Your Handy Guide To Tonight's Primary Results

[Old Crow]

Due to the wonders of modern technology, there is no need to stay up late or wait until morning to find out who's won tonight's Democratic primaries!

Here's how it works: States that use electronic voting with no paper trail will be won by Hillary Clinton. In those states, her win will deviate in her favor from the exit polls, often beyond the margin of error. States that use paper ballots will be won by Bernie Sanders, with results that are consistent with the exit polls.

Ready? Here we go! In alphabetical order:

CONNECTICUT
Voting method: Paper ballot
Result: Sanders winning with 50% reporting

DELAWARE
Voting method: Electronic voting
Result: Clinton winning with 99% reporting

MARYLAND
Voting method: Paper ballot
Result: Clinton winning with 21% reporting (the exception that proves the rule?)

PENNSYLVANIA
Voting method: Mixed: paper ballots/electronic voting
Result: Clinton winning with 48% reporting

RHODE ISLAND
Voting method: Paper ballot
Result: Sanders winning with 91% reporting

For more on the wonders of electronic voting, see the two related posts below.
1. Why Electronic Voting Is a BAD Idea - Computerphile
2. How Paper Balloting Was Sabotaged in America

[felix_numinous]

1. How can we prevent another stolen election?

These bullies have called our bluff, the whole time they planned to steal their way in, and now they are railroading the process through and expect all of us to accept this epic lie. They are that hungry for power. Maybe we have to allow them to steal it, and then take it from there in court.

'Where love rules, there is no will to power, and where power predominates, love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.' Carl Jung

[Old Crow]

2. Alas, I don't have an answer to your question.

It's a difficult challenge because a large part of the American public is not technically literate and, consequently, are unaware of just how easily a programmer can rig an election. On top of this, many don't want to even contemplate election fraud. There is an abundance of evidence that electronic voting has been used, and is being used, to sway elections for at least 16 years, yet most Americans have little interest in the topic. Even here on DU, where people are politically astute, most posts on the topic (including my own) are met with tepid interest, at best.

The more I've learned about the subject, the more I'm convinced that we should adopt the practices of the U.K. when it comes to voting. It's all done on paper and the counting is all done by hand. Sealed bins of ballots are emptied onto open tables that are staffed by members from the opposing parties and handcounted. By design, it's all kept extremely simple, with no automation or technology of any kind. Brilliant.

Below are two videos of votes being counted in the U.K. I hope you enjoy them as much as I do. When I went in to vote today (I live in Pennsylvania), I had to do so on a touchscreen device that has no paper trail whatsoever. I feel the likelihood that my vote was tallied correctly is about 60%--meaning that I think there's a 40% chance my vote was flipped. With no paper trail, no auditing, and no verification, why wouldn't my vote be tampered with?

[felix_numinous]

3. There are certain things that need to be done by hand

and this is one of them. Thanks for being there Old Crow.

[brooklynite]

9. Maybe have Bernie Sanders actually claim there was one?

If he can't be bothered, neither can I.

[Lucinda]

4. You probably should have waited on the results before running with this. :)

[grossproffit]

5. Hillary won Connecticut.

[nolawarlock]

6. So much for this theory. Nt

[NCTraveler]

7. Huffington Post moment. Nt

[LexVegas]

8. ...