Democratic Party officials in Puerto Rico Cut June 5th Primary Polling Places from 1,510 to 455!

[imagine2015]

The Hill
Sanders supporters up in arms over Puerto Rico polling locations
by Rebecca Savransky
May 29, 2016

Supporters of Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders are up in arms about the number of polling locations in place for the Puerto Rico primary.

A Sanders supporter tweeted on Sunday that three weeks ago, Puerto Rico had 1,510 polling locations in place for the Democratic primary, but now, it has just 455.

A reddit page created by Sanders For President said that the cuts were "about as bad as Arizona." Several supporters of Sanders were fired up over the cuts.

The commonwealth initially had 1,510 polling locations. But on Friday, it announced it was cutting back its polling locations to 455 ahead of the June 5 primary.



http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/sanders-supporters-up-in-arms-over-puerto-rico-polling-locations/ar-BBtCm6A?ocid=spartandhp

The obvious purpose is to reduce the turnout of voters in the Democratic Party which will help Clinton's campaign. They prefer low voter participation and exclusionary primaries. imagine2015

[oberliner]

1. "The obvious purpose is to reduce the turnout of voters"

That is definitely not the obvious purpose.

[AtomicKitten]

12. whatever the stated purpose, the end result is voter suppression

and that's never good in a democracy

[KingFlorez]

2. blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah

Sanders isn't going to win Puerto Rico, even if they gave each Sanders voter their own polling place. It's not demographically suited for him.

[Ash_F]

4. Sanders is against the horrific debt proposal that lowers their minimum wage

and takes away their overtime.

[nadinbrzezinski]

6. I know you do not give a shit about voting

Just don't complain when this goes against you. The word I am looking for is hypocrisy, and I expect it

This is telling about the Democratic Party, and not in a nice way

[Wilms]

3. Roberto Prats -Chairman of the Democratic Party in Puerto Rico

Senator Roberto Prats became the Popular Democratic Party's nomineee for Resident Commissioner for the upcoming elections, which he lost to Luis Fortuño, despite a big boost for his congressional campaign, when the Democratic National Committee (DNC) Chairman Terry McAuliffe endorsed him in March 2004. He subsequently was elected State Chair of the Democratic Party in Puerto Rico, a position he currently holds, under DNC Chairmen Howard Dean, with whom he also has a close relationship...

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One of Puerto Rico's "superdelegates", Prats announced his support in January 2008 of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's presidential bid and served, along with then-Puerto Rico Senate President Kenneth McClintock, as co-chair of her Hispanic Leadership Council, in spite of his former running mate's (Gov. Acevedo Vilá's) endorsement of Sen. Barack Obama. Prats and McClintock co-chaired Clinton's successful June 1, 2008 primary campaign in the U.S. territory.

In 2009, Prats was elected a member of the DNC's Executive Committee, the highest ranking Puerto Rican within the Democratic National Committee.

In November 2010, he coauthored a book on the 2008 Hillary Clinton campaign in Puerto Rico with McClintock, now Secretary of State.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roberto_Prats

[CorporatistNation]

5. How Pathetic! Maybe He Likes The Way Secretary Clinton Explains Herself....?

MSNBC To the deniers... Watch THIS Video... It is not comforting to think that she may well be the Democratic Nominee...

Hillary really betrayed Andrea Mitchell... The entire context of this report was of a solemn nature... A Funeral so to speak...

Andrea Mitchell "I do not see this report as ...ANYTHING BUT... DEVASTATING!"

Chuck Todd "After this I don't think that she could get confirmed for Attorney General!"

Lots of FIBBING by Hillary here.. for more than a year!

[imagine2015]

7. That figures.

[hrmjustin]

8. Aren't primaries run by the goverment and not the party?

[pmorlan1]

9. Sorry Bernie

you are wrong. It IS rigged.

[hrmjustin]

10. They did the same thing in RI and Bernie still win big there.

[Tarc]

11. Probably a good idea, given their economic woes at the moment

The primary will be wrapped up by then.

Also, 1,500 polling places seems like quite a lot, given PR's geographical size.

[Scuba]

13. We can't afford democraacy. Yeah, that's it!

[BernieforPres2016]

14. That makes a lot of sense

It's not like there is anything going on in Puerto Rico that might cause a higher than normal voter turnout, other than pending bankruptcy and the austerity to make banksters whole program.

If this primary is over why does the DNC keep rigging it?