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Bernie Sanders: Expose the Election Fraud, Get EXIT POLLSTERS On Ground in New York (Original Post) Gregorian Apr 2016 OP
K&R..... daleanime Apr 2016 #1
Conspiracy! DanTex Apr 2016 #2
+1 Buzz Clik Apr 2016 #3
squirrel, bridge, beachfront questionseverything Apr 2016 #6
She's a little cray cray... LuvLoogie Apr 2016 #4
i fully support bernie people doing exit polls questionseverything Apr 2016 #5
oddly enough it's only fraud when he loses. when he wins. clean as a whistle nt msongs Apr 2016 #7

questionseverything

(9,662 posts)
5. i fully support bernie people doing exit polls
Tue Apr 5, 2016, 02:01 PM
Apr 2016

i want a transparent voting system from beginning to end but

what this gal calls for is easier said than done

different states have different recount laws, as we saw in wisconsin during the supreme court recount, there are many ways to avoid transparency with a recount

http://www.bradblog.com/?p=8507

Three bags of ballots from a precinct in Oconomowoc (oh-CON-eh-meh-walk) have been identified as having no serial number on their bag labels.
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Waukesha County officials discovered that all three ballot bags from a precinct consisting of wards 4, 5, 6, 14 and 22 in Oconomowoc had nothing written on the bag labels.
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The municipal clerk from that area (not the County Clerk) was asked if she had an explanation. She said she had none.
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This makes 8 bags of ballots so far in Waukesha County with serious "chain of custody" breaches.

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another snip...

On this score, the G.A.B.'s reporting has been a mess.

The failures started from the very first day, when numbers were released by the G.A.B. in a spreadsheet that didn't add up at all in some 25 different rows (each one representing a "counting unit," usually made up of several different wards in one municipality in Wisconsin.)

For example, in this April 27 spreadsheet [XLS], row 74, representing the Town of Sumner (Wards 1 & 2) in Barron County, shows 653 votes cast as counted during the "recount," but just 145 votes were reported from that "counting unit" in the original post-election canvas.

Unless 508 votes showed up out of nowhere in those two wards, it's likely there was a mistake in record keeping by the G.A.B. somewhere. There were similar anomalies seen in another 15 or 20 rows that day.

The next day, the G.A.B. explained cryptically on its website:
The updated spreadsheet that was posted late Wednesday was removed from this page early Thursday when we discovered some data entry errors. Some errors occurred in transferring information from clerk e-mails to the spreadsheet, and some were due to typos by clerks. We have been working today to ensure that the data we post is as accurate as possible. Please keep in mind that these are unofficial numbers.

For several days thereafter, results spreadsheets were posted with, instead of 3603 rows (one for each "reporting unit" in the state, plus one header line), just 53 rows, or perhaps a hundred or two hundred.

Of course, this made it nearly impossible for those trying to oversee the "recount" to track the updated numbers and changes in vote totals, since one could not easily compare numbers on one spreadsheet against another. The same rows represented completely different "reporting units" in each sheet.

As we said when we began here, Wisconsin is no Minnesota.

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what i am trying to say is, we can't blame bernie for something that has been going on forever and a day

give up? no

count ourselves? yes

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