Today's primaries already a shit show

[mikelgb]

Link to tweet

Edit to add: I'm not complaining / commenting on behalf of the Sander's campaign. ALL voters should be able to vote. I fully expect Biden to win the IL primary regardless of the issues here. Didn't mean to give y'all the vapors! lol

edit 2:
If I posted this thread with Biden flair, would the responses be the same?

DU used to be concerned about voter disenfranchisement.

[rzemanfl]

1. Where? n/t

[mikelgb]

9. Looks like a Chicago precinct according to the twitter user's location

[rzemanfl]

19. Thank you. I was assuming Florida, because, well, Floriduh. n/t

[mitch96]

21. I voted in Fla.. Smooth as glass at 10AM.

Walked in, no line...showed my ID... got my verification paper, gave that in and got the ballot, voted, stuck it in the machine. They had Purell at the exit. Job done...
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[Blue_true]

23. Except for Broward and Palm Beach Counties, vote in Florida seem to go smoothly.

Hillsborough had issues, but seem to have cleared them up. Broward and Hillborough were at the center of the infamous "hanging chad" recount in 2000. Both had extraneous local stuff on their ballot that made the ballots unwieldy. My county typically keeps local issues off national level ballots, except when something unexpected happens and a local vote needs to be added.

[mitch96]

25. "Except for Broward "

Au contraire mon cher......... I'm in Broward.... Smooth as glass.. Actually I've never had any problems in my home town.. YMMV..
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[Blue_true]

27. I am up in Marion.

When the shit hits the fan, like in 2000 and 2018, we always hear about issues with Broward ballots, stuff like butterfly ballots, multi-page ballots with lots of stuff being on the ballot. In Marion, our national level ballots are clean, no local offices or issues are on them, except in a few urgent cases where something unexpected happened and the national level ballot was the quickest way to get a vote done - I like that type of organization.

[mitch96]

29. " I am up in Marion."

Love it up there... I'm selling down here in Broward and moving to Pinellas County/Dunedin.
Broward has had it's problems. Won't deny it. Poor leadership. Same for Palm Beach..
This time it went well. Maybe my town got it's act together...
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[Blue_true]

31. You will be moving in to the west of my, toward the Gulf.

The great thing about this area of Florida is that if you like land around your home, you can get it. Even if you live in the "country", shopping and dining is always close by. The downside is that it is redder than what you are used to, but it has moderated big in the last decade.

[MoonlitKnight]

32. That was Pinellas in 2000

Not Hillsborough.

Also Palm Beach with the butterfly ballot.

[NCProgressive]

2. Bernie is losing because a blue box didn't arrive?

[mikelgb]

11. neither candidate is able to receive votes from this precinct n/t

[Sloumeau]

3. So, because one site has problems, it means everything is a "s*** show" ? Seriously? nt

[Demsrule86]

8. They got to try to fix it so the Bern can stay in ...and promote his revolution that most don't give

a damn about...we just want to move to the General and have Sanders return to the Senate...where he should be busy saving the economy.

[mikelgb]

12. fair enough, at least in this precinct it is

anecdotally I have also heard of an IL voter (unknown precinct) who said their polling place was empty; no poll workers showed up.

[jimfields33]

15. Looks like Ohio was brilliant

[OKNancy]

4. I did a twitter search of Illinois primary

There is only one group complaining

[mikelgb]

13. disenfranchised voters?

[NCProgressive]

14. Just because one's candidate is losing doesn't mean voters are disenfranchised.

[OKNancy]

16. No

Most voters having no problems. The only ones complaining have a rose in their name.
Now, some could be trolls and not really rose people.

[William769]

24. Sanders supporters!

[grossproffit]

5. Each state voting today has early voting. I mailed my AZ ballot in weeks ago.

Deadlines:
Flordia is 10 days prior to election.
Ohio was this past Saturday.
Arizona is 10 days prior to election.

[tirebiter]

6. No provisional voting?

Proof of purchase is important.

[Demsrule86]

7. Really...is that going to be Bernie's excuse this time...for a double digit loss or will he accept

that people just aren't that into him.

[mikelgb]

18. I am not Bernie Sanders. I don't work for his campaign.

[Demsrule86]

10. In your dreams...it will be fixed and folks will vote...already huge numbers had already vote...bet

they didn't vote for Sanders much.

[LuvLoogie]

17. My poling place in Chicago was fine.

Two people at each of three precincts at 7 this morning. I didn't notice if there were more poll workers on duty. There probably were.

[Sloumeau]

20. The rebecca above wrote that she wasn't old enough to vote,

yet she keeps making comments about what is allegedly happening at a polling place. What is she doing there if she is not even old enough to vote? Let me guess, mom is working at the polling place and mom made rebecca come, so now rebecca is all pouty and throwing shade everywhere. Oh, rebecca's twitter tail led to this tweet:

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">If you or any family member gets sick with covid19 from voting because the Democratic Party did not to listen to the safety precautions set by the CDC, sue immediately sue<br><br>Class action lawsuit <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/OhioPrimary?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#OhioPrimary</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/COVID19?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#COVID19</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/DemocraticPrimary?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#DemocraticPrimary</a></p>— ✩ BlindedByLight ☆ ☼︎ (@FemaleBernieBro) <a href="

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?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 17, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

It's as if the Bernie supporters all decided that they really do not want today's primary to take place. Why would that be, I wonder?

[oasis]

22. A self identified, "FemaleBernieBro" winning hearts and minds.

[samnsara]

26. you guys need mail in ballots!!!!!

[msongs]

28. is Bernie's youth army turning out en mass to save the day??????????????????????????????? nt

[LanternWaste]

30. DU is indeed, concerned with voter disenfranchisement

But I certainly understand why, when Sanders is doing so poorly, you imply it's not a concern anymore... a political bias can compel us to abuse critical thought and allege others of having "the vapors y'all!"