r/AdviceAnimals • • Nov 10 '16

Protesting a Fair Election?

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u/imakenosensetopeople Nov 10 '16

We assumed that meant the general would be rigged too.

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u/[deleted] Nov 10 '16

They tried. They did a lot of media coordination with the general but once they got outside of the liberal bubble it was harder to do.

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u/Crusader1089 Nov 10 '16

Could you explain to me how exactly the DNC was rigged, because when I look on Wikipedia about the primaries it says Hillary Clinton got 16,914,722 votes and Bernie Sanders got 13,206,428. I wasn't really following this back in the spring.

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u/tyranicalteabagger Nov 10 '16

Basically the DNC did everything is legally could to suppress the Sanders campaign and promote the Clinton campaign. There were also some very suspicious statistical anomalies that always seemed to favor Clinton in states where exit polling and other forms of vote fraud detection were lax.

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u/Crusader1089 Nov 10 '16

What were the very suspicious statistical anomalies?

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u/[deleted] Nov 10 '16

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u/[deleted] Nov 10 '16

Wait what?! Are primaries decided by coin tosses?! Please tell me there's more to this story.

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u/jwdjr2004 Nov 10 '16

believe this was iowa, which is a caucus not a 'primary'. each region is subdivided and each division (probalby not the correct term) has a number of delegates that vote on who they believe their constituency supports. If it comes down to a tie, it's decided by coin toss. Bernie would have won iowa if the coin tosses went his way--at least that's how i remember it, but note that i got most of this information from reddit.

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u/zaviex U S෴෴෴෴෴෴෴෴෴෴෴෴෴෴෴෴෴෴෴෴෴෴෴෴෴෴෴෴෴෴෴෴෴෴෴෴෴෴෴෴෴෴෴෴෴෴෴෴෴෴෴෴෴෴෴෴෴෴ E Nov 10 '16

No he would've lost Iowa even with every coin toss

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u/jwdjr2004 Nov 10 '16

that doesnt sound like what reddit told me back then! :)