2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Is anybody going to talk about the claim about Sanders possibly winning California? [View all]Demsrule86
(68,469 posts)USA Daily Politics cited a blog post by investigative journalist Greg Palast to support its claim that a majority of provisional ballots were discarded. However, that claim was addressed and largely debunked the next day, when Dean Logan of the Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk addressed fears of uncounted provisional ballots on Twitter and stated that most would probably be deemed valid and added to totals:
8 Jun
Julio Newman @writingnewman
.@LACountyRRCC how certain will provisional ballots be counted? Many reports of outdated voting rolls, forcing dems to vote provisionally
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Dean Logan, RR/CC ✔ @LACountyRRCC
@writingnewman All provisional ballots will be processed; those validated will be counted. Historically, 85-90% are determined valid.
From Snopes...all ballots will be counted and Sanders still loses. Also Clinton did not even need California, and it is clear that supers have moved so he has no hope of winning period. Move on.