voted. I'm thinking just before the convention.
There's still time for a HRC indictment, but I'm not holding my breath.
Yesterday's Evening Blue had a good piece summarizing the situation with HRC, Comey, DOJ, and the election.
http://www.ninaillingworth.com/2016/06/01/the-foggy-bottom-of-clintons-m...

Leaving the party is not only a good idea, it is the only idea. But it must be coupled with the creation of a new entity that we can rally around and that will carry forward the issues that Bernie has made central to his campaign.

As the saying goes, all politics are local. We can start things here at c99%, but this is not so much a forum for action as it is for discussion of ideas. To carry the fight to the real world we need locally organized boots on the ground. I am not sure how we get there but am willing to start the ball rolling here in Phoenix. Are there others who will join me?

i think it was a matter of having election results certified and that process is still ongoing. i guess there was some concern that when it came to your vote and you had switched party designation right after your respective primary then it might cause a problem for having your vote certified? i don't know what the actual cutoff date is for that. it probably varies from state to state.

i don't know if doing it the week before the convention will allow for the impression to be made when it takes time to update the voter rolls and transmit that information to the party. maybe if they see a sudden influx that information might get transmitted more rapidly.

whatever the date, it should be an easy one to remember. July 1, August 1, 7/7, 8/8 etc.

**edit**

from the LA Times.
http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-ca-california-primary-wednesday-s...

As of early Wednesday morning, about 5 million ballots had already been counted, but there was no official word on how many remained. State election law gives counties 30 days to finish their canvassing of votes cast. Secretary of State Alex Padilla must receive certified results from each of California's 58 counties by July 8.

as a National Re-Register Your Vote, on the day after the convention and it is being discussed on an earlier thread here

In another thread on this topic of leaving the Democratic Party en masse on a single day, Big Al raised a valuable question: what's the goal?

A lot of us are pissed off at how this primary season went, and we are anxious to find a concrete action to move us forward in some way, any way. Our disgust for the party's corruption, its handling of the primaries, its unending bait-and-switch under the cry "It's for the Supreme Court!," leaves us wanting to exit pronto. So the action we gravitate toward most viscerally is to leave the party on a single day. Why?

Any strategy should start with a goal, toward the accomplishment of which any action is directed, in a manner that cannot be misconstrued or confused by all who witness it.

What is achieved by leaving the party? Other than personal satisfaction, that is, at cleansing ourselves of the association and odor?

Does it lose the Dems votes? No, they were gonna lose those votes (or not) no matter what our official affiliation(s) might be.

Does it send a message? Maybe, but only if enough people participate on the same day. Any lawyer versed in courtroom battles will tell you you don't ask a question to which you don't already know the answer. Similarly, because it's also a battleground tactic, activists should not urge an action in which they don't already know they'll achieve success. Otherwise it just looks lame.

If we don't get a massive outflow, it reveals weakness or division in our ranks. Even if we are successful in sending a big message with massive defections, the action will be dismissed by the party and the corporate media as so many childish whiners and sore losers taking their ball and going home -- which sends a crappy message to others, fence-sitters now, whom we'd hope to recruit to a more progressive agenda in the future.

So if this is the extent of the action, it's personally satisfying at the expense of being strategically and tactically ambiguous, at best.

There must be more to the action. A goal. Something that requires this step of public defection, so the defection becomes a genuine warning. What is that greater goal that requires this defection? It's not the votes, which we can withhold without the defections. What else is it? Isolate that, and then see if a defection from the Democratic Party serves that greater goal best.

All this talk of leaving got me thinking back when. I don't even really know how I became a member. When I first became aware of how wrong and evil the Vietnam fiasco was I hated LBJ with a passion. I still remember the chants of LBJ, how many kids did you kill today? After watching the 68 convention on tv and the Chicago 8 trial I couldn't ever imagine thinking myself a democrat. Nixon was the trump bogeyman then and McGovern drew me in. It's been pretty much the same ever since. I'm sorry but the vote for hill because of trump don't work no more. I'm still self loathing and in shame for voting for Lieberman, thank you al gore. So I'm in the migration, enough is enough.

Please excuse a Canadian for commenting or making suggestions. I can feel at least some of all your pain, bitterness and disillusionment -- but there's work to do and it should be done with focus, determination and pride. "Leaving the Dem Party" is the best idea I've seen. For everyone to do it in concert...same day, same name...will get the message across to the PTB. To have the most impact on the 'party', it has to happen before the convention...a week or just days before (I agree that leaving it to October is too late).

Another commenter here wondered how to contact all the Bernie supporters...I remember seeing an article on Politico in the last few days about what the DNC and the Hillary campaign want most from Bernie...his voter/supporter list or database (otherwise known as "the pot of gold"). Perhaps this could be worked out with Bernie's campaign. I know, I know...this could/would be seen as dirty pool, especially if Bernie officially throws his support to Hillary. However, if he goes the other route (i.e. says "hell with it" and runs as an independent), then all's fair, right? Just an idea.

It rarely happens, but there are many Canadians right now who wish they were Americans so they could participate in this. The Great Not-So-White North (thanks climate change!) loves Bernie and his message.

What about the night Bill Clinton speaks, although I think it should be more like for a week rather than a day so there is more time to build momentum.

My assumption is that barring an incredible turn of events, Bernie will go right back to the Senate with a much larger voice and gavel. The Clinton backers are committed to marginalizing him because they know that the minute a Clinton administration proposes another neoliberal giveaway he'll be standing right there, where he's always been, in opposition to the bombs or the betrayal. Nothing would please them more than to characterize all Sander's criticism as primary sour grapes.

It's also why they're feverishly courting Elizabeth Warren for VP. The most overused word in a Clinton presidency will be "legacy" though "investigation" is likely to share top honors. Any opposition from the left will face withering establishment criticism until that key moment when the whole rotting enterprise crumbles in plain view. On that day, we'll all enjoy kos returning to write a heartfelt apology a compelling new series on saving electricity.

I think Bernie is going to have some positive action plans for us to explore very soon. I though he was magnificent last night.

A mass exodus from the Democratic Party on July 4.

Declare independence from the party.

Declare the political revolution has started in earnest.

I like #DumptheDems... it plays on #DumpTrump...

beyond him, and would just give more fodder to the Bernie haters in the party. Perhaps #DemNoMore, although I don't find it that catchy.

Should be soon and send a clear message right before or during the convention.

the day after HRC coronated would be the best.

let the party know precisely who is leading them down a shit path