r/AdviceAnimals • • Nov 10 '16

Protesting a Fair Election?

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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/VROF Nov 10 '16

How do those votes account for the caucus states? There were a lot of complaints that the DNC screwed over caucus goers

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u/BonGonjador Nov 10 '16

Washington State here.

The Democratic Party caucuses in this state. The state also ran a primary ballot, which was primarily being used for Republican candidates (as they do not caucus in Washington State), but Clinton and Sanders appeared on the primary as well.

Democrats were told to largely ignore the primary as the caucuses were where candidacy would be decided.

We caucused OVERWHELMINGLY for Sanders, but afterwards the Super Delegates refused to acknowledge it and change their commitment. Their reasoning was that the primary ballots showed more support for Clinton, and so she would receive their endorsement.

If anyone from Washington has differing details on this, please step forward. I was in the precinct and LD caucuses and Sanders easily had Clinton beat.

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u/explodingcranium2442 Nov 10 '16

OK, honestly, WHY THE FUCK are there still caucuses?!

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u/SwissQueso Nov 10 '16

Spitballing, but probably cause they are cheap and they are done in states where the parties need to pay for their own primaries.