Did New York’s Voting Problems Hurt Hillary Clinton?

[Dem2]

Sam Frizell @Sam_Frizell April 20, 2016

When Gemma Gonsalves gave her name at a public school off of Brooklyn’s Ocean Parkway, she was expecting to be ushered in quickly to vote.

But she said poll workers said she wasn’t listed in the voter rolls, telling her to go to a nearby courthouse and come back with a court order to vote. Already running late for her job cutting hair at a local Supercuts, she left and never did cast a ballot in the Democratic primary.

“I’ve been in this country more than fifty years,” says Gonsalves, an immigrant from Trinidad who voted for John McCain in 2008 and Barack Obama in 2012 at the same polling place. “It’s just so baffling.”

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Both the Sanders and the Clinton campaigns are crying foul, but it may be the Clinton campaign that suffered the most. The areas where the most votes were lost was in Brooklyn—which she won with 60% of the vote, better than throughout the state as a whole.

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A total of 1.82 million people cast votes in New York. If tens of thousands of people were unable to vote, it could have meant a swing of a handful of delegates for either Clinton or Sanders. The voter affidavits have not been counted, so it is not clear which candidate they may have benefited. Still, most of the voters stricken from the registers lived in neighborhoods that were favorable to Clinton, based on Tuesday night’s results.

Gonsalves, at least, had been planning to vote for Clinton.

http://time.com/4301762/new-york-voting-problems-hillary-clinton/

I don't think we actually know which candidate may have been harmed by this voter purge, perhaps we'll have a better idea after the affidavits have been counted.

[oldandhappy]

1. evidently not

What is she going to do about the fact that independents and others disenfranchised on Tuesday WILL be allowed to vote in the GE?

[geek tragedy]

3. closed primaries are not a form of disenfranchisement.

the early party switch deadline is really bad, but independents knowingly exclude themselves from our primaries when they refuse to register with a party.


Everyone here understands this.

[geek tragedy]

2. if they filled out affidavit ballots and it turns out they should

have been allowed to cast a regular ballot, their vote will count.

Absentee ballots haven't been counted yet so there could be some shifts in the vote (likely favoring Clinton)

[ViseGrip]

4. So far, no one obtaining an affidavit from the judge complained about not being able to vote for Hil