Maine voters being turned away in Portland due to high turnout.

[leftcoastmountains]

https://www.reddit.com/r/SandersForPresident/comments/498tid/maine_voters_being_turned_away_in_portland_due_to/

[djean111]

1. I don't think I will ever feel that this has been a fair primary.

Never, actually.

[2pooped2pop]

14. when a clinton or a republican is involved, it never will be a fair...anything.

they know that we will squawk and they will ignore us, and eventually it will just be forgotten.

[Fawke Em]

2. How can you turn voters away?

Isn't that illegal?

[Dragonfli]

9. Yes, it is illegal in ALL states in fact, to stop someone from performing their civic duty to vote.

[Autumn]

3. I hope someone gets that on video. That's illegal as hell.

[In_The_Wind]

4. How is this possible? Voters have a legal right to be heard.

[MissDeeds]

5. NO way is that legal!!

If anyone in Maine sees this, please tell them to stay put!! At a caucus location in KS yesterday, they found out that the line was too long and the caucus site couldn't accommodate all the people, so they quickly re-directed them to another place that could hold everyone. Everyone got to participate.

Raise hell and demand you get to vote!!!

[sarge43]

6. What the hell?!

It's not even 4pm on the east coast. Aren't the polls open until 7pm? Several of the NH polls stayed open until 8pm because high turnout.

[TIME TO PANIC]

7. This should be on video somewhere.

[Dragonfli]

8. Who decided to turn away voters and thus deny some their right to vote? Such is illegal

The that decided to do so should be arrested for election fraud and that district should be rescheduled to accommodate the rights of the voters that were disenfranchised.

Even Hillary claims to be against voter disenfranchisement and I know Bernie actually is against it rather than just claiming to be.
It appears so far that a certain amount of election fraud has been reported in most of the primary states thus far, oddly they all appear to favor Clinton, I wonder how many of those delegates were earned and how many were stolen?

I thought voter disenfranchisement was a Republican tactic, perhaps it still is and a certain "Democrat" is more Republican than her registration might suggest.

[hillarysong2016]

10. Can someone please tell voters they can call Bernie legal dept for help: 515-450-6960 & 918-587-8800

haven't tired myself but see below from twitter, she was replying to huge turnout video which was posted on DU

Helen C. ?@SFCHCP123 1h1 hour ago

@Phitter @Brains4Bern if ppl getting told to go home Bernie legal: 515-450-6960 or 918-587-8800 or Maine elections [phone] Thx
16 retweets 17 likes

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

11. Sounds like they're trying to avoid another state in which Hillary gets shut out without a single

delegate.

[bernie_FTW]

12. that is great news. I mean, I don't want them turned away...but it is a revolution

and the new start for Bernie is this weekend. Winning Kansas and Nebraska and Maine as well as almost winning in Louisiana is a huge momentum builder.

[A Little Weird]

13. I'm really not impressed by the caucus system

It seems it works best with low turnout. I've never had to stand in line more than 10 minutes to vote in a primary - I can't believe people are standing in line for hours just to get in the doors and then who knows how long to get counted.

[eridani]

15. You can file an affidavit without attending

Campaigns need to be proactive on this.

[A Little Weird]

16. I guess that would be the way to go

But I still don't see any advantage to a caucus over a primary. We should be making voting easier, not harder.

[eridani]

17. The advantage in a state like WA where there is no registration by party--

--is that Republicans don't get to pick a Democratic nominee. There should never be "one person, one vote" in a Dem primary--only one Democrat, one vote.

Another advantage is that caucuses generate new party activists. A caucus in a presidential year is a huge wave crashing on the beach. When it recedes, lots of things are left behind--by analogy those would be our new party members.