That silly "voter fraud" video.
You've probably seen a link to it, it's been making rounds. It's 10 minutes long, and the reason it's this long is to make sure that nobody actually bothers to watch it, because then they might die laughing at the suggestion that "fraud" occurred somewhere in it.
Luckily for you, I watched it, so you can save your 10 minutes.
The video starts with a Bernie person (don't know what the title is) counting votes. Apparently the procedure is, you keep your hand up, and when you get counted, you put it down. She gets to 222 with this method, and then says "and there's a guy at the table" to arrive at a count of 223. Fraud! Breach of protocol!
Now comes the "controversy." There had apparently been a previous count, and the Hillary counter this time around counted newcomers (presumably from O'Malley) and added it to the previous count, while the Bernie counter did a full recount. There was nothing unseemly about this, as evidenced by the fact that she explained this in full view of a Bernie person in some kind of leadership position who understood and didn't raise any objection.
At this point the Bernie count goes up from 223 to 224 because some guy off camera says "you didn't count me". Second breach of protocol! Fraud! Also, the guy who said this seems to be sitting at that table, raising the troubling possibility that he was the same "table guy" who had already raised Bernie's count from 222 to 223. Fraud!
Then comes the part that Bernie fans flip out about. A Bernie person comes up and asks "you didn't just count the new people, you counted everyone, right?" And the Hillary counter answered "yes." What she obviously meant is that "everyone has now been counted." This is also what the other Bernie leadership person, who had been standing there the whole time and heard about the two-part counting process understood, because she nodded in agreement -- everyone was now counted. As did the guy running the whole operation, who was also there the whole time. But Bernie fans insist that this was intentional deception on the part of a sneaky Clinton operative taking direction from Mordor itself.
Then comes the fun part. After blatantly inflating the Bernie vote count by 2 people in violation of protocol, and in full view of the camera, the Bernie counter decides to complain. She's joined by another woman and a beardy Buddy Holly glasses guy. The whole dispute is that the Bernie people want the Hillary people to do a whole new count, that way Hillary supporters who didn't want to stay for another hour wouldn't get their votes counted. Yay democracy!
After a few minutes, the Bernie people finally understood that there was a procedure in place to challenge the results and demand a recount. That was a big step -- for a while it seemed like this piece of information wouldn't be able to penetrate their shield of furiousness. At the end of it all, there were three people missing, people who somehow got lost in the utter chaos, possibly left, there was speculation about a bathroom, who knows. The three votes wouldn't have tipped the election, but undeterred by the pointlessness of it all, a Bernie fan demanded a recount.
The recount motion was met with sighs from the weary crowd. The director asked for a second, and got one, and only one, from a woman whose voice sounded suspiciously like the person who made the motion in the first place. Then, according to procedure, there was a majority vote to determine if there would be a recount, which lost by what appears to be about 95%-5% margin (6:37), with Bernie and Hillary supporters alike not wanting to waste another minute to placate the conspiratorial minds of a handful of Bernie fans.
Enjoy!
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