Only Voter Suppression Can Stop Bernie Sanders

[BigBearJohn]

The most popular politician in the country is up against all three facets of the American political power structure, and he’s already defeated two of them.

After weeks of inspiration and joy, there was anger and sadness this past week in the Bernie Sanders movement. After historic rallies throughout the state, Hillary Clinton’s apparent victory in New York left millions in the movement wondering whether it was the corporate media or the Democratic National Committee that was screwing them over. There’s plenty of blame to go around, but it’s a third culprit who deserves their scorn.

Yes, the DNC has actively worked to rig this primary for Hillary Clinton, by minimizing and delaying the debates, by counting superdelegates as if they vote before July’s convention, and by surreptitiously funneling money to her campaign that was solicited for down-ticket candidates.

Yes, there have also been countless instances of blatant propaganda in the corporate media, most galling perhaps the ones appearing daily in the New York Times and NPR  —  the so-called “N-axis”  - - where many thoughtful urban Democrats get their news. So tendentious has Paul Krugman become, for instance, one can only assume he’s angling for a position in a Hillary Clinton cabinet.

But the Bernie movement has it’s own sources of news, thanks to the Internet you’re using right now, and the campaign has its own sources of funds, too, thanks to the number 27.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tony-brasunas/only-voter-suppression-can-stop-bernie-sanders_b_9780128.html

[bkkyosemite]

1. And flipping votes on machines.

[LiberalArkie]

2. K&R

This variance of 10-11 percent between the exit polls and the recorded vote totals is way outside the margin of error. Mathematical analysis of this variance reveals that the probability of this happening by chance is 1:123,000. Which is to say, essentially impossible. We’re either dealing with one of the very few instances where exit polls are way off, or we’re dealing with election fraud.

It might count as heresy, but I’m going to ask: Why do we assume the voting machines in New York City are honest?

My friends, the emperor has no clothes. There must be a manual recount of 5 percent of paper ballots in New York City to determine the truth. A well-researched piece suggests Bernie really might have won New York, and there are already anecdotal cases where voters tried to vote for Bernie Sanders on the electronic voting machines in Brooklyn, but the machine wouldn’t record their vote until they chose Hillary Clinton. I hope to be proven wrong, but I suspect that we will find the same type of fraud that was just uncovered in Chicago.

[senz]

3. HAVE YOU SEEN THIS? Please take a look!

https://electionfraud2016.wordpress.com/

[LiberalArkie]

4. Wonderful algorithms.

[Helga Scow Stern]

5. Thanks for posting! N/t

[AntiBank]

6. I have watched in horror since 2000 at voter suppression and outright election fraud becoming

so common and so pervasive, so institutionalised, so embedded that I highly doubt there will ever be an somewhat non-rigged primary or general election again. The people running the show have so many hyper-sophisticated methodologies and attack schemata at so many multivariate levels it would take years of hearings just to clean up the mess from ONE election.

I knew the fix was in when I saw the fraud in Iowa, then gave up all hope of a clean season when I saw Arizona's MASSIVE decrease in polling places. This doesn't even count the tens of thousands of Democrats in NY who had their party affiliation mysteriously switched.

I had to laugh (albeit with no true humour and all due bitterness) whenever I saw pundits bemoan the fact that a "moderate" Republican was not going to be an option in the 2016 general election, as there assuredly will be one, HRC. I have railed for years on the sham 2 party system of the US, and have enjoyed living in a proportional representation democratic socialist nation (Sweden) for a decade plus, but will soon be back in the States due to business reasons. I cannot say I am enthused.