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Related: About this forumCan someone advise us as to what the excuse will be when Clinton wins VI tonight?
Admittedly, it is a Southern territory...
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Can someone advise us as to what the excuse will be when Clinton wins VI tonight? (Original Post)
brooklynite
Jun 2016
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Happyhippychick
(8,379 posts)1. Voter suppression? Rigged system?
moriah
(8,311 posts)2. I'm sure they don't handcount the ballots, or if they do the people counting have...
... been subverted by making donations to the Clinton Foundation for the job of poll worker.
NCTraveler
(30,481 posts)3. .
dlwickham
(3,316 posts)4. the voters are the wrong color?
Godhumor
(6,437 posts)5. Considering 76% of the Virgin Islands' population is black
I'm hoping the result is accepted and we simply move on. Any kind of complaint is just not going to look good.
Orsino
(37,428 posts)6. That most voters cast ballots for Establishment candidates?
That hunger for change is what leads them to do otherwise? That Establishment parties exist in part to corral voters?