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Related: About this forumSanders’ Campaign Alleges Fraud in Puerto Rico Presidential Primary
SAN JUAN With just hours before the start of the presidential primaries in Puerto Rico, members of Sen. Bernie Sanders team accused the leadership of the local Democratic Party of fraud, saying they have hindered the certification process of their voting center officials.
The Hispanic vote director for the campaign of the Vermont senator, Betsy Franceschini, denounced a series of irregularities that her work team faced Friday, while thousands of inmates in the islands correctional facilities exercised their right to an early ballot.
Our Bernie Sanders officials were never certified. We had 40 officials we submitted in time for the prisons. Not one of them was certified, while all of theirs [Hillary Clintons] went in. Attorney Manny Suárez had to go in order for us to be let in. This is a great fraud, Franceschini said in a phone interview with Caribbean Business.
In an internal press release CB obtained Friday morning, a group of Sanders officials claimed that the president of the local Democratic Party, Roberto Prats, and its elections commissioner, Ramón López de Azúa, are holding back the certifications of Bernie Sanders voting center officials.
The Hispanic vote director for the campaign of the Vermont senator, Betsy Franceschini, denounced a series of irregularities that her work team faced Friday, while thousands of inmates in the islands correctional facilities exercised their right to an early ballot.
Our Bernie Sanders officials were never certified. We had 40 officials we submitted in time for the prisons. Not one of them was certified, while all of theirs [Hillary Clintons] went in. Attorney Manny Suárez had to go in order for us to be let in. This is a great fraud, Franceschini said in a phone interview with Caribbean Business.
In an internal press release CB obtained Friday morning, a group of Sanders officials claimed that the president of the local Democratic Party, Roberto Prats, and its elections commissioner, Ramón López de Azúa, are holding back the certifications of Bernie Sanders voting center officials.
http://cb.pr/bernie-sanders-camp-reports-fraud-in-the-puerto-rico-presidential-primary/
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Sanders’ Campaign Alleges Fraud in Puerto Rico Presidential Primary (Original Post)
leftcoastmountains
Jun 2016
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merrily
(45,251 posts)1. Apparently, Betsy is unaware of the DU wisdom that alleging fraud in primaries is sexist.
I wish all women, at least all American women, and men would get with the program.
EVERYthing in this primary has been sexist
leftcoastmountains
(2,968 posts)3. Staying mostly in the Bernie group
I think I missed all that. I wasn't sure what you were talking about.
I had to go back reread the article and then reread your post. I finally
realized it's because I don't go to GD-P much and rarely Hill group.
I tend to have a narrow focus sometimes. I think it saves me
annoyance and stress by avoiding those places!
nxylas
(6,440 posts)2. It's a right-wing smear!
That seems to be the standard line from the click farm right now.