Racist Voters Cost Trump Two Illinois Delegates with ‘Foreign’ Sounding Names

[big_dog]

Source: The Raw Story 16 MAR 2016 10:31 ET TRAVIS GETTY

Racist voters may have cost Donald Trump at least two delegates in Illinois. The state uses a complicated system to choose its delegates, who are awarded when voters select a candidate and then choose delegates representing them on the ballot. Trump won the Illinois GOP primary, but rivals Ted Cruz and John Kasich picked up a couple of delegates at the Republican National Convention that the frontrunner should have won but didn’t.

David Wasserman, of Cook Political Report, first noticed that two Trump delegates with South Asian names ran far behind delegates for his rivals.In the 6th Congressional District outside Chicago, two Trump delegates named Paul Minch and Barbara Kois won with more than 35,000 votes each.

A third Trump delegate candidate, Nabi Fakroddin, received just 30,639 votes – which allowed Pat Brady, a Kasich delegate and former state party chairman, to move past him and take the RNC slot. In the 13th District, a Trump delegate Doug Hartmann won nearly 32,000 votes and two Cruz delegates won nearly 31,000 votes to claim the next two slots.

Raja Sadia, a Trump delegate, garnered just over 24,000 votes. Wasserman also noted that a Trump delegate with a black-sounding name received significantly fewer votes than two candidates named James Devors and Rita Gaus. Taneequa Tolbert will attend the RNC, but she received about 1,300 fewer votes than Devors and about 800 votes fewer than Gaus.

Read more: https://www.rawstory.com/2016/03/racist-voters-cost-trump-two-illinois-delegates-with-foreign-sounding-names/

[Wounded Bear]

1. Aw, gee....couldn't happen to a nicer guy...

Literally.

[muriel_volestrangler]

2. Except Cruz got more votes than Trump in the 13th District

Ignoring what people may or may not have thought about the names, here are the votes for District 13:

Max Winners=3
Name Party Votes Vote %
Hartmann/Trump, Doug GOP 31,937 12%
Kammer/Cruz, James GOP 30,588 12%
Strang/Cruz, Mark GOP 30,341 12%
Kammer/Cruz, Nicholas GOP 28,608 11%
Gauen/Trump, Toni GOP 28,337 11%
Sadiq/Trump, Raja GOP 24,303 9%

total Trump: 84,577
total Cruz: 89,537

So if the votes for each candidate's delegates have been spread evenly, Cruz would have got all 3, and Trump none. By having more support for 'Hartmann', Trump got 1 seat. And notice the Cruz delegate candidates included 2 Kammers - 1 was selected, 1 wasn't.

If these delegates really are unknowns, and the process asks voters to pick just one as their 'favorite' for that candidate, you'll get loads of random fluctuations. Or they are known to some voters, in which case they may have genuine reasons for putting one above another.

On edit:
I see that this system allowed them to vote for up to 3 delegates. In that case, you would have expected the 3 possible delegates allied to each candidate to get the same - unless voters really did decide to take a particular disliking to some of them (racism might explain Sadiq loss of votes, but what did Nicholas Kammer do to get nearly 2,000 fewer votes than James Kammer?). Or there are voters who like splitting their vote.

[IronLionZion]

3. I'm thankful that my family gave me a white sounding name

my life has probably been easier in situations where people would just go by name and not know what I look like.

And yes, Trump deserves to be screwed by his own supporters' racism.

[Wash. state Desk Jet]

4. Hello Big Dog The Donald here ! FUCK TRUMP

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