'It was just chaos': Broken machines, incomplete voter rolls leave some wondering (xpost from GD)

[KamaAina]

whether their ballots will count

http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-ca-voting-problems-20160607-snap-htmlstory.html

California voters faced a tough time at the polls Tuesday, with many voters saying they have encountered broken machines, polling sites that opened late and incomplete voter rolls, particularly in Los Angeles County.

The result? Instead of a quick in-and-out vote, many California voters were handed the dreaded pink provisional ballot — which takes longer to fill out, longer for election officials to verify and which tends to leave voters wondering whether their votes will be counted....

When Sanders supporter Brandon Silverman, 29, showed up at his polling station in Echo Park at 8:15 a.m., he said poll workers immediately handed him a provisional ballot, explaining that their machine wasn’t working yet. The full list of voters’ names for the precincts also seemed to be missing....

“I tend to agree with most of the Bernie supporters who are disappointed in the media’s handling of the superdelegate counts, but I tend to shy away from the people saying it’s ‘stolen’ or ‘rigged,’” Silverman said. “I’d like to not think the worst, but at a certain point you think, is it a coincidence?”

[deathrind]

1. As I once heard.

One coincidence is suspicious.... the second one is evidence.

[stopbush]

2. And of course it was ALL targeted to hurt Sanders voters, not anyone else.

I suppose if you announced you were voting for Hillary or Trump they escorted you to a working voting machine and treated you to a back massage while you voted.

Berners got the dreaded pink slip because the poll workers have reptilian powers and can tell who will vote for who.

Yeah, that's the ticket.