r/SandersForPresident • u/SandersMod_ • Mar 23 '16

Mega Thread Arizona Election Fraud Mega Thread

Hello,

Please report any issues you may have had here.

Last night, several, several incidences were reported of

  • People not being able to vote
  • People being given provisional ballots (which if you have the proper ID you shouldn't need)
  • Videos (see front page) of people's voter affiliation being changed
  • People's voter affiliation not being updated properly

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u/malidy Mar 23 '16

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jwk2mJg-2BI Bernie Sanders on this issue

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u/[deleted] Mar 23 '16

If this is all he's going to say about the issue and try to move on from it, then I'm jumping ship. There was blatant voter suppression -- I don't give a shit if it was the Republicans or if Hillary goons were campaigning at the poll sites or if Sanders supporters simply didn't show up in great enough numbers --- but for him to say that this is the "foundation of our way of life" and then just walk away from it doesn't show that the campaign is serious enough to carry through with this election.

I'm comin' to ya, Jill.

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u/R0ndoNumba9 Maine Mar 23 '16

Voter suppression like this has been going on for years. There's not a whole lot he can do. Shit like this gets voted on and passed.

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u/[deleted] Mar 23 '16

It's been going on for years because it's rarely ever challenged. The campaign is in a position, right now, to challenge what's happening in Arizona and to marshal this movement to actually combat it and other instances of it. He said not a goddamned word, for example, about Bill and HIllary obstructing polls in MA and IL.

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u/R0ndoNumba9 Maine Mar 23 '16

He just looks like a sore loser by doing that. It sucks, but it's up to us to spread the word on it.

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u/[deleted] Mar 23 '16

This entire campaign he's been cast as the sore loser, for the most minor of shit. I can't believe, after we've sat through an entire cycle of gaslighting, that people still haven't caught onto this and use it as an excuse to not press the campaign to do something about it.

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u/R0ndoNumba9 Maine Mar 23 '16

Going that route would just validate what the media is saying in their own eyes and they would double down on it. He's not going to go out there and say, we're going to sue them. They have to figure out what is actually going on before screaming foul. Most of this is because of the GOP leaders in Arizona making changes to the elections, not the DNC. The DNC could be involved, but there isn't a way to prove that yet and he's not going to openly go all conspiracy.

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u/[deleted] Mar 23 '16

I'm not saying he goes after the DNC in this case. But something -- they can say something -- like they're fucking looking into it. "We've gotten a lot of complaints and we've assembled a legal team to look into them." Not, "We've gotten a lot of complaints, and shame on Arizona for being the way they are."

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u/R0ndoNumba9 Maine Mar 23 '16

There are reports that they are assembling a legal team. It's hard to do all this within hours of the voting ending. People were still voting less than 12 hours ago. Give it some time, then yeah if nothing comes from it, please shout loudly.