'It was just chaos': Broken machines, incomplete voter rolls..."

[babylonsister]

'It was just chaos': Broken machines, incomplete voter rolls leave some wondering whether their ballots will count
By Matt Pearce



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.

This year’s presidential primary race has already been one of the most bitter in recent memory. Before Tuesday’s vote, Bernie Sanders supporters accused the media of depressing Democratic turnout by calling the nomination for Hillary Clinton before polls opened in California.

Those feelings haven’t gotten any less raw Tuesday as hundreds of Californians complained of voting problems to the national nonpartisan voter hotline run by the Lawyers’ Committee For Civil Rights Under Law.

It’s difficult to get a sense for how widespread the problems are or how they compare to recent elections. But experts said the culprit for Tuesday’s voting problems seems to be a confluence of factors — old voting machines, a competitive election that has drawn new voters, plus complex state voting laws that can be hard for poll volunteers and voters to follow.

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

[gordianot]

1. People just need to quit complaining about voting.

Rest assured after all government has your best interests in mind.

[panader0]

2. I have become convinced that primaries exist only to give the common folk

the illusion that they have a democracy. Hell, GEs too.

[kstewart33]

3. Problems and any alleged conspiracies can't erase a 13 point victory for Clinton.

Democrats nationwide have spoken. Let's move on to the general election campaign.

[LexVegas]

4. Is Obama a fraud to you guys too? He won using the same system in '08. nt

[Demsrule86]

5. More excuses from the Sander campaign. nt

[vintx]

6. K&R

By ignoring this, the DNC is just ensuring more and more people will leave this party.

[d_legendary1]

7. I'll never understand why its so hard to set up a voting precinct

I mean they have months in advance to plan the damn thing, allocated the sources for it, and train people on the rules for running the joint. Elections are not new things in this country and you'd think by now that they would get it right. If the machines break have contingencies on hand to keep the process going.

Its almost as if they don't want for us to vote.

[Beacool]

8. Wait....wait.....it's coming.

I guess some here are going to complain how this only affected Sanders' voters. I guess Hillary's voters were shown to some secret machines that were not available to the Sanders' voters.

[MinnesotaRob]

10. the problem is we'll never know.

This idea that it's no big deal because it probably affects everyone equally is ridiculous. Clinton and Sanders supporters are not the same demographics, suppression will absolutely affect one group disproportionately. If that were not the case why would the Republicans even bother?

[Waiting For Everyman]

9. This election has no validity

and everybody except the partisans knows it. They're only fooling themselves.