“He hasn’t just come to this fight, he has been fighting for these issues for his entire life,” she said. “He did this when it was least convenient, he paid the highest political cost.”
Archiv: rigged US Democratic Party presidential election primaries 2020 / zombie democrats vs Bernie Sanders / Iowa fraud / scorched democracy tactic
Sanders: Bloomberg Doesn’t Have The Right To Buy This Election, „Obscene“ That He Skipped Early States
SANDERS: You know, we pride ourselves on being the longest-standing democracy in the world. And we’re proud of that. To me, what that means, one person, one vote. If you want to run for president, you run for president. You’ve got good ideas, maybe you win, maybe you don’t win.
But I do think it’s a bit obscene that we have somebody who, by the way, chose not to contest in Iowa, in Nevada, in South Carolina, in New Hampshire where all of the candidates, we did town meetings, we were talking to thousands and thousands of people, working hard. He said, I don’t have to do that. I’m worth $60 billion. I have more wealth than the bottom 125 million Americans. I’ll buy the presidency. That offends me very much.
And tomorrow night…
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Bloomberg’s Rising Polls Show The Power Of Billionaire Narrative Control
Back in November Mike Bloomberg was polling at four percent nationally and had the highest disapproval rating of any potential Democratic presidential candidate, and understandably so; the man has a uniquely horrible record and no redeeming traits to speak of.
Now, after spending $400 million in broadcast, radio and cable ads, $42 million on Facebook ads, $36 million on Google ads, and an unknown fortune on other shady manipulations, a national Quinnipiac poll released last week put him at 15 percent nationally in the Democratic primary. This week national polls released by NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist and Zogby put him at 19 and 20 percent, respectively.
Mike Bloomberg Ran Stasi-Style Police and Surveillance Operations Against Muslim Americans
New York University professor Nikhil Pal Singh, author of “Race and America’s Long War,” dissects Bloomberg’s record, his “racial terror” tactics in New York City, and what his candidacy says about the state of electoral politics in the U.S. Attorney Diala Shamas of the Center for Constitutional Rights, who fought Bloomberg over his Muslim surveillance program, describes the New York Police Department’s “Demographics Unit” that targeted Muslim Americans and their businesses, houses of worship, and restaurants. Shamas compares the surveillance program to some of the activities of the East German Stasi secret police and says Bloomberg’s use of the program should be seen as an ominous sign of what he might do as president.
NEVADA VOTERS: please remember to stay in line! As long as you are in line by the time polls close at your site, you are entitled to vote.
Find your closest early vote site at http://berniesanders.com/nevada .
It’s time to give the elites a bigger say in choosing the president
For decades, the conversation about nominations has been about the conflicts between party elites and everyone else. Today, that conversation is counterproductive. A better approach is to think about how voters and elites could best play their different roles: to make their political parties more representative while ultimately narrowing the nomination choice down to one person. And the best way to do that would be through preference primaries.
New NBC/WSJ national Dem poll Sanders 27% (unchanged from January poll) Biden 15% (-11) Bloomberg 14% (+5) Warren 14% (-1) Buttigieg 13% (+6) Klobuchar 7% (+2)
Sanders opens double-digit national lead: poll
Sen. Sanders has opened up a double-digit lead in the 2020 field, according to new NBC News/WSJ polling.
New Washington Post-ABC News national poll: Sanders 32 (+9 since Jan) Biden 16 (-16!!) Bloomberg 14 (+6) Warren 12 (unchanged) Buttigieg 8 (+3) Klobuchar 7 (+4)
Sanders surges into national lead in new Post-ABC poll
The Post-ABC poll shows Sanders, who got more votes in Iowa than any other candidate ahead of his narrow win in New Hampshire, with the support of 32 percent of Democrats and Democratic-leaning registered voters. That is an increase of nine percentage points since January.
Bernie Sanders’ campaign to request recount of Iowa caucuses
Bernie Sanders’ presidential campaign plans to ask for a partial recount of the Iowa caucus results after the state Democratic Party released results of its recanvass late Tuesday that show Sanders and Pete Buttigieg in an effective tie.
Sanders campaign senior adviser Jeff Weaver told The Associated Press in an interview Tuesday that the campaign has had a representative in contact with the Iowa Democratic Party throughout the recanvass process.
If these results stand Buttigieg would still get 14 national delegates (the ones that actually matter) to Bernie’s 12. Totally democratic system we have!
Bernie is still fighting that decision
Buttigieg lead in Iowa appears to fall to a mere 0.08 SDEs after recanvass Buttigieg 563.207 Sanders 563.127
Buttigieg, Sanders separated by thousandths of a point after Iowa recanvass
Buttigieg now leads Sanders by .08 state delegate equivalents, according to results posted by the state party — 26.186 percent for Buttigieg to 26.182 percent for Sanders. The initial results were marred by apparent reporting or mathematical errors.
Iowa Democratic Party Announces Results of Official Recanvass Request
The recanvass results still have Pete Buttigieg at the top, getting 14 national delegates. He is closely followed by Bernie Sanders who will get 12.
It’s extremely important to understand what the establishment wing of the Democratic Party is and who they are. Lying and cheating aren’t occasional ethical flaws they use in careless moments against their enemies. It’s the crux, the soul, of who they are. Expect it.
Op-Ed: Dems Should Do The Sensible Thing And Nominate A Moderate Rapacious Psychopath
If you can’t take it from me, take it from the cold, hard numbers: if Democrats want to beat Trump, they need to nominate a centrist. Someone who rejects the extremes of Bernie’s far left and Trump’s far right and instead espouses sensible, middle-of-the-road values like endless war and military expansionism, rapacious ecocide, corrupt plutocracy, crushing domestic austerity measures, new cold war nuclear escalations, continued deregulation of sociopathic financial and commercial institutions, police militarization, unprecedented levels of imprisonment, Orwellian surveillance programs, internet censorship, and ever-mounting authoritarianism.
You know, the moderate position.
Bernie TRIGGERS Bloomberg
The Mike Bloomberg campaign had the bright idea to attack online Bernie Bros. John Iadarola, Nando Vila, and Francesca Fiorentini, hosts of The Young Turks, break it down.
Jeff Bezos asked Michael Bloomberg months ago if he’d consider running for president
(09.11.2019)
A spokesperson for Bloomberg confirmed the conversation. An Amazon spokesperson did not respond to requests for comment.
Over 17,000 people showed up to Bernie’s rally in Tacoma, Washington. Folks we have the energy and the enthusiasm. Bernie beats Trump.
Thank you to the 10,400 who came out to our Bay Area rally today in Richmond! There are millions of people across this country who are ready to fight for justice. That should make us very hopeful.
Bernie breaks out of the pack
Bernie Sanders is becoming harder to stop. Nevada is where his opponents are starting to realize it.
NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist Poll: Sanders Leads, Bloomberg Qualifies For Debate
Sanders has 31% support nationally, up 9 points since December, the last time the poll asked about Democratic voters‘ preferences.
His next closest contender has 19%. But that second-place rival is former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg.
Tech for Nevada caucuses under scrutiny after Iowa debacle
Rep. John Katko (N.Y.), the top Republican on the House Homeland Security cybersecurity subcommittee, told The Hill that he thought the use of an iPad was “a terrible idea that exposes them to possible hacking.”
The Nevada Democratic Party was due to use the same app the IDP used, which was built by Shadow, Inc., but immediately announced it would abandon those plans after the Iowa debacle.
Poll: Sanders holds 19-point lead in Nevada
Progressive pollster Data for Progress found the democratic socialist with 35 percent support Nevada ahead of its caucus on Saturday. Clumped behind him are Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), former South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg and former Vice President Joe Biden, with 16 percent, 15 percent and 14 percent support, respectively.
Iowa Democratic Party Begins Recanvass of Caucus Precincts
The party is expected to finish the recanvass by Wednesday. After that, candidates can request a recount.
We’re about to be two weeks away from the Iowa caucuses, & the IDP has still not released real results from likely 2 precincts; & only one of them is on the recanvass list, which makes it an open question whether some voters in Des Moines Co. will ever have their votes included.
(Official reason the Des Moines precinct not on list is that no campaign put it on theirs; based on what co-chair of Des Moines Co Dems told @CoatsandLinen
, real results wouldn’t change Sanders/Buttigieg’s gap. But issue is also IDP putting burden of corrections on campaigns.)
Campaigns warn of chaos ahead of the Nevada caucuses
Campaigns said they still have not gotten the party to offer even a basic explanation of how key parts of the process will work. Volunteers are reporting problems with the technology that’s been deployed at the last minute to make the vote count smoother. And experts are raising serious questions about a tool the party has been feverishly assembling to replace the one scrapped after the meltdown in Iowa.
Dems campaign ahead of Nevada; Sanders leads latest Nevada poll
Ahead of the Nevada caucuses on February 22, Democrats are campaigning across both Nevada and elsewhere, such as South Carolina and Super Tuesday states. Sen. Amy Klobuchar, hoping to build off of her New Hampshire momentum, stated a desire for Mike Bloomberg to make the debate stage because she „can’t beat him on the airwaves.“ NBC’s Amanda Golden reports.
WATCH: @BernieSanders closes it out in Denver. This sequence on fighting the establishment has become one of his most popular woth crowds, always punctuated with the loudest jeers when Sanders mentions the “Democratic establishment.”
Democrats redefine center as theirs collapses
Now the Democratic field ideologically stretches barely at all. It runs from left to extreme left; and to the extent that the remaining candidates are trying to differentiate themselves, it’s by moving even still further left.
Unable to admit the obvious, or hold the center, party leaders are hurriedly seeking to recast their field to the center.
Hillary Clinton is not going to be Bloomberg’s vice president
Let’s start by saying this: It is not going to happen. Bloomberg is a long way from leading, let alone winning, the race for the Democratic nomination. There’s no indication he would ask Clinton to be on his ticket, and no compelling reason why she would accept.
Democratic presidential candidates ramp up efforts in Nevada as early voting begins
The Democratic presidential campaign turned west this weekend, with candidates barnstorming Nevada in the lead-up to the state’s caucuses on Saturday.
State-backed Alliance for Securing Democracy disinfo shop falsely smears The Grayzone as ‘state-backed’
Western government-funded German Marshall Project, falsely and hypocritically characterized The Grayzone and independent journalist Jordan Chariton as “state-backed media,” smearing them for their factual reporting on the shadowy network behind the controversial app that undermined the integrity of the Iowa caucuses.
The Grayzone has exposed the Alliance for Securing Democracy (ASD) in a series of investigative reports as a neo-McCarthyite outfit prone to spreading disinformation, staffed by counter-terror cranks and national security hustlers.
Mike Bloomberg in 2014: “We Should Hope” the NSA Is “Reading Every Email”
“Look, if you don’t want it to be in the public domain, don’t take that picture, don’t write it down. In this day and age, you’ve got to be pretty naive to believe that the NSA isn’t listening to everything and reading every email,” Bloomberg said. “And incidentally, given how dangerous the world is, we should hope they are, because this is really serious, what’s going on in the world.”
“The DNC ordered and paid for a security audit of the software, which was completed by NCC Group, a Britain-based cybersecurity firm.
Out of the review, which also involved threat assessment conducted with the national party as well as officials in Iowa… … and Nevada, came directions to guard the name of the vendor, and to take the software live as late as possible to prevent it from getting into the hands of hackers, according to multiple people who participated or had knowledge of the exercises.”
How the Iowa caucuses came ‘crashing down,’ under the watchful eye of the DNC
The DNC ordered and paid for a security audit of the software, which was completed by NCC Group, a Britain-based cybersecurity firm. Out of the review, which also involved threat assessment conducted with the national party as well as officials in Iowa and Nevada, came directions to guard the name of the vendor, and to take the software live as late as possible to prevent it from getting into the hands of hackers, according to multiple people who participated or had knowledge of the exercises.
State Rep. Mark Smith to lead Iowa Democratic Party after Troy Price stepped down Saturday
On Wednesday, the state party announced it would honor recanvass requests from both Sanders and Buttigieg.
The recanvass, which begins Sunday and is expected to take two days, involves the party comparing and correcting inconsistencies between the official results reported from 143 precincts and satellite caucuses and what the party reported in its tabulations.
Poll: Bernie Sanders is beating every other candidate in Nevada
The poll found 25 percent of likely Democratic caucus-goers support Sanders, 18 percent back former Vice President Joe Biden, 13 percent favor Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, and 11 percent support former hedge fund manager Tom Steyer. Both former South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg and Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar have the support of 10 percent of likely caucus-goers, and 8 percent of respondents said they were undecided.
Early voting begins in Nevada caucuses; officials taking steps to avoid problems faced in Iowa
Early voting has begun for the Nevada caucuses and state officials are looking to avoid the same problems that plagued the Iowa caucuses. NBC’s Simone Boyce reports
Volunteers and campaigns worry about results reporting ahead of Nevada caucuses
„The DNC is working with the Nevada Democratic Party and we are confident that they are doing everything they can to implement the lessons that have been learned from this process,“ David Bergstein, DNC spokesman, told CNN. „We have already deployed staff and will continue to work with them in the coming days.“
The state party told CNN last week that they had „eliminated the use of any apps“ in the caucus process following the problems in Iowa.
Bernie Sanders‘ success has Democratic centrists sounding the alarm
“You’re going to absolutely see significant money behind centrists, moderates, whatever, to defeat Sanders,” said Democratic strategist Andrew Feldman.
“Bernie is absolutely going to see intensified scrutiny. He was never in this position of the frontrunner in the 2016 race, and you’re going to see things from a long career come out that people are gonna go after.”
The Belief That Everything Will Be Fine Once Trump’s Gone Is More Dangerous Than Trump
Whether it winds up being Buttigieg, Bloomberg, or one of their ideological alt-centrist clones like Amy Klobuchar or the floundering Joe Biden, the mainstream narrative will soon converge around one candidate in a very positive way, with the only important qualification being that they aren’t Bernie Sanders. Many powerful people will do everything they can to prevent a Sanders nomination, whose presidency they oppose more than Trump’s. As journalist Matt Taibbi recently pointed out, the Democratic establishment has “every incentive to play every conceivable card. Trillions at stake.”
Do not stop pushing. Continue talking about Iowa and demand the campaign continue with their recanvass. When you’re going up against the establishment. Every delegate matters.
Amid bickering over transparency, Iowa Democrats retain prominent attorneys to review caucus chaos
The party’s State Central Committee, which acts as a governing board, approved up to $50,000 to retain attorneys Nick Klinefeldt, who was a federal attorney appointed by President Barack Obama, and former Iowa Attorney General Bonnie Campbell to conduct the investigation. Both are Democrats in Des Moines. Party officials hope the review will take 45 days or less.
Marvelous NYT explanation of the myriad Iowa errors (with a beautiful lay-out). But the biggest & most simple error is missing: 2 precincts (in Decatur Co. & Des Moines Co.) still lack any real results, & are likely showing results of another precinct.
We Checked the Iowa Caucus Math. Here’s Where It Didn’t Add Up.
There has often been some fuzziness in the way the results of the Iowa caucuses were calculated and reported. But this is the first year that Iowa Democrats released raw vote counts. The transparency provided the public with its first opportunity to check the complex math that determines which candidates get the delegates they need to win the Democratic nomination.
And in many cases, the math did not check out. In such a close race — Pete Buttigieg, the former mayor of South Bend, Ind., is leading Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont by a tenth of a percentage point — even small mistakes can add up.
..even with all that attention, the IDP still hasn’t felt like it has to so much as acknowledge that it has yet to report the results of likely 2 precincts, which is absolutely bonkers,.or to fix their results we know don’t conform to sheets.
Documents reveal DNC was ‚intimately involved‘ in development of troubled Iowa caucus app
The copies of Atwater’s email and Shadow’s contract with the IDP obtained by Yahoo News contained some redactions. Sources familiar with the original documents confirmed the authenticity of the copies. Atwater’s email was redacted to omit the name of the IDP official she communicated with. The Shadow contract was redacted to omit signatures and details about how much the company was paid by the IDP.
It has never made sense to me that a tiny group of people should have incredible wealth and power in America while most people have none. That is what we are going to change.
Sanders builds double-digit national lead: poll
The latest Morning Consult poll finds Sanders at 29 percent support, followed by former Vice President Joe Biden at 19 percent and former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg at 18 percent. Sanders gained 3 points in the poll after winning the New Hampshire primary this week, while Biden lost 3 points after a disastrous fifth-place showing.
Nevada Democratic Party to use Google custom calculator to tally caucus results
Party Executive Director Alana Mounce sent a memo explaining that the calculator will be loaded onto 2,000 iPads purchased by the Nevada State Democratic Party, with the iPads then distributed to precinct chairs.
(deep breath) am I going to have to clear my entire late February schedule? (my birthday is a few days after Nevada so they better not Iowa this)
Nevada Democrats debut to volunteers new iPad-based ‘tool’ to calculate math on Caucus Day in the wake of Iowa fiasco
(08.02.2020)
Nevada Democrats are planning to use a new caucus tool that will be preloaded onto iPads and distributed to precinct chairs to help facilitate the Caucus Day process, according to multiple volunteers and a video recording of a volunteer training session on Saturday.
The Nevada Caucuses Are Up Next. Will They Unfold Smoothly?
After the chaos in Iowa, campaigns are worried that their months of effort in Nevada could go to waste. While state party officials have offered assurances, they have released few details.
Iowa Democratic Party chairman resigns after caucuses chaos
After a breakdown in tallying the results on Feb. 3, it took until Feb. 6 for the state party, which operates the series of roughly 1,700 local meetings statewide, to issue what it said are complete results. In those figures, released by the party, former South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg leads Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders by two state delegate equivalents out of 2,152 counted. That is a margin of 0.09 percentage points.
Troy Price resigns as head of Iowa Democratic Party after bungled caucuses
Troy Price has resigned as the chairman of the Iowa Democratic Party, CBS News has confirmed, after a bungled Iowa caucuses saga that has yet to yield any certified final results. Price made the announcement in a letter to the Iowa Democratic Party’s State Central Committee.
Bernie Sanders Has Already Won
Despite his victory Tuesday night in the New Hampshire primary, Bernie Sanders still faces an uphill climb to win the Democratic nomination and if successful could well lose to President Trump this fall. Yet even in defeat, the first self-declared socialist in American history to have a realistic chance at both prizes is likely to achieve a different kind of victory, one few actual presidents ever have: transforming the ideology and program of a major party.
American Federation of Musicians Local 47 Endorses Bernie Sanders for President
The American Federation of Musicians Local 47 is proud to endorse Bernie Sanders for President of the United States in the 2020 Primary Election.
Members of the Los Angeles musicians union’s political action committee voted unanimously to recommend that the AFM Local 47 executive board – the elected leadership body of the 7,000-member union – endorse Sen. Sanders as the candidate who best represents the interests of musicians. On Tuesday, the board in turn voted unanimously to endorse Sanders in an unprecedented move for a union historically removed from taking official stances in presidential elections.
Americans Were Already Primed To Distrust Elections. Then Came Iowa.
When the Iowa caucuses went to hell in a handbasket last week, they probably took some of Americans’ last morsels of trust in the political system down too. But when I asked political scientists and psychologists about the impact of the bungled caucuses on overall political cynicism, they, by and large, weren’t particularly concerned. The vast majority of voters probably won’t care all that much, they said;
Moderate Democrats Stress Over Crowded Center Lane
There is no single centrist rival to front-runner Bernie Sanders, and party leaders are bracing for a protracted nomination fight
Senate Democrats queasy over Sanders as nominee
Democratic senators have been careful not to criticize Sanders publicly, fearing that it could undermine party unity heading into the November general election, which they view as a must-win contest.
But they have serious questions about the electability of their self-described democratic socialist colleague and the problems he may create down-ballot for vulnerable Senate candidates.
The Hill’s Morning Report – Sanders surge triggers Dem angst
Biden, once the Democratic frontrunner, has posted fourth- and fifth-place finishes in Iowa and New Hampshire, respectively, and has supporters trying to keep the faith and remain optimistic about his chances. However, one key bloc of supporters has grown nervous since voting has kicked off: Senate Democrats.
Centrist Democrats Want to Stop Sanders. They’re Not Sure Who Can.
Unless a moderate favorite soon emerges, party leaders may increasingly look to Michael R. Bloomberg as a potential savior.
IDP count still likely lacks results of 2 precincts (but says „100%“). It has dozens of errors, at least one of which is *not* what math sheet shows. And yet: 1) It’s CHARGING campaigns for a recanvass… 2) … that won’t even cover all errors, incl. a likely missing precinct!
Media darling Pete Buttigieg was in unit that worked with the CIA in Afghanistan
While official records linking the ATFC to the CIA do not appear widely in available government documents, their collaboration is an open secret. One early report by the Association of Former Intelligence Officers, an advocacy organization for the US intelligence community, noted “the cell has about two-dozen members drawn from the Drug Enforcement Administration, US Central Command, the Treasury Department and the CIA. The FBI is expected to join soon.”
Global news wire Agency France-Presse characterized ATFC as “a multi-agency organization currently comprising about 30 specialists on loan from the Department of Drug Enforcement, Department of the Treasury, Department of Justice, Department of Defense’s CENTCOM, the CIA and the FBI.”
Nevada Democrats will use paper ballots for early voting; still little known about caucus tool
There are still some questions about a new caucus “tool” that is supposed to help Nevada Democrats count votes.
8 News Now spoke with Nevada State Democratic Party Chairman William McCurdy II, but he would not go into any details about what exactly the “tool” is or how it works.
We do know that it is an iPad with preloaded software.
Wait. Candidates have to pay for the recanvass because the Iowa Democratic Party screwed up the process and the results? That seems unfair, to say the least.
Iowa Democratic Party says it plans to begin recanvass of caucus results on Sunday
The party is expected to provide the campaigns with details related to the timeline of the recanvass and the costs for which campaigns will be responsible. After that, the campaigns will have 24 hours to decide whether they want to proceed with the recanvass.
Once the process begins Sunday, the party said, it is expected to last for two days.
Andrew Yang, who suspended his political campaign on Tuesday in New Hampshire, says he isn’t yet publicly endorsing a candidate but that he will support „whoever the Democratic nominee is.“
Deval Patrick drops out of 2020 race
Patrick said in a statement announcing his withdrawal that he still believes his record as governor dealing with health care, the Boston Marathon bombing and more made an effective case for his candidacy, but he did not have the momentum necessary to move forward.
So I just want to understand this system: The candidate who lost the popular vote in Iowa got more delegates than the winner. Then in New Hampshire he loses the popular vote again but this time still gets the same number of delegates as the person who ACTUALLY won more votes?
Sanders wins NH, but Buttigieg will get same number of delegates
NBC News projects that Bernie Sanders has won the NH primary, Pete Buttigieg came in second, and Amy Klobuchar will come in third. But Steve Kornacki explains how Buttigieg will get the same number of delegates as Sanders.
The IDP results are still riddled with errors. They are mathematically incoherent. In some cases they don’t conform to what local precincts are reporting. They can claim what they want. Thankfully, the press isn’t bound to just account. That’s where we come in. Let’s dig in.
(10.02.2020)
Faulty Iowa App Was Part of Push to Restore Democrats’ Digital Edge
(04.02.2020)
Still, when Iowa Democrats, on the advice of the national party, abandoned plans to have caucus results called in by phone because of security concerns and instead build an app, they chose Shadow from multiple bidders, according to a state party official.
Tele-voting gets a veto
(03.09.2019)
“We concur with the advice of the DNC’s security experts that there is no tele-caucus system available that meets our standard of security and reliability given the scale needed for the Iowa and Nevada caucuses and the current cyber-security climate,” says Tom Perez, Lorraine Miller, and Jim Roosevelt, of the DNC Rules and By-Laws Committee, in a joint statement.
UF Engineer Testifies Before U.S. House Committee about Election Security
(22.01.2020)
“Currently, there is no known way to secure a digital ballot. At this time, any election that does not employ paper ballots cannot be secured,” Dr. Gilbert said. “Therefore, the report recommended that Internet voting, and specifically the electronic return of marked ballots, should not be used at this time.”
House Administration Committee Chairperson Zoe Lofgren commended Dr. Gilbert on the presentation of the report’s findings and the excellent work done by the National Academies. She noted that the report was “the guts of what we ended up putting in our SAFE [Securing America’s Federal Elections] Act that’s now pending in the Senate.”
About Prime III
The name Prime III was chosen because it’s a third generation voting system. Dr. Juan E. Gilbert defines voting systems by generation. First generation voting was done with mechanical equipment and paper, e.g. lever machines, punch cards, etc. Second generation voting uses computers, e.g. optical scan, DRE. Third generation devices are multimodal, e.g. Prime III, AutoMark. These are machines that accommodate multiple voters on one machine using multimodality. Prime III is a third generation voting device that allows voters to cast their ballot using touch, voice or both..
Prime III
After piloting Prime III in selected wards in the 2014 primary election, the New Hampshire Department of State modified the software to accommodate the requirements of the state’s election code and debuted the system in the Presidential primary on February 9, 2016. Prime III can also be used through Gilbert’s other voting systems: Balloting and Televoting. The Balloting system enables voters to fill out their ballots online or through their phone. Once the ballot is completed, the voter will get a QR code that can be scanned at a Prime III-enabled voting machine to speed up the voting process.Televoting allows military and overseas voters to fill out their ballots through Prime III online and have it printed back at their home precinct.
New Hampshire’s Midnight Primary Is Using Accessible Voting Machines For the First Time
(11.02.2020)
Roughly 19% of New Hampshire voters have a disability, according to James Ziegra, a staff attorney at advocacy group Disability Rights Center-New Hampshire, who will be onsite to see Butler’s vote in Hart’s Location.
Why New Hampshire says it won’t be the next Iowa
(10.02.2020)
All New Hampshire voters vote with paper ballots, which they either mark by hand with pens or pencils or indirectly using touchscreen voting machines.
Sanders literally had more votes in both Iowa and New Hampshire and yet is somehow LOSING in the national delegate count to Buttigieg.
Buttigieg 23
Sanders 21
Warren 8
Klobuchar 7
Biden 6
Democrats for Democracy eh?
How Many Delegates Do The 2020 Democratic Presidential Candidates Have?
Total Delegates Awarded
The 2020 New Hampshire primary: Sanders and Buttigieg each win 9 delegates
Here’s CNN’s estimate of the New Hampshire delegate count:
Bernie Sanders: 9
Pete Buttigieg: 9
Amy Klobuchar: 6
Combined with Iowa delegates, Buttigieg now has a total of 23, Sanders has 21 and Klobuchar has 7.
US-Vorwahlen in New Hampshire Sieg für Sanders – Schlappe für Biden
Sanders, der 78 Jahre alte Senator aus Vermont, lag demnach bei 26 Prozent, gefolgt von den moderat-pragmatischen Bewerbern Pete Buttigieg (24,3 Prozent) und Amy Klobuchar (19,9 Prozent). Weit abgeschlagen folgten die Senatorin Elizabeth Warren und der frühere Vizepräsident Joe Biden, die bei den Delegiertenstimmen leer ausgehen dürften.
Krystal Ball: Democratic establishment would rather have four more years of Trump than see Bernie elected
„These are all people whose power comes from their access to the establishment world — consultants whose grift is based on a certain deal flow from the DNC, et cetera — and they know what you said about they prefer Trump to Bernie — that’s exactly right because they know under a Sanders administration, all of that access and all of that deal flow, all of that is gone and it truly is over for them,“ she said.
Iowa Democratic Party chairman ‚disappointed‘ by Perez’s caucus criticism
“Obviously I was very disappointed by the chairman’s comments,” Price told reporters at a press conference after he was asked whether Perez had thrown him and the Iowa Democratic Party “under the bus.” “You know this has been a full partnership with the DNC this entire time.”
“What I will say is we’ve got a job to do and that is to finish up this process,” he continued. “There’s going to be a time to assign blame, but I will tell you the DNC has been a partner in this process up to, including and after caucus night.”
DNC Chairman Tom Perez Blames Iowa Democratic Party For Caucus Disaster: „What Happened Was Unacceptable“
(07.02.2020)
During an interview on CNN Friday morning, Democratic National Committee Chairman Tom Perez sidestepped blaming the national party for the mess that happened during Monday’s Iowa caucus, saying: „Well, again, the Iowa Democratic Party runs the caucus. Okay? And they — what happened was unacceptable.“
Election Expert Warns Media: Don’t trust Iowa caucuses results
Editor of The Appeal: Political Report expands on the latest results in Iowa following a recanvass.
And the results @iowademocrats finally posted online? A @UpshotNYT review found at least 10% had improperly allocated delegates – mistakes in all 99 counties. But signed precinct worksheets are final documents — they can’t be fixed in a recanvass.
It took three days for Iowa Democratic Party volunteers to check all the caucus results worksheets that arrived by email. One results page didn’t reach Des Moines until Thursday — it had been sent through the Postal Service.
Iowa Democrats need new state chair–and new attorney
A February 6 written statement from Price acknowledged that the reporting problems on caucus night “were unacceptable.” What he went on to say raised red flags (emphasis added):
“Should any presidential campaign in compliance with the Iowa Delegate Selection Plan request a recanvass, the IDP is prepared. In such a circumstance, the IDP will audit the paper records of report, as provided by the precinct chairs and signed by representatives of presidential campaigns. This is the official record of the Iowa Democratic caucus, and we are committed to ensuring the results accurately reflect the preference of Iowans.”
What about those dozens of precincts where the official record submitted by the precinct chair did not accurately reflect the preference of caucus-goers in the room, because one candidate received too many or not enough delegates?
IDP leaders decided to stick with the flawed official record.
Die „Demokratie“ in den USA: Eine Farce
Die erneute Demontage des US-Politikers Bernie Sanders durch die eigene Partei wirft einmal mehr ein brutales Licht auf die klägliche Verfassung der dortigen politischen Landschaft. Mit diesem Zustand befassen sich auch alternative US-Medien – sie werfen zudem die Frage auf: Wäre ein Sieg der US-Demokraten überhaupt wünschenswert?
Sanders will Überprüfung von Iowa-Ergebnis
Hintergrund ist eine technische Panne bei der Übermittlung der Ergebnisse, weswegen es Zweifel an ihrer Korrektheit gibt.
NEW: The @BernieSanders campaign plans to ask for a recanvass of some Iowa precincts before the Monday 1 pm deadline, @fshakir tells @ryanobles
Iowa Democrats Give Buttigieg the Most Delegates as Sanders Team Seeks Recanvass
A Sanders aide confirmed that the campaign would be seeking a partial recanvass of results. The Iowa Democratic Party did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Buttigieg gets the most delegates and Sanders comes in second, Iowa Democratic Party says
With these updates in place, Pete Buttigieg holds a 0.1% lead over Bernie Sanders in the state delegate equivalent count, which determines the winner of the Iowa caucuses. That margin is unchanged from the previously announced results.
If there are no requests to recanvass or recount, Buttigieg would be the winner of the Iowa caucuses. According to the Iowa Democratic Party, he will claim 14 delegates. Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders will receive 12,
Iowa Democratic Party reviewing reported inconsistencies in 95 precincts
The party received reports from the campaigns of Bernie Sanders, Pete Buttigieg and Elizabeth Warren.
Following a chaotic delay, due in part to a new app used to report the results of the Iowa caucuses, results from 100% of precincts finally came in late Thursday, three days after the caucuses. No national delegates have been awarded yet, however, pending review of the results.
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10 Things That Went Wrong In Iowa
Democrats’ Iowa caucus produced endless bitterness but no uncontested winner. Here are 10 ways the caucus process went wrong.