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Related: About this forumMassachusetts experiencing large volume of voter registrations...
I work for a government technology division in Massachusetts and we have noticed the town clerks across the state are sending in a lot of requests this week. I spoke with one of our people closer to the online voter registration process and she said,
"Yeah, it's really weird. People are constantly registering and then changing their parties. All the weird ones are changing to Democrat for some reason." I asked her to clarify and the example she gave is that a lot of people who are registered as independent or socialist are changing to Democrat.
She quoted me a number that this week alone there were 18,000 new requests queued into our system. The previous "record" volume was only 5,000. I can't speak fully to what this news means, but essentially it implies a surge in support for Bernie here is growing. But 18,000 isn't enough.
If you are out there reading this and you are just of voting age, I implore you. Where I work, we get a good look at how elections work. You and your needs aren't even on the grid. Take back your country -- i want this number up to 30,000+ and I want it done BEFORE the cutoff date of the 10th because, I promise you, every excuse will be used to marginalize you in favor of Hillary in this state with how much we bleed for Big Insurance and Big Pharma, and for-profit Education.
I could potentially lose my job for posting this, but I want to make a difference. I take it for granted that every day I walk through the streets the founding fathers themselves walked on, and that this state was part of the genesis of our democracy. The very foundations of our country began here -- so what better place than here, what better time than now?
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Massachusetts experiencing large volume of voter registrations... (Original Post)
Playinghardball
Feb 2016
OP
Perhaps they see the potential for Massachusetts' Elizabeth Warren as his running mate...
cascadiance
Feb 2016
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cascadiance
(19,537 posts)1. Perhaps they see the potential for Massachusetts' Elizabeth Warren as his running mate...
... and want to help make that happen, as an added reason in to registering to help him win the primaries!
brooklynite
(94,571 posts)2. If the "smoking gun" video from Des Moines is any example.....
.....I'd take an anonymous assertion of voter registration changes with a grain of salt.
cui bono
(19,926 posts)3. Bernie is growing the Democratic Party!!!
What the hell is everyone so upset about?
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