Election Problems Thread: TX, OH, RI, VT Please Report Here (CRITICAL OH update)
Tue Mar 04, 2008 at 07:03:04 AM PDT
Hey guys, I see we've got a thread to report turnout throughout the day. I thought it would be helpful to open an election problem/fraud thread so that we can quickly get word out of any issues occurring today. I've already had one semi-major problem reported in Tarrant County (details beneath the fold). Please comment on this thread if you are seeing issues as well.
UPDATE: This thread is getting heavy. Here is the second "problem reporting" thread. Please recommend it and unrec this diary. Thanks!!
New Mexico Caucus stolen from people by party machine!
Thu Feb 07, 2008 at 07:18:41 AM PDT
Don’t trust the caucus results here in New Mexico, as no competent and reasoned person can find the outcome legitimate because of the failings of the State Democratic Party. This diary is not about Clinton vs. Obama, but about the very legitimacy of our Democratic Process.
For some reason (either incompetence or to play games with the outcome) they printed so few ballots that voters literally were told they could not vote at their correct polling place because of the shortage. I heard this at 4:45 at my polling place, with still over two hours left until the close of the polls. They printed 40,000 ballots for the 155,000 people who showed up, despite a month of record turnouts across the country and the fact that 100,000 people voted in the 2004 NM Caucus.
And second, three ballot boxes mysteriously disappeared overnight in the heart of the patron/party machine system. The boxes showed up the next day in the arms of a family member of Clinton endorser. Even if nothing happened, the handling of those ballot boxes undermines the legitimacy of the votes contained therein. And those ballots boxes will likely be the difference in the election.
Much more (including an article from the Santa Fe New Mexican) after the break...