(File this under ‘You Think???): Was the Heated 2016 Democratic Primary Rigged for Debbie Wasserman Schultz?

I had to laugh when I ran across this. I’ve not seen any news on, or heard any discussion of the possibility or likelihood this lying, faithless, disgusting public parasite might have been doing the same thing she made certain the Clinton Creature able to do. But I sure as Hell am not surprised.

Btw, any news on her buddies, the Awan family? I wonder if they had a hand in this??

Was the Heated 2016 Democratic Primary Rigged for Debbie Wasserman Schultz?

Just weeks earlier she had been forced to resign as head of the Democratic National Committee after stolen emails showed her talking smack about Senator Sanders and leaning on the scales in favor of her ally Hillary Clinton. Canova focused the national outrage against her, raising over $3 million, and turning the congressional election into a referendum on her policies and ethics. But with a 13.5% victory she overcame questions about her political viability and returned triumphantly to her job in Washington.

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On Thursday, an election transparency lawsuit was filed to preserve digital images of the ballots in the Alabama Senate race. And in a hearing in Broward County Florida, last month, a year-long battle to view the ballots in the race between Wasserman Schultz and Canova came to a head with a surprising admission by the Broward County Supervisor of Elections’ office. In violation of both federal and state statutes that require federal election materials be preserved for 22 months, their office destroyed the ballots from the Wasserman Schultz/Canova race after only 12 months. Broward County Supervisor of Elections Brenda Snipes personally signed off on the ballots’ destruction.

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The Broward County Supervisor of Elections’ staff refused to answer questions during the ballot inspection, so it was not possible to ask them to explain the problems with their data. They are being deposed in regard to the destruction of ballots, and could be subject to criminal prosecution. The printouts of the scans were sealed and sent to Columbia County, New York, in case further examination is useful.

A November article in the Christian Science Monitor brought to light some disturbing facts about the Broward County voter database:

It’s estimated there are 61,000 more registered voters than eligible voters.
It’s estimated there are 560 centenarians currently living in Broward County, but there are 3,044 centenarians registered to vote there.

http://www.alternet.org/investigations/was-heated-2016-democratic-primar...

I thought only Putin stole or rigged our elections. I guess he has competition. /s

EDIT: think/thunk (in tags)

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Roy Blakeley's picture

that people that believe they have won elections honestly welcome rigorous recounts. Such recounts dispel any doubts and validate their victories. From Ohio 'O4, to Kansas '14, to Broward county '16, to various HRC victories and on and on, rigorous examinations of the fundamental voting data, be they hard drives, paper strips, scan sheets, or whatever have been sandbagged. Data have disappeared with no valid explanation given. This tells me that there must be a lot of voting dishonesty. DWS is just another crook among many.

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Cant Stop the Macedonian Signal's picture

@Roy Blakeley Starts with 2000. Although I think Connie Mack's Senate campaign in the 90s may have been a test run.

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"More for Gore or the son of a drug lord--None of the above, fuck it, cut the cord."
--Zack de la Rocha

"I tell you I'll have nothing to do with the place...The roof of that hall is made of bones."
-- Fiver

Roy Blakeley's picture

Thanks for the Hank W. link (although he doesn't belong on the same page with DWS).

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edg's picture

@Roy Blakeley

DWS doesn't belong on the same page as Hank.

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@Roy Blakeley
post as DWS but i did it anyway.

NO ONE sings that song like Hw.

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I'm tired of this back-slapping "Isn't humanity neat?" bullshit. We're a virus with shoes, okay? That's all we are. - Bill Hicks

Politics is the entertainment branch of industry. - Frank Zappa

detroitmechworks's picture

[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u06DpcFXc4U]

I'm starting to wonder if we're in an 80's time loop and nobody noticed that they changed Reagan's name to Trump.

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I do not pretend I know what I do not know.

orlbucfan's picture

have a corn cob stuck up his arse. DWS's re-election crooked? Hey, we're talking Floridumb here. Where all crooks come to live on their homestead exemption, and die happily not in jail. gawd forbid! Rec'd!! @detroitmechworks

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Inner and Outer Space: the Final Frontiers.

The Aspie Corner's picture

@orlbucfan ...have no avenue of escape from Flawer-Duh.

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Modern education is little more than toeing the line for the capitalist pigs.

Guerrilla Liberalism won't liberate the US or the world from the iron fist of capital.

Cant Stop the Macedonian Signal's picture

@The Aspie Corner People living in New York got defrauded just the same as we did. The corruption is endemic.

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"More for Gore or the son of a drug lord--None of the above, fuck it, cut the cord."
--Zack de la Rocha

"I tell you I'll have nothing to do with the place...The roof of that hall is made of bones."
-- Fiver

Cant Stop the Macedonian Signal's picture

@orlbucfan Not sure how this squares with being dumb. We have criminals in our political system, possibly backed by organized crime. Doesn't have much to do with the general intelligence level.

The people who, in the 80s and early 90s, let themselves be snowed by the first round of these criminals--they were dumb.

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"More for Gore or the son of a drug lord--None of the above, fuck it, cut the cord."
--Zack de la Rocha

"I tell you I'll have nothing to do with the place...The roof of that hall is made of bones."
-- Fiver

Cant Stop the Macedonian Signal's picture

what surprises me is that anybody is attempting to hold them accountable. I mean, anybody with power.

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"More for Gore or the son of a drug lord--None of the above, fuck it, cut the cord."
--Zack de la Rocha

"I tell you I'll have nothing to do with the place...The roof of that hall is made of bones."
-- Fiver

As I have mentioned before I used to work for a faction within a democratic machine controlled city. Through the years dog-eat-dog cheating in the primaries has become part of the democratic party DNA. These elections didn't decide ideology but who controlled the patronage system of city jobs, contracts, etc. Very serious money and jobs were at stake.

With that in mind, it is absolutely rare beyond rare that a machine or incumbent candidate has ever been beaten. That was Jane Byrne in Chicago. Even then she was also a party insider. Lieberman ran as an independent and still won.

More the case of Blanche Lincoln in her AK primary where the entire left and unions aligned against her. She won, and then I read about shit like what happened to Bernie like the movement and placement of polling locations. Or the purging of voter database in NYC.

On the Russia bullshit. Anybody who has worked inside a polling site should immediately realize that the only people who can game and cheat the system are people inside the election apparatus. In my case thee only way for the Russians or any foreign power to change the results would require that sleeper agents by the tens of thousands be put in place so they work could inside the system. And these sleepers would have had to be placed years and years and years in advance.

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@MrWebster
The average punter still believes his vote counts/that we have the Best Democracy Money Can Buy In The World/that we can change things through the current electoral system.

More people need to hear what a banana republic this really his. And they won't believe until people start telling/sharing their stories.

Please consider writing something.

From the HBO documentary "Hacking Democracy",

Hardly anyone talks about this one.

During the 2008 NY Democratic Primary, the NY Times uncovered that "Unofficial Tallies in City Understated Obama Vote."

Black voters are heavily represented in the 94th Election District in Harlem’s 70th Assembly District. Yet according to the unofficial results from the New York Democratic primary last week, not a single vote in the district was cast for Senator Barack Obama.

That anomaly was not unique. In fact, a review by The New York Times of the unofficial results reported on primary night found about 80 election districts among the city’s 6,106 where Mr. Obama supposedly did not receive even one vote, including cases where he ran a respectable race in a nearby district.

City election officials this week said that their formal review of the results, which will not be completed for weeks, had confirmed some major discrepancies between the vote totals reported publicly — and unofficially — on primary night and the actual tally on hundreds of voting machines across the city.

In the Harlem district, for instance, where the primary night returns suggested a 141 to 0 sweep by Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, the vote now stands at 261 to 136. In an even more heavily black district in Brooklyn — where the vote on primary night was recorded as 118 to 0 for Mrs. Clinton — she now barely leads, 118 to 116.

The history of New York elections has been punctuated by episodes of confusion, incompetence and even occasional corruption. And election officials and lawyers for both Mr. Obama and Mrs. Clinton agree that it is not uncommon for mistakes to be made by weary inspectors rushing on election night to transcribe columns of numbers that are delivered first to the police and then to the news media.

(emphasis mine)

As you say, widespread corrupt party insiders fudging the numbers on a small scale. Always reminds me of the Joseph Stalin quote about the most important thing in elections is who counts the votes.

Greatest Country/Best Democracy In The World™. Heh...what a joke.

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THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDED
FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD
WAS MUSIC"

- Kurt Vonnegut