NY - Audit announced due to 125,000 removed from rolls
Not sure how big this is...
PR16-04-037 NEWS RELEASE
Contact : Eric Sumberg, (212) 669-3535, esumberg@comptroller.nyc.gov April 19, 2016
- See more at: http://comptroller.nyc.gov/newsroom/amid-widespread-reports-of-voter-dis...AMID WIDESPREAD REPORTS OF VOTER DISENFRANCHISEMENT AND POLLING PROBLEMS, COMPTROLLER STRINGER ANNOUNCES AUDIT OF BOARD OF ELECTIONS
(New York, NY) – With the New York City Board of Elections confirming that more than 125,000 voters in Brooklyn were removed from voter rolls and widespread reports of voters having trouble accessing polling sites and other polling irregularities, New York City Comptroller Scott M. Stringer announced today that his office would undertake an audit of the operations and management of the Board of Elections.
“There is nothing more sacred in our nation than the right to vote, yet election after election, reports come in of people who were inexplicably purged from the polls, told to vote at the wrong location or unable to get in to their polling site,” Comptroller Stringer said. “The people of New York City have lost confidence that the Board of Elections can effectively administer elections and we intend to find out why the BOE is so consistently disorganized, chaotic and inefficient. With four elections in New York City in 2016 alone, we don’t have a moment to spare.”
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Shut. Barn Door. Horse. nt
FEEL THE BERN: "But such is the irresistible nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants, is the liberty of appearing." - Thomas Paine
"Here I Stand, I can do no other." - Attributed to Martin Luther, 1521
That was pretty much my 1st thought tbh
(reply intended for Tommymac)
“To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.” -Voltaire
It's rampant. The Clintons were campaigning at their
polling place and nothing was done, Polling locations were switched late yesterday.... it just boggles the mind. We do not live in a democracy
Don't believe everything you think.
The Establisment just doesn't understand the pitchforks
Are getting closer and closer everytime this happens... take away the appearance of fairness in a governing process and bad things happen when the little people reach the boiling point...just ask Nicholas, Louis and Marie.
FEEL THE BERN: "But such is the irresistible nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants, is the liberty of appearing." - Thomas Paine
"Here I Stand, I can do no other." - Attributed to Martin Luther, 1521
Agree
I think we might have already lit the torches here on the west coast. People are very angry.
What they're doing is treason.
The penalty for which is death.
I don't know if it is treason as its not to an outside nations
benefit.
But it is almost certain at this point that this shit is not an accident and the citizens hopefully do not take this laying down.
This is an outrage.
The same thing happened to my wife down here in Florida, we showed up at the polls and she somehow was changed to No Party Affiliation, yet mine was still valid and we did it at the exact same time at the same place...
Something stinks....
"I used to vote Republican & Democrat, I also used to shit my pants. Eventually I got smart enough to stop doing both things." -Me
I'm not a techie, but I've been told
that hacking and disenfranchising voters is easily done at the party database
Time to go about muttering
Nicholas, Louis and Marie? Or would everyone miss the connect, and think ...Cage, ...Armstrong and ...Osmond?
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Agree
but get the impression people are paying attention now. Team Clinton have not done the rest of the Dem establishment any favors by being so brazen with their ethically bankrupt behavior. Or I may just be feeling stupidly optimistic.
“To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.” -Voltaire
We have proof something is seriously rotten! What to do?
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtSmfws0_To]
... yeah ...
I do not pretend I know what I do not know.
Could this, depending upon what is found,
invalidate this primary and another one be called?
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Only if Bernie wins.
SORRY! Sorry, couldn't resist.
I do not pretend I know what I do not know.
There are probably
teams of Clinton lawyers working on exactly that - says he only half joking and wondering what slime ball Lanny Davis is up to lately.
“To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.” -Voltaire
I am not sure what sanctions are available
but I am not optimistic. The NY Comptroller is an elected one and the current incumbent is a Dem and moderately sleazy from what I can make out. I suspect that this may be a stunt designed to give the appearance of a fair process where none in fact exists but could be wrong.
“To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.” -Voltaire
But how could this have happened in Brooklyn.
Brooklyn is the home of Hellery's NY campaign org. Surely they were keeping a watchful eye that no election fraud took place in their own neighborhood district! Cough cough!
Clinton Crime Family is possibly the most corrupt in the history of US politics.
Donnie The #ShitHole Douchebag. Fake Friend to the Working Class. Real Asshole.
ha ha
because they care
“To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.” -Voltaire
No, they would have to take a back seat to
the Bush family. The Clintons are just another tool of the PTB, namely the Bush family.
Makes sense now, GHWB and Bill Clinton getting along so famously
once Bill was out of the White House . . .
Who loves Bill Clinton? Barbara Bush does
The revolution will devolve
into outright rebellion if this continues. WTF - this is not okay. America is no longer a democracy.
"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
I think there are big things
happening just below the surface - this election has a very different feel to it.
Lots of scared establishment types - they are freaking out.
“To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.” -Voltaire
I agree
There have been rumors that there would be mass resignations of government officials if Hillary is not indicted. Too many people know too much.
Disgusting and
the real 'news' coverage of this Dem. rigged primary is even more disgusting. It's not just indies who are having trouble many registered Democratic voters are 'mysteriously' finding that they are registered on the voter rolls as no-affiliation. This whole primary is out of hand as far as being blatantly rigged. Who gains by this other then the candidates selected by the bent Dem. machine?
When every Democratic public official from mayors to congress critters and governors endorse HRC and then we see state after state messing with the voter rolls and polling places. You have to be a moron or deluded to think that this primary is democratic or legitimate. How stupid do they think people are.
Why does the Democratic machine think slamming the door on voters is going to get the Mad Bomber into the WH? Unify they are saying stop this democratic nonsense and get behind the owner's selection or else?. Extortion instead of voting. Fuck em. No way will I vote for Hillary. I will vote as useless as it is but even the down ticket Dems. are in the bag. I will not however not vote as this is exactly what they want. Culling the stray Dem. sheeple isn't going to work as at this point there are more of us then the brain washed party royalist's.
How stupid do they think people are?
If you can ask that question, you're obviously too dangerous to "vote" in the election Kabuki.
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I will not vote for Clinton
cannot bring myself to do that under any circumstances. As far as down ticket races go I'll vote for non-machine Dems (they have a really hard time of it).
Whatever happens with this election I do think that it is the end of a very bad era and that gives me some cause for optimism. The good stuff that is happening now isn't going to suddenly stop once the election is decided. As you say - there is more of us than them (and that scares them crapless)
“To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.” -Voltaire
"Why does the Democratic machine think slamming
the door on voters is going to get the Mad Bomber into the WH?"
It worked for the Bush why not the MadBomber?
"I’m a human being, first and foremost, and as such I’m for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.” —Malcolm X
I'm trying to remember the name of that Russian guy
who has the happy-hour drink named after him. No, not the Russian dog guy, the other guy. Those drinks are very simple to make.
And what about the audit? A Day Late and A Dollar Short?
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Molotov?
Did I win??
Shhhhh....
let's just say it's not really a drink for smokers and the dudes name eludes me.
With their hearts they turned to each others heart for refuge
In troubled years that came before the deluge
*Jackson Browne, 1974, Before the Deluge https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SX-HFcSIoU
How can you abide the luxury of
forgetfulness?
Jesus!
Well
If you don't remember that you forgot what you can not recall
then there is no gain or loss
and so
the dude abides.
With their hearts they turned to each others heart for refuge
In troubled years that came before the deluge
*Jackson Browne, 1974, Before the Deluge https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SX-HFcSIoU
lol,
bitterly. No really, NY AG Schneiderman (an approaching Good Guy, so far) has called for an investigation above State Comptroller, complaints of voter problems were 4X 2012 numbers. The sniffers sniff something off...
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if they're gonna rig the primaries they can rig the general
they don't need our votes. They can crook their way to the White House.
The general will
be a competition between two corrupt halves of the same machine I suspect.
“To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.” -Voltaire
That's the hope
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LK9m3Ncrchw]
Easiest way to deal with this TODAY...
...Is to just have everyone who shows up to vote today vote regardless of registration status. Register them at the door.
Not that it'll ever happen, but there's enough shenanegans going on to justify it.
Just my opinion.
Love of power is a puppet string. - Makana, Fire is Ours
I am for anything that makes it easier
(Edit: reply meant for MDemocracyfan)
I'd just have all primaries on the same day at same places - both parties and everyone gets to choose one (and only one) to vote in. May not be 100% ideal but it would be fairer than what we have and far less corruptable
All this registering party affiliation stuff is BS.
“To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.” -Voltaire
We do it that way in Virginia
It's about the only thing we do do right.
There is no justice. There can be no peace.
You mean our political system is rigged and corrupt?
I would have never thought.
This is one of the reasons I'll no longer vote for politicians, the political system is rigged and corrupt (yes, it has been said before). The other reason is because it's not democracy. I don't want to play anymore if it's not democracy. I don't really trust the sheeple but I trust them more than the politicians who we foolishly portray as representing the sheeple.
Something has to give somewhere
and tinkering around the edges of a broken system is not going to get the job done. That much is now beyond dispute imo
“To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.” -Voltaire
NY Voter Purge Lawsuit Update
This is bad....really bad.
https://www.facebook.com/TheYoungTurks/videos/10153583636724205/
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Slate "I Voted" stickers for NY
Get Your Own Honest “I Voted” Sticker for New York’s Disaster of a Primary
"We've done the impossible, and that makes us mighty."
The little snippet of an
The little snippet of an article mentions all the mayhem, but most of the stickers are snarky and unfunny to me in the face of the seriousness of what this election in general and thus this primary means for the nation and the world, since what we do in our country disproportionately affects the rest of the planet.
I'm okay with cynicism as a coping device for people who are fighting against the rampant corruption, but not so much for above-it-all assholes like Slate.
(This reply is not directed at you rmwarnick, just my reaction to the Slate article.)
Haven't we "liberated" small
Haven't we "liberated" small countries for much less corruption??
/snarksorta
"Love One Another" ~ George Harrison
The do as I say not as I do nation n/t
“To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.” -Voltaire
At least the Purge is Being Reported
Was not certain that news of the purge would be squashed or ignored, but reports are turning up in the NY Daily News and now NPR:
http://www.npr.org/2016/04/19/474896027/after-more-than-100-000-voters-d...
Of course the problems are heavily in Sanders strongholds...just nauseating.
"So it goes."
Kurt Vonnegut
The fact that there is
some transparency is important and a big deal. The country is getting a good hard look at exactly how machine politics operates and this will do the Clinton's no favors whatsoever.
NY may yet turn out to be a Pyrrhic victory for Team Hillary.
“To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.” -Voltaire