numbers, but put them correctly on the paper sheets, which no one looked at until a week later.
Uh, no. That is NOT how someone fat-fingers or transposes numbers when punching them in a computer. or on a phone.
That is an exact shift of 570 votes for each vote tally. That means someone did some calculations, for it to happen to both figures by the exact same figure.
But they informed the Clinton campaign FIVE WEEKS AGO, so obviously the Colo Dem Party DID look at the original papers at some point, did find the error at some point (five weeks ago), and YET...
they did NOT correct the error on the website, nor in time for for the Denver County Convention held on March 26 nor informed the Sanders campaign before the Congressional District 1 held on April 9.
I also have another story (beyond my caucus night debacle) of another disenfranchisement (by mistake not intent) where Sanders lost 12 county level delegates going into CD1, but that is a write up for a whole other post, and it is obviously from the turnout of delegates that the Credentials Committee worked in the background to seat as many Sanders delegates as possible in the background with a Convention credential (including YOURS TRULY, so I was finally able to represent Bernie for a second time as a delegate) for the CD1 assembly -- likely to correct their multiple errors on caucus night and Denver County Convention.
But let's recap:
Apparently and admittedly by the spokesperson, the Colo Dem Party knew about the mistake one week after the Caucus.
And the Colo Dem Party did not correct the error on the website, inform the media, nor inform the Sanders campaign.
You can bet the National DNC knew about the error, but did not correct the error, nor inform the Sanders campaign.
And the Clinton Campaign knew, but the Clinton campaign did not correct the error, nor inform the Sanders campaign.
The buck absolutely stops with the candidate in the campaign, so Sec Hillary Clinton didn't correct it either.
The Sanders campaign was NOT informed of the error, and so couldn't insist on correcting the error either.
But the Sanders delegates still turned up to effectively correct it themselves, back to the original (unreported) percentages.
On April 9 (I was there) the Congressional District 1 delegates voted:
392 Sanders - 58.6%
276 Clinton - 41.6%
Congressional District 1 sends 8 delegates to the National Convention - 4 women and 4 men.
They broke out as such
5 delegates Sanders (3 women, 2 men)
3 delegates Clinton (1 woman, 2 men)
I believe there is a term for when two or three people or more communicate and work in secret together against a third person's best interests...
P.S. I was also at the Denver County Convention, where Congresswoman Diana DeGette -- A SUPERDELEGATE -- informed a very Pro-Sanders crowd with the last extremely exuberant line in her rousing speech was that she would "NOT overturn your votes at the National Convention!" (meaning CD1's votes, which have to be crystal clear from April 9 to be for Sanders (see above). I'm not sure why her implied switch isn't reported anywhere else, but the whole thing is probably on video somewhere, and maybe she was intentionally vague, but she is supposed to be supporting Sanders as a SUPERDELEGATE now after the CD1 results.
Interestly enough, Diana is being primaried by a geologist/climate activist named Chuck Norris, who has a not so surprising amount of support considering the environmentalism in Colo on both the right and left sides of the aisle here, and received enough support above the threshold that he will be on Primary ballot in June against Diana DeGette. (That will be a primary not a caucus). Norris has so much support even, that (I'm sure this is unrelated LOL), our Diana has been seen at events and in the District more times in the last 3 weeks than we've seen her in the last 8 years LOL.
on edit: P.P.S. I just want to add that I believe that it is mostly likely the Credentials Committee learned about this late in the process and are the ones who are the heroes here. I mean, I am surprised the Denver Post even has the story, somebody is doing the right thing.
on edit: P.P.P.S The mistake *IS* fixed now. CD1 is sending 5 for Sanders, 3 for Clinton, and not the 4-4 like it was from caucus night.
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Willfully ignorant or stupid to buy that crap
They really need to try and grasp that point
Wow. Way to stand on principles.
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[font color="navy" face="Verdana"]Someone I admire immensely begs to differ.
and you simply CAN'T HELP realizing that Bernie's the FDR for our time. 
[font color="navy" face="Verdana"]Bernie will go down as one of the best, most important, most transformational presidents in history. The time is right - and it's now.
[font color="purple"]Feelin' The Bern!
OK, that is a joke. I, and probably everybody else on DU who cares, are banned from the Hillary group. We wouldn't want to contaminate their pure thoughts with challenging information.
by CHEATING us!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 
The notion that we don't have to worry if our guy get's elected is dated as well.
I think recent political events prove that we must be forever vigilant if we want a fair functioning Democracy.
Thieves usually steal shit in the dark, while you're asleep.
Thirdway (Corporate) Democrats are actually challenging the old guard Republicans to see who can funnel the money up to Corporate and the 1% fastest.
It's a shameful fricking sport now.
Money is the new God, people......meh
If he want's to be successful (and I say this as a huge supporter), a whole lot of people need to sign up and start voting Independant ASAP, otherwise the money machine will just roll over him.
ENOUGH IS ENOUGH. 
Rethuglicans are just STUPID. What WE'RE dealing with is EVIL. 
