2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: In PA, Jill Stein waited till the last minute, likely won't have enough volunteers [View all]pnwmom
(109,562 posts)All he would have had to do was "investigate" the Secretary of State's website, where anyone could view the counting -- of all the separate categories of ballots -- while it was going on.
Or he could have consulted Snopes.
http://www.snopes.com/uncounted-california-ballots/
"USA Daily Politics cited a blog post by investigative journalist Greg Palast to support its claim that a majority of provisional ballots were discarded. However, that claim was addressed and largely debunked the next day, when Dean Logan of the Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk addressed fears of uncounted provisional ballots on Twitter and stated that most would probably be deemed valid and added to totals.
https://www.lavote.net/home/voting-elections/voting-options/at-the-polls/provisional-voting
Past election records show that on average 85-90% of provisional ballots are valid and counted.
So he lied about CA not counting provisional votes, and he lied about Bernie winning CA:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2016/06/22/californias-lengthy-vote-count-stokes-theories-that-sanders-actually-won-the-primary/
"I can tell you this: Senator Sanders won California," Palast said. "Let me do the math for you. Most of those late mailed-in ballots were what are called NPP, No Party Preference. These independent ballots were the ones that came in late because people had to switch their ballots. Its a complex process, in California, thats all I can tell you. The late ballots are Sanders ballots."