California elections supervised and managed by the California Secretary Alex Padilla, a supporter of Hillary Clinton entiled fundraiser for Clinton in Riverside on May 21st.
Voters have beeen told to use any kind of sound, "NPP" sound than regular ballots with the name of the Democratic Party presidential candidates' printed on them. Note to California voters : If you do not or did not see Bernie Sanders' name printed on your ballot, you have the wrong kind of ballot. You have until election day to go the country's voter registrar's office to ask or a Democratic party ballot, or ask for it at your polling place on Election Day.
Last week independent journalist Greg Palast reported :
"I am currently reporting from Southem California, and there's an Ashley Beck, who is a poll worker in conservative Orange County. She was being trained with other pook workers, and they were given some very strange information. In the california primary, the independent voters registered as NPP, or no party preference, can vote in the Democratic primary. They can ask for a ballot and they are allowed to vote. The Orange Cubty poll workers were told if NPP voters ask for Democratic Party ballot to vote for Bernie of Hilarry, they are not to given regular ballots, but provisional ballots. This shook up Ashley."
Ms. Beck told Palast :
"I was told that all NPP voters are to be given provisional ballots. I was bothered by that, because I was always told that NPP voters in California can vote or Democrats and their vote would be counted. I was a little worried that he was telling all 18 of us poll workers t give all NPP voters provisionak ballots. We all know what happens most of the time with provisional ballots. They are not being counted."
"Provisional" ballots difer from regular Democratic party ballots in thet they have no presidential candidates printed on them. True Democratic pimary ballots have "Bernie Sanders" and "Hillary Clinton" printed on them.
Palast, in an interview with Dennis Bernstein for Reader Supported News, pointed out that phenomenon of record numbers of independent voters seeking to vote in this year's primaries, overwhelmingly consist of Sanders partisans. The votes thrown out will almost all be Sanders votes, Palast said.
The polling firn Political Data nc. yold NBC affiliate KCRA News in Sacramento that, according to their data, 58% of independent voters who sought to cast a Democratic ballot would have voted for Sanders, while just 37% saidthey would vote for Clinton.
A search of Callifornia media coverage of the incorrect instructions shows only the KCRA report, which suggests that going into the CA primary this Tuesday, untold numbers of votes are still headed toward casting votes that won't count.
In addition, the ballot confusion comes amid reports that, similarly to what happened in Arizona and New York,, voters are finding their party affiliations mysterious changed, sometimes disqualifying them from voting in the Democratic primary. Voters should exercise extreme vigilance in cheking their recorded voter regisrations online.
A Ca citizen's group, the Voting Rights Defence Project, filed a lawsuit last month as numerous instances of the misinformation on state websites spread, asking the judge to order the state to issue correct information via a mass media campaign before this Tuesday's primary. Federal Judge Willian Alsup threw out the suit, saying "The citizens of California are smart enough to know what their rights are."
Secretary of State Padilla's office fought the lawsuit and denied any public awareness campaign wa needed.
The approaching iasco unfolds as Hillary Clinton continues to fight for a tie in the plls with Donald Trump, while Sanders maintains a wide lead over Trump in head-to-head, general election polls. The polls suggest the independent voters who support Sanders will not will not transfer their allegiance, and votes, to Hillary, if she is nominee. Sanders maintains a comfortable 11 point lead over Trump, while Clinton is now fighting to stay neck-and-neck.
At the same time heavy blows continued to rain down the candidacy of Clinton, at least not spicy State Departement report on the removal of its thousands o email in violation of the Public Recos Act, and his use of the email account is not secure when his time as Secretary of State, the national security experts say compromised confidential nation, CIA Director and former NSA Director Michael Hayden told USA Today:
" I will lose all respect for a number of foreign intelligence agencies if they do not sit back, paging via email,"
As Trump rose in the polls in relation to Clinton, a newquestion about the Clinton Foundation continues to surface, as well as old ones, such as report from the magazine Mother Jones liberal that acceptance by Clinton a great gift from the govemment of Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait, and United Arab Emirates submitted the thorny question of consent arms deals to countries with Clinton when was secretary of state.
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