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In reply to the discussion: 'It was just chaos': Broken machines, incomplete voter rolls leave some wondering whether their ball [View all]JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)59. I helped register voters for Bernie. We educated them carefully.
But lots of the Bernie voters are young and new to voting.
Hillary voters tend to be more experienced and older.
A big problem is the fact that there were so many, many new registrations. The lists simply were not fully updated. People with a smart phone could look up the actual status of the new registrations, but the poll workers' lists did not reflect that actual status in many situations.
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'It was just chaos': Broken machines, incomplete voter rolls leave some wondering whether their ball [View all]
ThinkCritically
Jun 2016
OP
Only the ballots connected with people who met the deadline for being registered
pnwmom
Jun 2016
#52
Welp, the corporatocracy gets what the corporatocracy wants (and paid for).
Snarkoleptic
Jun 2016
#13
Per Steve Kornacki, of all the independents who requested a mail ballot, 15% got a Dem ballot.
hedda_foil
Jun 2016
#21
I had no such experience voting for Bernie in a rather GOP county of California.. NT
vkkv
Jun 2016
#64
How odd that THIS is the primary where our elections look like third world countries.
cui bono
Jun 2016
#92