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sandensea

(21,529 posts)
Thu Feb 6, 2020, 01:14 PM Feb 2020

Trump Fans Flooded Iowa Caucus Hotline, Democrats Say

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Source: Bloomberg

Supporters of President Donald Trump flooded a hotline used by Iowa precinct chairs to report Democratic caucus results after the telephone number was posted online, worsening delays in the statewide tally, a top state Democrat told party leaders on a conference call Wednesday night.

According to two participants on the call, Ken Sagar, a state Democratic central committee member, was among those answering the hotline on caucus night and said people called in and expressed support for Trump.

The phone number became public after people posted photos of caucus paperwork that included the hotline number, one of the people on the call said.

Read more: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-02-06/trump-fans-flooded-iowa-caucus-hotline-top-democrat-says





Caucus precinct chairs input results during Tuesday's Iowa vote.

The accidental public posting of the hotline number led to GOP efforts to flood phone lines, thereby further delaying reporting of results.
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SWBTATTReg

(21,859 posts)
1. Isn't the gop supposed to be above the law, and so forth? Obviously not. Remember this,
Thu Feb 6, 2020, 01:20 PM
Feb 2020

people. When our time comes, these scumbags have no respect for the rule of law, especially when it comes to them. Give no quarter, give nothing to these a&&h*les.

Disgusting behavior.

sandensea

(21,529 posts)
3. Exactly. There's NOTHING we can put past these miscreants.
Thu Feb 6, 2020, 01:21 PM
Feb 2020

We should expect a November to remember, in these sense of GOPee shenanigans.

bucolic_frolic

(42,673 posts)
2. malicious use of public communications
Thu Feb 6, 2020, 01:21 PM
Feb 2020

and never a doubt from the get go. Anyone who didn't see this coming is naive and negligent.

sandensea

(21,529 posts)
4. And there's only one shoe left to drop:
Thu Feb 6, 2020, 01:23 PM
Feb 2020

News that the app and/or servers used in Iowa were thoroughly hacked.

Initech

(99,914 posts)
5. These assholes are why we can't have nice things.
Thu Feb 6, 2020, 01:23 PM
Feb 2020

MissKat

(218 posts)
6. The only fair thing left to do
Thu Feb 6, 2020, 01:34 PM
Feb 2020

Is divide the delegates up evenly between all the candidates.

This entire process was sabotaged. Of that, there is no doubt. Probably right out of Vlad's School of Rule. They wanted to show it could be corrupted.

Even if they held it again, it wouldn't help. Nope. Wipe the slate. Divide the delegates and do away with the caucus system.

Ballots and paper trails.

Initech

(99,914 posts)
7. Their goal is to cause chaos wherever possible.
Thu Feb 6, 2020, 01:39 PM
Feb 2020

Trump is an agent of chaos, and causes it wherever he goes. If there's something that can be disrupted, anything, he and his supporters will disrupt it. They're like the Joker from the Dark Knight.

yaesu

(8,020 posts)
8. a criminal organisation can do anything it wants when it controls the JD & the courts.
Thu Feb 6, 2020, 01:44 PM
Feb 2020

its called capitalistic fascism

rickyhall

(4,889 posts)
9. More reason to kill the caucus system, too many weaknesses.
Thu Feb 6, 2020, 02:08 PM
Feb 2020

I'm for all primaries on the same day.

JudyM

(29,122 posts)
10. Locking
Thu Feb 6, 2020, 02:40 PM
Feb 2020

All OPs about the primaries or candidates => Dem Primaries forum.

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