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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
But didn't you hear about the Hillary Monster who emanates corruption from her pores?
edited 19th Apr '16 3:06:08 PM by ILoveDogs
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This. There's no excessively-long lines or anything, and New York has never had both Presidential Primaries at once before - it's always been settled on one side or the other (or both!) by the time it reaches us.
Edit: Though apparently, NYC is having some rampant issues, including
a possible 120,000 voters experiencing the "My affiliation was swapped without my knowledge!" thing that Arizona ran into.
edited 19th Apr '16 4:39:26 PM by ironballs16
"Why would I inflict myself on somebody else?"An interesting video by John Green. I like him:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0ZyhPfBnNc
Bernie Sanders' campaign called reports of voting irregularities in New York "a disgrace".
NYC comptroller to audit Board of Elections amid voter irregularities.
edited 19th Apr '16 5:11:11 PM by Demonic_Braeburn
Any group who acts like morons ironically will eventually find itself swamped by morons who think themselves to be in good company.You know, given what's happened in Arizona and New York, I half expect some big pushes for voter ID from Republicans in the next few years, using those fiascos as an excuse. (I'm a little surprised they haven't started already.)
Expergiscēre cras, medior quam hodie. (Awaken tomorrow, better than today.)Forgive me for not having read through all these articles, but what does voter ID have to do with the current primary issues? Are there accusations of impersonation fraud? ID won't solve problems of people's registration information being incorrect or lost.
edited 19th Apr '16 5:22:31 PM by Fighteer
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"Hey, lack of evidence for voter fraud and disconnection of the ID requirement from any actual problems didn't stop them from pushing it anyway (and in my case, succeeding before pushback from the courts). It's just a bullshit pretext; don't think too hard about it.
GM: AGOG S4 & F/WC RP; Co-GM: TABA, SOTR, UUA RP; Sub-GM: TTS RP. I have brought peace, freedom, justice, and security to my new Empire.CNN just called NY for Trump based on exit polls alone. Clinton and Sanders are far closer.
http://www.cnn.com/2016/04/19/politics/new-york-primary-live-updates/index.html
20% like how?
Also, Elizabeth Warren is a woman after my own heart when it comes to Ted Cruz.
edited 19th Apr '16 6:17:04 PM by theLibrarian
All the Democratic states do that, the GOP is somewhat proportional but is also based on congressional districts or something.
You need 20% of the vote to get anything, which in a two horse race isn't that hard.
edited 19th Apr '16 6:17:18 PM by Rationalinsanity
Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.Ugh. I hope Trump doesn't win primaries. I don't want to vote for Hillary!
edited 19th Apr '16 6:51:56 PM by Protagonist506
Leviticus 19:34

Hanlon's Razor guys; it could be simple logistics issues at play.
Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.