The New Yorker: Bernie Sanders has spent decades attacking inequality. Now the country is listening

[Stevepol]

13. one thing I'm concerned about:

Bernie it seems to me has the right side of nearly all the issues he talks about. The problem is that he tends to ignore anything that seems tangential to the areas of policy he has studied and sincerely wants to change for the better.

What will happen if and when the result of the primary campaign does not reflect the exit polling or the polling in general? I suspect he will do exactly what most Democrats do these days,i.e., just accept this as part of the "democratic" process and since he loves democracy so much, he will (I'm afraid) just accept defeat. What he doesn't realize is that the counting of votes is even more corrupt than politics in general, and the fair counting of votes is even more essential to the democratic process than keeping money out of it or being ignored by the media so the issues don't get addressed. Unless the votes are counted fairly, IT'S IMPOSSIBLE TO HAVE A DEMOCRACY. IMPOSSIBLE!!!!!

If you want to have the society that most people want, YOU HAVE TO VERIFY THE VOTE!!

An even better idea would be to have HAND-COUNTED PAPER BALLOTS for all elections, but since we have apparently fallen in love with shiny new, but trivially easy to rig, voting machines, absolutely the least we can do is to VERIFY THE VOTE. That means regular, adequate, required "audits" and rules that if there is a substantial statistical anomaly, the whole election must be re-counted ON PAPER BY HAND.