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2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Provisional Ballot Numbers Released in Maricopa County, Arizona [View all]geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)29. do you want Republicans helping choose who our nominee is?
Open primaries are why the Republicans are stuck with Donald Trump.
it's pretty simple--Democrats should choose their own nominee. If someone turns their nose up at being a Democrat, then why should they help choose our leaders?
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Provisional Ballot Numbers Released in Maricopa County, Arizona [View all]
Land of Enchantment
Mar 2016
OP
The concern is that some eligible voters were marked as ineligible due to errors by the state
hellofromreddit
Mar 2016
#17
sure, and that's why there were around 4-5,000 provisional ballots that were accepted
geek tragedy
Mar 2016
#18
because Independents don't care about the health and success of the party.
geek tragedy
Mar 2016
#31
They never directly addressed that--it was a short comment period for audience members, then a brief
Land of Enchantment
Mar 2016
#8
That's because many of those were Independents who wouldn't listen when they were
Pisces
Mar 2016
#7
Oy Vey. No doubt, but a big part of that failing was the county blamed an election
Land of Enchantment
Mar 2016
#12
Has anyone seen or heard whether the national corporate media conglomerates have covered
Uncle Joe
Mar 2016
#19
My pleasure, Uncle Joe. Nope, nothing on the MSM and I'm not expecting to see anything until
Land of Enchantment
Mar 2016
#21
This confirms they need to do a recount or have an extra day of voting...n/t
blueintelligentsia
Mar 2016
#20
18,322 of the 20,008 were the result of registration flipping. The Recorder's Office
Land of Enchantment
Mar 2016
#40
They're only counting provisional ballots if they can prove by looking through their own database
Time for change
Mar 2016
#41
I think that the fact that they could find 113 disenfranchised Bernie voters and only 2
Time for change
Mar 2016
#45