Calfornia is having registration issues!

[Hell Hath No Fury]

Just saw these FB messages from two people I know here in the Bay Area.

Jake: "I applied to be a delegate at the DNC convention, but they told me I wasn't registered as a Democrat. When I called the SoS and the SF County DoE, they had me registered as a Democrat, but looking it up online it says I’m Undeclared. I had to go down to the city hall to get a signed and embossed Certificate of Registration to confirm that I am a registered Democrat. Something shady is going on."

Keith: "I just checked the San Mateo County Elections, check my registration and somehow I've been changed to NPP. Oh dear. I've been on absentee ballots since I fell ill in 2003, always Democratic. Now suddenly, I'm NPP.

Continue to get the word out about what is happening! I have been blasting FB with the message and links to sites where you can check your registration. We have a lot of work to do!

[yourpaljoey]

1. Dirty tricks!

[onecaliberal]

2. Please make sure to check.

California voter registration information.

http://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/voter-registration/

Edit to add that I just checked mine and its fine. There is still time to rectify any problems.

[gsb54]

36. Great LINK - I will pass it on.

California is delegate rich.

Must have accurate voting!

[yourout]

3. No way these are all coincidence....no way.

Is California a closed primary?

[FreakinDJ]

5. yep

[RepubliCON-Watch]

9. Technically...

You can vote as an unaffiliated voter.

[mrdmk]

24. A registered unaffiliated (independent) voter in California can request Democratic or Republican

ballot on election day. It is up to the political parties to allow for voter to do this. A voter can also request a absentee ballot, the only requirement is, it needs to be done in advance.

Here is the official wording from the Activist-Registration-Guide-1.pdf from the Californian Democratic Party Website:

4. Q I’m an independent, can I vote in the primary?
A In this state, if a political party allows independents (Decline to State) to vote in its
primary, they may do so, but must choose only one such party. In California, the
Democratic and Republican parties allow this. When you sign in to vote in your polling place,
ask for a primary ballot for the party.

link: http://www.cadem.org/our-party/our-county-committees/body/Activist-Registration-Guide-1.pdf

The California primary was an open primary until 2011 or something like that until a court ruling said they needed to change the rules and the syntax. So technically, California has a close primary. This is what proposed and done to fix the courts requirements.

[lostnfound]

29. Not "Independent" -- only "No party preference" -- can vote

These laws are so confusing. In Arizona it said you can vote in the primary if you are independent but buried on a different page it said you CANNOT vote in Presidential Preference poll.

[HooptieWagon]

27. Registration problems in FL, ILL, AZ, and now CA.

I wonder who has the national Dem database?

[FreakinDJ]

4. Not quite a 50 State strategy but a strategy none the less

Hillary and DWS have sought to exclude Millennials from the beginning

they are merely becoming more transparent now

[TBF]

11. They are toast in November -

the progressives of the party are not going to reward this BS with a victory. This is not only suppression but sabotage. All responsible should be put in jail.

[ladjf]

6. Here we go again. They've only had about 150 years to work out the system.

If we'll just be patient, I'm sure that within anther 300 years they will solve this registration problem.

[yourout]

10. I wish Bernie would just come out and say.....

"There are people that don't want you to vote for me and will put up as many hurdles as they can so double check your affiliation and tell them to stick it by voting for Bernie"

[ladjf]

12. He pretty much said all of that in his interview with Cenk on the Young Turks.

That tape is in several posts on DU today and yesterday. Wonderful tape of Bernie discussing
our situation and what we should do about it.

[SoapBox]

7. Ok...

I wondered what an earlier post was about.

Phewww...where to start. Definitly the local Registrar's Office but what about the Governor's Office too?

I looked mine up for Los Angeles County and it looked correct.

Devil's Advocate in me says...it's more a case of the offices fucking with the databases...software changes, sort changes, etc., idiots that don't know what they are doing...that mucks things up...at least in the most populace areas.

Smaller counties...uhm, good question.

[TBF]

13. "idiots that don't know what they are doing"

It happens once or twice, yeah. But state after state - person after person after person? And it only affects folks who are independent and want to vote for democrats in this primary season?

They're not stupid. They're assholes, but they're not stupid. They know EXACTLY what they are doing.

[Dragonfli]

19. It is also happening to long time Democrats that had their party affiliation changed to no party

It is worse than you think, oddly, it only appears to be happening with regards to this years Democratic promary voters, have not heard of other parties having such problems.

It has so far only affected Sanders supporters which makes me wonder many things.

[TBF]

25. Yup.

[HooptieWagon]

28. Yep.

Mighty strange how all these lifetime Democrats are mysteriously being switched to Ind in state after state.

[Csainvestor]

8. Same for me

I voted 12 and 14 registered democratic, the system is unable to fire me. I am not in the system.

[oldandhappy]

14. @%$*%

This is not OK. But sincerely -- thank you for the heads up. Will check.

[oldandhappy]

15. just checked and I am OK

[malokvale77]

16. So...

it's not just bad acting in GOP states. Hmm, who could be pulling all these strings.

[TBF]

26. ...

[jalan48]

17. Big money doesn't want a progressive agenda.

[Dragonfli]

18. NYS is having the same problems (unfixable here) where the database used for primary rolls

Has somehow changed for many regarding party affiliation, like in Arizona, the only ones affected are Democrats that were changed to no party (meaning no primary vote) In NY nothing can be done about it, since they have rules now that say if you re register now (today is the deadline) any party affiliation will not take effect until next election.

This happening in AZ was not due to Republicans even if long lines were, what would they gain from letting Democrats vote in a Democratic primary? NOTHING. What is happening in NY is irreparable damage to Democrats disallowing them to vote Sanders.

Make sure, that you can be able to vote in the primary, even if little debs friends keep taking you off the primary rolls later on,. I hope you have same day registration there including party affiliation as NY is already being stolen as I believe was AZ.

A certificate may not be enough because the use the database to place you on the rolls at one's polling place, people in Arizona tried showing written proof of party affiliation bt were told if they were not in the computer they could not vote on the Democratic primary! They could ,eave a provisional ballot, but it would not be counted if the computer showed them as unaffiliated.

IOW the are cheating in an unexpected way, one they made sure could not be remedied in NYS, I hope it can be remedied in California, there was/is no remedy for this form of cheating in Arizona.

Check until the last minute yo can register with a party affiliation that counts in this primary.

This is some really large spread cheating and in some places is proving to be iron clad un fixable.

Be careful Cali Berners, don't let your State be stoilen like mine is and Arizona appears to have been.

[All in it together]

21. Is Hillary's team purging the party of Bernie Dems?

It is very suspicious

[hopemountain]

33. this is perplexing because

then, would bernie's dems not be able to vote for her in the general - if that is what they are aiming for? they are shooting themselves in the foot!!!

[Aquavit]

20. They just don't care, do they?

This kind of crap is going to crater the Democratic Party for a generation!!

[2banon]

22. I saw the alert earlier this morning posted by redddit and so I checked my voter profile

using the link they provided. and i checked out ok, however I did have a question so I called the contact number (Alameda County) and I swear, we're talking seriously incompetent people. "Couldn't find me in the system" was told to me, at the same moment I'm looking at me in the system she can't seem to find. O.M.G. I started to freak out that she couldn't me, it turns out she's being trained and a supervisor got on the line and found my profile.

So you know what I did next? I told them I'm interested in working the polls and they asked me if i wanted to be an Inspector, Judge or Clerk. LOL. I couldn't believe it. I almost went for Inspector, but I said Judge and that I wanted to work on the Island where I live, so i got the job, and that I'll be receiving training materials in the mail in a couple of weeks.

I'm thinking all they know about me is that I told them I've worked as a poll worker in previous elections in a different county (Sonoma) and that I knew (by voting) the two districts were completely different in methodology. I guess that qualified! Wow. All I can say is, this explains a lot of why our "elections" are so f**cked up.

[Duckfan]

23. Doesn't someone in Sacramento have authority to fix these issues?

[Matt_in_STL]

30. I'd like to see someone match up all the complaints of voter changes with Bernie stats

See if there are records of their support for Bernie (i.e. donations, volunteer work, etc.) that could have been exploited to determine which changes should be made.

[noamnety]

31. still happening in NY, too.

From an online friend yesterday:

"I've been a registered Dem in NY for about 14-15 years.

I updated my address 1/29 of this year, got confirmation from the DMV for my voter registration, then received a mailer from the Board of Elections saying I was good to go and showing me my polling place, then reconfirmed online via:

voterlookup.elections.state.ny.us

That I was all good to go.

This morning, I was not found in the voter registry. I reregistered (and now show up in the search) and sent a letter to the Attorney General. If you think you're registered, check. Last day to register and vote in the Primary is tomorrow, I believe. It's far too late to change affiliations. If you weren't purged, but instead somehow your affiliation was switched, you're likely to get proper fucked here. "

[HereSince1628]

32. Makes a person wonder about those candidate data-breaches on the DNCs system.

[aspirant]

34. Why doesn't Bernie get a complete registration list

for each upcoming state primary and have phone bankers calling all who were Dems before and have now been changed to Repub, Indy or non-affliated.

This should be a top priority for all those not paying attention now. If they have been changed without their consent isn't this election fraud and the campaign must file suit.

NY, Penn. Cal. and MD are all being hyped by the Hillsters. maybe a good place to start.

[ALittleBirdie]

35. Would anyone know if Bernie's campaign is doing something about this?

This has turned into a pattern that could cost him the election!