If you watched cable TV news, even Rachel Maddow, a
progressive who is one of the best, you were misled on the Arizona primary.
We were told they had lines going around the blocks past
midnight because the government had not set up enough polling stations. The
idea was they wanted to keep minorities from voting, taking advantage of a
recent U.S. Supreme Court decision.
We may never know the details of what really happened. We do
know it was odd there were so many voters because 50 percent, higher in some
counties, had voted early.
Arizona’s state law, unlike some states, does not let voters
cross over and vote for a party they are not registered in. Democrats can’t for
Republicans. Republicans can’t vote for Democrats. Independents/unaffiliated
can’t vote for other.
In fact, independents slightly outnumber Republicans. And
Democrats are third.
Republican: 1,105,521
Independent/unaffiliated: 1,201, 397
Democrats: 917,411
This is not a new law, and has been observed in previous
primaries.
CNN criticized Arizona on election night for not changing
the law to allow the thousands of independents who were clamoring to vote to be
allowed to cast ballots.
It is hard to say who was behind this false flag operation: Perhaps
Donald Trump or Ted Cruz. Clinton smashed Bernie Sanders. There was obvious
reason for her to get involved in this illegal action.
This would be mainly an Arizona story except that some
Republican leaders are saying they will not accept delegates from primaries
that let voters crossover.
Some leading reporters are saying they will reject delegates
elected in primaries that allow indepenents and Democrats to vote.
Why?
Bernie Sanders: Website says, “Closed primary elections and caucuses exist as a
defense mechanism against political sabotage. Some states’ political parties
are concerned that voters, instead of using their vote to support the candidate
with whom they agree the most, will vote for a weak candidate in the opposing
political party. That is to say, these individuals may subvert the opposing
political party’s power as a way to advance the potential of their own
political party.”
In 1976, the GOP changed its rules so that Gerald Ford would
get the nomination from Ronald
Reagan. Ford lost to a peanut farmer from Georgia, Jimmy Carter.
Reagan. Ford lost to a peanut farmer from Georgia, Jimmy Carter.
Some fear if the rules are change this time it will elect
Hillary Clinton or Sanders.
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