California Primary - A Case of Highway Robbery
Yes, Virginia, elections are stolen, and it isn't just the Republicans who do it. It is a bi-partisan effort. Yesterday, hundreds of thousands of voters in California were disenfranchised. Let's review the evidence shall we, beginning with this report in the LA Times, "'It was just chaos': Broken machines, incomplete voter rolls leave some wondering whether their ballots will count":
California voters faced a tough time at the polls Tuesday, with many voters saying they have encountered broken machines, polling sites that opened late and incomplete voter rolls, particularly in Los Angeles County.
The result? Instead of a quick in-and-out vote, many California voters were handed the dreaded pink provisional ballot — which takes longer to fill out, longer for election officials to verify and which tends to leave voters wondering whether their votes will be counted. [...]
It’s difficult to get a sense for how widespread the problems are or how they compare to recent elections. But experts said the culprit for Tuesday’s voting problems seems to be a confluence of factors — old voting machines, a competitive election that has drawn new voters, plus complex state voting laws that can be hard for poll volunteers and voters to follow. [...]
When Sanders supporter Brandon Silverman, 29, showed up at his polling station in Echo Park at 8:15 a.m., he said poll workers immediately handed him a provisional ballot, explaining that their machine wasn’t working yet. The full list of voters’ names for the precincts also seemed to be missing.
Now for a few screenshots of voters in California telling us went they witnessed:
That doesn't sound good, does it. But wait, here is more:
What happened when my cousin @brandollars tried to vote: broken machine, 62 pages of voter roll missing #PrimaryDay pic.twitter.com/oFXbt4i3Wm
— Laura Silverman (@LJSilverman1) June 7, 2016
On social media, many California voters reported showing up to their polling sites only to find that their names were not listed on the voting rolls, leaving them to cast a provisional ballot.
Sanders supporter Jonathan Daniel Brown accused Democrats of “purging votes” when he discovered he was not on the voting rolls at his polling station despite being registered.
Incomplete voter rolls. Voter purges. People's names missing. Broken machines. Provisional ballots being forced on voters. Where have I heard this story before? Oh yes, in Ohio, Election Day, 2004.
I saw or heard about from my fellow [Election Protection] volunteers that day: the long lines, the broken machines, the refusal of the BOE to respond, outrageous election challenges by GOP operatives, cars with bullhorns cruising minority neighborhoods warning people that police would arrest people who owed past due child care or parking tickets, names purged from voting rolls, last minute changes to polling places, refusals to hand our provisional ballots ...
Nice to see the Democratic Party has caught up to the GOP on how to win elections, at least for the "chosen one."
Of course the election officials had their ready made excuses. They always do. But I don't believe any of the ones I saw in the LA Times' report that were offered. So what did yesterday's vote mean?
Writer Allison Bloom, 41, took her kids with her when she went to vote at the Kahal Joseph Congregation synagogue in Westwood on Tuesday morning.
“I wanted to show them what voting means,” Bloom said. But when she arrived, she said workers couldn’t boot up the vote-counting machine. Bloom left behind her ballot, with a worker promising it would be counted.
Bloom said her kids asked, “Is this what it’s always like?”
“It was just chaos,” Bloom said. “It was kind of an unfortunate first experience at the polls for them.”
Yeah, it is "kind of unfortunate" we live in a sham democracy. But hey, at least dead people still get to vote. Zombie nation must be very happy their ballots get counted.
For a rundown on the pre-election shenanigans in California check out this article at Heavy.com from May 28th. And this is a nice summary of how "both parties do it" at Consortium News. As for me, I agree with Election Fraud Watch 2016: this wasn't an election, it was a coup.
But hey, we will get over it right? I'm sure we will unite behind Hillary. By the way, expect a lot of this coming to your TV and radio soon: FEAR THE TRUMP!!! FEAR THE TRUMP!!!
I can hear it now.
I'll let you be the judge on how effective a campaign slogan that will be.
Comments
What's the common element?
hrc is running for POTUS so cheating has to exist for her to "win." The Clinton-mafia reaches far and wide. Almost every state where Bernie was scheduled to win has had voting problems. So interesting, yet so predictable considering the common element factor.
"The “jumpers” reminded us that one day we will all face only one choice and that is how we will die, not how we will live." Chris Hedges on 9/11
Agree RA, and also dissapointed in Sanders campaign
It was KNOWN some needed to ASK FOR A CROSSOVER BALLOT - why wasn't that mentioned constantly, at every one of those HUGE events, in emails from the campaign, in social media, friendly news.
Not only Clintons to blame, tho' fighting people that corrupt is a tough one ;(
I ran canvasses for the campaign
every week. The "NPP ballot problem" was high on he list of topics for me to train canvassers on. It came up repeatedly during barnstorms and was reinforced repeatedly. It was such a big issue that part of the training was to instruct canvassers to try to convince NPP voters to register Democratic. I personally discussed with at least a dozen NPP voters what they had to do.
So, I don't know if it was just that the field organizer in my CD was really on the ball or what, but at least as far as my contact with the campaign went this issue was aggressively and thoroughly discussed at every turn.
The Sanders' campaign DID send
out tons of emails regarding CA and other states with known issues. They also had constant notices on FB and Twitter, including on the days of the primaries. He provided a hot line for people who ran into problems. He did mention some things in his speeches. He could NOT come out and say that the Democrats/HRC were stealing the vote. Even when he made a mild comment, the press was all over it with the "sore loser" meme.
Expect more of the same in November. Many dictators have been "elected," and we have always kind of laughed off those sham election and felt oh so superior.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.--Aristotle
If there is no struggle there is no progress.--Frederick Douglass
He knows as well as we do
that votes were stolen. It's been rampant the entire primary season in multiple states. The DNC has proved to be more corrupt than the RNC. Who knew!!!???!!!
"The “jumpers” reminded us that one day we will all face only one choice and that is how we will die, not how we will live." Chris Hedges on 9/11
Yes, he has been fully aware of
what has happened. He also knows that the repercussions of his making too big an issue during the primaries would result in him not being able to get his message out and reach as many people as possible.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.--Aristotle
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Precisely! eom
"The “jumpers” reminded us that one day we will all face only one choice and that is how we will die, not how we will live." Chris Hedges on 9/11
Who knew
Many, many years ago when my Midwestern state was still using tank-like, Army green voting machines that weighed beyond belief, Democrats, real organizational Democrats taught me how to "fix" the voting machine. They've always known. It was taught under the guise of preventing the other side from doing it but when those same machines were used for intra-party disputes, those same strategies were used. The problems with electronic voting are the same. This reminds me so much of Ohio in 2004.
cinnamon68
Thinking towards the future .
Thinking towards the future ... I feel like this is the sort of thing that should be mentioned by the candidates in their stump speeches (unless of course it's already being done but I'm not aware of that being the case). It's not exactly traditional stump speech material but if it helps voters know their rights and the process in their state I don't see how anyone can criticize it.
Weave it into stump speech
seems the most sensible thing to do.
Not to "accuse" anyone - but to CAUTION voters. Such as the need to ASK for crossover ballot.
Also, have those volunteers outside, at legal distance from polling place, with a HAND OUT sheet of what the voter needs to do. "Do not accept Provisional Ballot, if that's the case, etc.
Not a Sanders campaign issue
If you follow some of the links in Steven's post, you'll see that even when voters did exactly as they had been instructed to do, they were denied the crossover ballot, or their names were missing from the voter lists, or they had to fill out a provisional ballot because the machines were broken, or, or, or. There are multiples ways for a rigged system to cheat, the crossover ballot problem was just one of them.
The smaller the mind the greater the conceit. --Aesop
With 55+% unfavorables, selling Clinton even to
Democrats is proving to be too difficult, at least more difficult than outright cheating.
We are looking at a situation where both candidates of the two parties could face either indictment or significant civil suits for alleged fraud. Have we really come to this? If a third party is looking for a real shot, this is the year I think.
"The justness of individual land right is not justifiable to those to whom the land by right of first claim collectively belonged"
wasn't someone
going to do an exit poll in California because the msm conveniently refused to? I've searched and can't find anything.
Yeah, me too!
It was the first thing I did this morning and came up with nothing...
I want my two dollars!
Exit Polls -- Democratic Absentee Voters
https://public.tableau.com/profile/paulmitche11#!/vizhome/CapitolWeeklyD...
From the Light House.
All very strange
I don't know how uniform polling practices are statewide. In my small-town polling place we have paper ballots and the machine tabulation is done elsewhere. OTOH a missing voter roll is a much more serious problem because the poll worker in that case would have to hand out provisional ballots.
We already know Clinton operatives infiltrated the poll worker training process and gave out false information. No way to know how much the totals were skewed as a result of the various misdeeds. All we can say is falsus in unum, falsus in omnibus.
Despise her.
She's so evil, and so is her husband.
And the machine. They can go f*ck themselves. They've had my support for so many elections, but no mas!
I feel sick to my stomach. Thank goodness it's a sunny day here.
Thanks for this, Steve, and keep up the good work! I'm certain there will be more proof that this was stolen from Bernie and we the people in the coming hours and days.
The Clintons Defy Nature
This is an anti-establishment year. The old must pass away for the new, this is the natural process. The Republicans ran a fair primary and the establishment Bush's have passed away. The Democrats ran a crooked primary so the establishment Clinton's did not pass away. The Democrats went against Nature and what was supposed to happen to entrench the old establishment.
Nature will punish them with a loss in the general election, if we are fortunate. Evil is the result of the old clinging on past their time and not allowing the new to blossom. If Hillary wins it will be very bad as Nature will punish America. More war, economic crash, hardship?
Dem Establishment
Paved the way for her so no real threat from the Establishment side would run against her. So she got all the donors, all the endorsements, etc.
Republicans were not united on a candidate - the donors were all over the map and GOP Establishment had too many horses in the race. This allowed the insurgency of Trump to win primaries with less than a majority. If they had united behind one candidate early on, they would have done to Trump exactly what the DNC did to beat down Sanders so their chosen candidate could not lose.
My analysis for what it is worth.
"You can't just leave those who created the problem in charge of the solution."---Tyree Scott
I don't get it
Here in VT, and back when I lived in RI, I simply walk down and cast a vote. There's nothing weird, no one pressuring me to do anything, they hand me a scannable form and I use the special pen and slide it into the machine. The only complaint I've had is one time they didn't give me a sticker saying "I voted." We're obsessed with monitoring other countries' voting processes and ours is still after at least sixteen years a total clusterf-ck.
Ask yourself why this problem would not be fixed
It is easily fixable. Other countries have transparent, secure systems. Are we too poor or technologically unsophisticated to have a secure, transparent and effective system? Some states have good systems. Indeed, 30 years ago there were relatively few problems and the system was relatively secure. There were paper ballots and mechanical voting machines that were really not hackable. People were usually able to vote without long lines. Our voting system has degenerated. It follows that there must be reasons that voting systems have been allowed to become bad and remain bad. I contend that they are allowed to remain bad because they allow the powers that be to rig elections, at least within limits. Don't want black people to vote--don't put enough machines in black precincts and don't check that they work before polling day (or make sure they do not work). Don't want students to vote--same strategy. And with voting machines and central tabulators that anyone with a modicum of ability can hack.......
Agreed
The 2000 election was used as an excuse to degrade and corrupt the voting process. remember hanging chads, and the carefully-selected pictures of election workers with the thickest glasses and/or most-crossed eyes?
Other countries have healthcare for all, too.
It's all in the profits. Who is profiting? Follow the money. We are not technologically unsophisticated, we are profit driven. Which corporations will profit and which POTUS candidate will best ensure those profits. That's the key. It's all about money and greed. Everything about America is about money and greed, anymore.
"The “jumpers” reminded us that one day we will all face only one choice and that is how we will die, not how we will live." Chris Hedges on 9/11
The week after the NY primary
I had to revisit my polling place for a local referendum. Seemed like a no-brainer, I had gotten local info on the issue, it involved no taxpayer funds except those that were held in reserve. Paper ballot, not even a scanner. Drop the ballot in a padlocked box.
The referendum got voted down, big-time. It was a more local-local issue than I was aware of. Or, the ballots were not counted at all. Don't know.
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Now we can get down to business
Where do we go from here? I won't be there, but I'm looking forward to the People's Summit and Green Convention and any other alternative to the Democratic Party.
Some will try to "reform" the Democratic Party. I'm done with it.
Looking forward to pitching in on aa genuine Third Way or Third Party that may save us from the current political kleptocracy.
"They'll say we're disturbing the peace, but there is no peace. What really bothers them is that we are disturbing the war." Howard Zinn
Third Way party
Third Way is an unfortunate choice of words. The Clintons, Obama, the DLC and Dem party are Third Way Dems, neoliberal and neocon to the core.
Question
How would they know who to take off the rolls. How could know the names purged would be Bernie supporters?
demographics, polling, phone canvassing... they know
just like taking off those streets in Brooklyn. It didn't happen ANYWHERE in Hill Country. NO FUCKING WHERE!
Sea Turtle
Easy peasy, Vetinari
First, you've got demographics, so purging young voters is a pretty safe bet. Second, you've got the voter VAN system. Through out the entire campaign process, whenever a voter is contacted, and expresses support for the other candidate, they are removed from the VAN system for that candidate from further contacts. Any slightly intelligent programmer could pull the names that were marked "Bernie supporter" at any point during the campaign in Hillary's VAN.
I still have in my phone my own VAN list and which households expressed support for Hillary. Now, I'm a peon, so I only have the lists I actually contacted, but the data is there.
Browsing habits.
Smart TV w/ voice command.
Data sales are huge.
There is no such thing as TMI. It can always be held in reserve for extortion.
NGP-VAN database
Through NGP-VAN, the Dem party has 100% knowledge of which Dems supported Bernie and which supported Hillary.
disturbing alleged report from a SoCal poll worker
This is from the NextDoor social media platform in my neighborhood:
I worked at a different polling location and there were entire too many people that were showing up as Vote By Mail that said they never signed up for. We had massive amounts of Provisional Ballots that we had to turn in because of this. The first couple of hours of it we didn't think much of it. But, after that along with the writers cramp and all of the complaining? And, I will refrain from mention what type of ballot most of these folks were voting. That is what really started making it all the more interesting. We had one person who was listed in the roster as DEM, then in the Supplemental also as a Rep. We had an entire string of addresses missing from our street index. And, our coordinator was pretty much nowhere to be found. It took us close to 40 minutes after the polls opened to get a password to be able start up our ballot machine that wasn't given to us when this person first showed up at 6 a.m. and neglected to do so. That is just for starters. Whatever the vote tallies are that are being reported, they aren't finished counting by a long shot! It can take up to 30 days for them to 'check' and 'verify' all of the provisional, vote by mail, and late ballots. It was a fiasco! This isn't the first time I have done this. It is the first time I have seen what I did yesterday though. [https://www.reddit.com/r/Kossacks_for_Sanders/comments/4n6jn7/report_fro...
"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society." --Jiddu Krishnamurti
Yes, Dave, Cali was stolen; as were many other states...
And now the Clintons are pivoting to the right, getting up "Republicans for Clinton" and then I read a rumour that she will pick an R for VP, or someone who might as well be an R. Whatever, she is so corrupt she may well make the old time R's look like the good guys.
And so goes this country. Are there no patriots out there in government who can stand up to this? Or is the Clinton Mafia so thoroughly enmeshed and has it claws on all the levers of power. And you dare not challenge the Borg for fear of your job and worse?
Mark my words, if she manages to steal the general as well, she will have an imperial presidency that will make Nixon look as benign as a Salvation Army bell ringer.
The Global corporations who first got a major lever of power under Bill, have just done a coup of this election, and I am sure will just continue.
Thanks Dave for this diary. Appreciate it muchly.
Sea Turtle
Intimidation, purging, ballot stuffing, suppression...
Yes, it is what we call an electoral coup in Latin America and the methodology is about the same in the USA.
From the Light House.
The patriot(s) just had the election
stolen from him/them.
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I'm now fairly convinced
that the general election will simply come down to which party employs the better ratfuckers, not to actual votes at all. I once naively believed that the Democratic party could actually turn out enough real breathing voting people to overcome R trickery. Now, it's just a match between opposing voting machine hackers and clever voter instruction misinformers: the D party has shown us that they are every bit as willing and able to screw with the process as the Rs have been. Who can write the bigger checks to the black hats?
Wow. Ripping off that bandaid sure did sting a bit, but it is actually kind of liberating, in the same sense that watching the steering column penetrate your chest during a car wreck might be: "well, this sucks, but at least it will only hurt for a second". The D's can take their putative "moral high ground", roll it in a fine tube, and stick it in their ears.
Twitter hashtags: #ThankYouBernie, #IWillNeverStandWithHer
https://twitter.com/hashtag/ThankYouBernie?src=tren
https://twitter.com/hashtag/IWillNeverStandWithHer?src=hash
"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society." --Jiddu Krishnamurti
Although the Donald has a history of working with the Mob...
The Clintons are probably better versed in electoral fraud. Note also that the Republican nomination process has been pretty straightforward without any evidence of fraud. The vote totals were consistent with the exit polls. The Donald is also too much of a loose canon for Corporate America and their henchmen so they will not go out on a limb for him (i.e. Rove will not pay to have the election hacked for Trump). Bottom line, if the election is close, I would not be surprised to see anomalies in favor of Clinton (assuming she is not indicted before the election). However, Trump will probably not roll over if he thinks he is being ripped off and neither will his supporters.
Palast has a piece out too
http://www.gregpalast.com/california-stolen-sanders-right-nowspecial-bul...
and a pretty interesting meeting earlier this week about vote stealing in the coming general election (12 min).
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joy7CIIZiM8]
Starting with the Iowa caucus on, there has been manipulation and cheating. On top of that we've had distortions, distractions, omissions, and out right lies from the MSM. It is amazing we've come this far. If we could just get the foundation stories out big before the convention it might sway the supers. Or a good indictment, or Comey shedding light...
I can still hope for a few weeks. It ain't over till it's over.
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
trustthevote lawsuit - voting machine fraud
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_IAJ5fAm3Cs
trustthevote.org
"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society." --Jiddu Krishnamurti
Great that they Are suing
Is there any chance of getting a ruling before the convention?
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I gather, from others' comments, that they have to sue state
by state to challenge the results, so unlikely--assuming the suits were allowed to proceed in the first place. But if they have evidence, hard to suppress it entirely. Though it could become gospel that charges of election fraud are a 2016 election CT. Same way we're still hearing that Nader was a spoiler in 2000, when it's been documented that he wasn't, that Gore was a poor campaigner and that it was Ds voting R (esp. in FL) that tipped that election. Along with brother Jeb's control of the voting machines and the Supreme Ct. and Gore's refusal to fight.
"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society." --Jiddu Krishnamurti
I like Robbins and Palast to be sure
but I have to comment that whenever I hear Rosario Dawson talk politics, I am struck by how intelligent and articulate she is and how much I agree with her.
One method we shouldn't forget...
... is calling anyone who comes up with factual evidence of electoral fraud, voter suppression is attacked as a sore loser, a nut-case, and an idiot. The puder they scream, the more truth there is to the the charges. if they weren't true they would open all suspect polling to non-partisan audits and count all the provisional ballots.
From the Light House.
Papering over "Irregularities" with a boogy man...
who only is running because Bill asked him to.
Democracies are not run like this. Little pissant banana republics with dictators who wear more medals than Michael Phelps.
I do not pretend I know what I do not know.
Palast writes of theft of CA from Sanders; CA exit polls
http://www.gregpalast.com/california-stolen-sanders-right-nowspecial-bul...
Link to info about CA exit polls: https://www.reddit.com/r/Kossacks_for_Sanders/comments/4n5a2c/exit_polls...
Exit polls show significant discrepancy (Sanders getting more votes than reported): https://public.tableau.com/profile/paulmitche11#!/vizhome/CapitolWeeklyD...
"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society." --Jiddu Krishnamurti
Shocking... no really...
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjbPi00k_ME]
Seeing as we're getting fascism back, can we at least get good fashion back as well?
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Posted the same thing. Didn
Posted the same thing. Didn't see yours. So much for original independent thinking?
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Stop the War!
!!!! what is the trigger point? 49%?
And then merrily merrily re-do?
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Surprising that the polling was so off
and that it underestimated Hillary this time.
results from California
Comparing official numbers
http://www.nytimes.com/elections/results/california
with absentee exit polls
https://public.tableau.com/profile/paulmitche11#!/vizhome/CapitolWeeklyD...
does in the initial view tend to show reasonable numbers in Northern California, but in Southern California with greater population densities, the 2 graphs do look more inconsistent between official data and exit poll data.
However it could be explained by the broken machines, late opening and screwed up voter rolls. I expected to see less fraud here, and maybe that is the case, but I will wait until Richard Charnin can get enough data on his site to show the California big picture a little more clear.
I am happy that ElectionJusticeUSA.org made it happen, there is a dedicated group of people in California who got enough sampling from the absentee data to give us some idea of how much fraud is going on in the official counts.
Hello everyone
thank you Steven D for this diary.
Outrage is justified. Did we believe for a moment that those who have power would allow us to elect their puppets out of office?
This election is a circus to distract us from the real problem and the true culprits.
The Clinton family are not among those who have power. They are not among the heads of the major "families." They are more like street bosses than capi. They have to deliver, or they are out.
What Senator Sanders and those who have worked for him have achieved, primarily, is this: a political mechanism for those who have been left out of the second gilded age. Occupy Wall Street was essentially breaking the law. Being unarmed, law enforcement easily removed them.
Law enforcement cannot act against voting. That is too obvious, though I am certain that the time will come soon when that will happen in the United States, too.
Therefore, it takes dishonest political tricks. Rigging caucus proceedings. Removing voters from the rolls, gerrymandering.
What we all know is that in the United States, elections are stolen. This is now clear to anyone who has been paying attention.
Those who support any other candidate also know this. They are blind this time, because the vote stealing has helped their candidate win.
Still, even this fact can become taboo in public discourse. The media will speak loudly against it, until any claim otherwise is ridiculous. Our brother Alex Ocana has reminded us of this above.
What has to happen, in my, view, is the long game. Go way back into the grass, to where neither the police, nor those who profit from crooked elections and political parties, have any say.
Cultivate among yourselves individuals whom you trust, because, never mind Senator Sanders, you will need the discipline of a thousand great souls to succeed. When most of those with whom you shared everything turn against you, do not despair. For the one who shares, nothing ever goes to waste.
Love. Grow vegetables. Knit. Smith. Create. Educate. Be prepared to leave everything behind. Those who wish to have power over us have taken away the vote. They will take away so much more before they are powerless. Not clutching to things, we will gain everything, if we are single-minded.
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The Hillmeister is way out of her league
The Trumpeter said last night that next week he's holding a presser reviewing all the baggage of Hill and Bill.
Bill baggage?
Hill baggage?
Yeah, Podesta has no clue how to deal with this. We had a deal since 1999 with the MSM. No one was ever too bring this up again. Never. Oops.
Yum, Sander's millennials not even born back in the "good ole days" Are shocked, shocked I say.
Wait, what, she's as old as my grandmother? Email?
And so it goes.
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In California it is your right
to find out from your county elections official if your provisional ballot was counted and, if not, the reason why it was not counted.
http://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/ballot-status
I'm not on facebook or twitter so I don't know if this is well known, but it needs to be.
I'm curious to know just how many provisional ballots were cast in California yesterday.
The people, united, will never be defeated.
1.3+ million less CA votes than in 2008...
Certainly a number of roadblocks are used as momentum killers, from the media to registration and ballot hurdles and the fact that insiders (accountable to no one really since parties are a private affair) control the strings of the process.
Not sure which state had the highest participation both historically and as a percentage of their total population. Oregon seems to have had a 66% participation rate, whereas California was in the 30ish percent participation rate.
Another good piece on California ballots
http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/06/09/where-are-the-missing-california-...