Will the Primaries be Rigged? (Again?)

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http://www.vdare.com/posts/will-the-primaries-be-rigged-againWill the Primaries be Rigged? (Again?)James Kirkpatrick
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One of the most common refrains from Trump supporters is that The Donald simply won’t be allowed to win. The Powers That Be are simply not going to let someone get into office who might do something to cut off their supply of cheap labor. But how could they do it? Ann Coulter predicted (http://www.vdare.com/articles/yes-conservatism-inc-trump-is-not-a-real-republican-hes-a-real-american)a faux scandal breaking just before the primary. The more excitable (https://www.google.com/search?q=trump+assassination+plot&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8)posit assassination. But the truth is probably something more subtle.
Which brings us to an investigation by TruthOut arguing that not only could the primaries and even the elections be rigged, they’ve been rigged in the past.

Primary election rigging in the coming weeks and months is all but assured if American voters and candidates don’t take steps to prevent it now. Evidence that US voting systems are wide open to fraud and manipulation should be taken seriously in light of the unprecedented high-stakes elections we’re facing.
Not in recent history have American voters been presented with such radically polarized candidates, forcing a crucial choice for the direction of our future, and possibly upending long-established centers of power.
[Will the 2016 Primaries be electronically rigged? (http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/34607-will-the-2016-primaries-be-electronically-rigged:%28) by Victoria Collier and Ben Ptashnik, TruthOut, January 28, 2016]Iowa is especially vulnerable to this kind of activity because the caucus is more complicated than a primary. Thus, if you get a “surprise” result vastly different than what the polls had predicted, it wouldn’t raise many eyebrows. You almost expect something like that.
And it happened in 2012. Last night, when Rick Santorum appeared on stage at Donald Trump’s Rally for Vets, many observed Trump’s coup that he had the last winner of the Iowa Caucus essentially endorsing him. But that almost didn’t happen. Or, at least, the real winner was almost actively covered up.
From the article:

Iowa Caucus 2012:
In the 2012 Iowa caucus, Mitt Romney, the favored candidate of the Republican Party’s business elite, was declared the winner after a party-controlled vote count.
However, the true winner turned out to be Rick Santorum, an establishment outsider but the favorite of the party’s evangelical and far-right wings.
Romney actually received fewer votes than were posted online by the state GOP, enough to swing the election. The wrong number was exposed by precinct vote counter Edward True. His protest garnered media attention and ultimately overturned the results, but it was too late for Santorum; Romney’s momentum coming out of Iowa made him the “man to beat” going into New Hampshire.
The right-wing libertarian citizen group Watch the Vote was involved in overturning the Iowa caucus results, and was not convinced it was purely human error. They pledge to keep their eye on Iowa in 2016, stating on their website:
Clearly … the Iowa GOP will be trying to cheat Donald Trump, Rand Paul, Ted Cruz, Rick Santorum, and Mike Huckabee. They will be trying to make Jeb Bush, Marco Rubio, and John Kasich “win” or “do well” … but we will be focusing on getting a fair count for everyone.
The article chronicles other cases of voter fraud, especially in New Hampshire and South Carolina.
Imagine this scenario. Trump loses Iowa, probably to Cruz (not that Cruz would thrill the Establishment, but it would prevent Trump from simply steamrolling the primaries.) Then, you see a mysterious Establishment victory in New Hampshire. South Carolina becomes a free fall and Trump is stumped because of “momentum,” even though the polls show a vastly different race.
Would most people react or suspect fraud? Probably not. After all, it’s practically consensus the only reason Al Franken won his Senate election was won through a different kind of voter fraud, non-citizens voting (http://www.vdare.com/posts/science-obamacare-passed-due-to-non-citizens-voting-illegally-for-comedian-franken). And nobody cared.
After all, remember the first rule of politics…

“The ballots don’t make the results, the counters make the results. The counters.”



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Sanders Concerned About Microsoft Hacking Iowa VoteSource: Geek Wire (http://www.geekwire.com/2016/bernie-sanders-suspicious-of-microsoft-involvement-in-iowa-caucuses/)

The Iowa Caucuses are coming up on Monday, and for the first time, smartphones will play a role in calculating who wins. But it’s not a government app that party leaders will be using to file totals, it’s a Microsoft product (http://blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issues/2015/06/05/microsoft-technology-to-usher-in-new-era-for-2016-iowa-caucuses/). And that has at least one candidate concerned. In an interview with MSNBC (http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/sanders-campaign-suspicious-corporate-influence-iowa-caucus), Bernie Sanders’ Iowa campaign manager Pete D’Alessandro was suspicious of a large corporation’s intentions in helping total the vote. “You’d have to ask yourself why they’d want to give something like that away for free,” he told the news channel.
And Sanders’ team has built its own, separate reporting system to double-check the results. The campaign is also using a dial-in system to provide even further redundancy in keeping Microsoft’s system honest.
“It’s just a way that our folks can have an app that we trust to get the numbers to us in a timely fashion,” D’Alessandro told MSNBC. “I’m always going to be more for sure on the stuff that my people had control over the entire time… If there are any problems, we can spot them right away.”
Hillary Clinton’s campaign is also using a secondary counting system to double-check totals, but hasn’t publicly stated skepticism about Microsoft’s involvement.
“The Iowa Caucuses provided a unique, non-partisan opportunity to use technology to help evolve the reporting process,” a Microsoft representative said in a statement. “Microsoft is providing technology and services solely to administer and facilitate a neutral, accurate, efficient reporting system for the caucuses. We are proud to partner with the Iowa Democratic and Republican parties to ensure accurate results on caucus night.”


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Why is microsoft involved in this at all?

[Cebu_4_2]

Why is microsoft involved in this at all?

to allowe and to bring it up by law.
Diebold? Looking to the article now. With RP it was rigged from the front but he didn't have the funds to bring it up... Besides the repugs are no

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http://www.vdare.com/posts/will-the-primaries-be-rigged-againWill the Primaries be Rigged? (Again?)James Kirkpatrick
VDARE (http://www.vdare.com/posts/will-the-primaries-be-rigged-again)
January 30, 2016
http://www.dailystormer.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Selection_999616-618x640.png (http://www.dailystormer.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Selection_999616.png)
One of the most common refrains from Trump supporters is that The Donald simply won’t be allowed to win. The Powers That Be are simply not going to let someone get into office who might do something to cut off their supply of cheap labor. But how could they do it? Ann Coulter predicted (http://www.vdare.com/articles/yes-conservatism-inc-trump-is-not-a-real-republican-hes-a-real-american)a faux scandal breaking just before the primary. The more excitable (https://www.google.com/search?q=trump+assassination+plot&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8)posit assassination. But the truth is probably something more subtle.
Which brings us to an investigation by TruthOut arguing that not only could the primaries and even the elections be rigged, they’ve been rigged in the past.

Primary election rigging in the coming weeks and months is all but assured if American voters and candidates don’t take steps to prevent it now. Evidence that US voting systems are wide open to fraud and manipulation should be taken seriously in light of the unprecedented high-stakes elections we’re facing.
Not in recent history have American voters been presented with such radically polarized candidates, forcing a crucial choice for the direction of our future, and possibly upending long-established centers of power.
[Will the 2016 Primaries be electronically rigged? (http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/34607-will-the-2016-primaries-be-electronically-rigged:%28) by Victoria Collier and Ben Ptashnik, TruthOut, January 28, 2016]Iowa is especially vulnerable to this kind of activity because the caucus is more complicated than a primary. Thus, if you get a “surprise” result vastly different than what the polls had predicted, it wouldn’t raise many eyebrows. You almost expect something like that.
And it happened in 2012. Last night, when Rick Santorum appeared on stage at Donald Trump’s Rally for Vets, many observed Trump’s coup that he had the last winner of the Iowa Caucus essentially endorsing him. But that almost didn’t happen. Or, at least, the real winner was almost actively covered up.
From the article:

Iowa Caucus 2012:
In the 2012 Iowa caucus, Mitt Romney, the favored candidate of the Republican Party’s business elite, was declared the winner after a party-controlled vote count.
However, the true winner turned out to be Rick Santorum, an establishment outsider but the favorite of the party’s evangelical and far-right wings.
Romney actually received fewer votes than were posted online by the state GOP, enough to swing the election. The wrong number was exposed by precinct vote counter Edward True. His protest garnered media attention and ultimately overturned the results, but it was too late for Santorum; Romney’s momentum coming out of Iowa made him the “man to beat” going into New Hampshire.
The right-wing libertarian citizen group Watch the Vote was involved in overturning the Iowa caucus results, and was not convinced it was purely human error. They pledge to keep their eye on Iowa in 2016, stating on their website:
Clearly … the Iowa GOP will be trying to cheat Donald Trump, Rand Paul, Ted Cruz, Rick Santorum, and Mike Huckabee. They will be trying to make Jeb Bush, Marco Rubio, and John Kasich “win” or “do well” … but we will be focusing on getting a fair count for everyone.
The article chronicles other cases of voter fraud, especially in New Hampshire and South Carolina.
Imagine this scenario. Trump loses Iowa, probably to Cruz (not that Cruz would thrill the Establishment, but it would prevent Trump from simply steamrolling the primaries.) Then, you see a mysterious Establishment victory in New Hampshire. South Carolina becomes a free fall and Trump is stumped because of “momentum,” even though the polls show a vastly different race.
Would most people react or suspect fraud? Probably not. After all, it’s practically consensus the only reason Al Franken won his Senate election was won through a different kind of voter fraud, non-citizens voting (http://www.vdare.com/posts/science-obamacare-passed-due-to-non-citizens-voting-illegally-for-comedian-franken). And nobody cared.
After all, remember the first rule of politics…

“The ballots don’t make the results, the counters make the results. The counters.”



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Like digital money gives them full monetary controls, digital voting puts the elections into the hands of TPTB. I'm astonished that everyone doesn't realize that

[Spectrism]

Watch Jeb Bush miraculously surge ahead in the primaries and the news commentators will begin to postulate what turned the corner for him. They will say things like:

- an underdog who grew through his campaigns and garnered favor from the majority
- the negative antics from Trump finally disgusted his support base
- the dirty attacks from Rubio & Cruz made them look too mean to be president
- people wanted someone they could trust to lead them and Bush was that one for the Repubs
- Amerika has spoken and they chose Bush on the repub side

And to think that slimey bastard is probably getting about 3% interest from the repubs and 0% interest from the demoncrats.

[mick silver]

The Deep State: The Unelected Shadow Government Is Here To Stay
America’s next president will inherit more than a bitterly divided nation teetering on the brink of financial catastrophe when he or she assumes office. He will also inherit a shadow government, one that is fully operational and staffed by unelected officials who are, in essence, running the country.
To be precise, however, the future president will actually inherit not one but two shadow governments.





The first (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/09/AR2006060900891.html) shadow government, referred to as COG or continuity of government, is made up of unelected individuals who have been appointed to run the government in the event of a “catastrophe.”

The second (http://billmoyers.com/2014/02/21/anatomy-of-the-deep-state/) shadow government, referred to as the Deep State, is comprised of unelected government bureaucrats, corporations, contractors, paper-pushers, and button-pushers who are actually calling the shots behind the scenes right now.
The first shadow government, COG, is a phantom menace waiting for the right circumstances—a terrorist attack, a natural disaster, an economic meltdown—to bring it out of the shadows, where it operates even now. When and if COG takes over, the police state will transition to martial law.
Yet as I point out in my book Battlefield America: The War on the American People (http://www.amazon.com/Battlefield-America-War-American-People/dp/1590793099), it is the second shadow government, the Deep State, which poses the greater threat to our freedoms. This permanent, corporatized, militarized, entrenched bureaucracy is unaffected by elections, unaltered by populist movements, and beyond the reach of the law.
This is the hidden face of the police state.
These two shadow governments, which make a mockery of representative government and the “reassurance ritual” of voting, have been a long time in the making. Yet they have been so shrouded in secrecy, well hidden from the eyes and ears of the American people, that they exist and function in contravention to the principles of democratic government.
As the following makes clear, these shadow governments, which operate beyond the reach of the Constitution and with no real accountability to the citizenry, are the reason why “we the people” have no control over our government.
The COG shadow government plan was devised during the Cold War as a means of ensuring that a nuclear strike didn’t paralyze the federal government (http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,156041,00.html).
COG initially called for three teams (http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2004/03/the-armageddon-plan/302902/) consisting of a cabinet member, an executive chief of staff and military and intelligence officials to practice evacuating and directing a counter nuclear strike against the Soviet Union from a variety of high-tech, mobile command vehicles. If the president and vice president were both killed, one of these teams would take control, with the ranking cabinet official serving as president.
This all changed after the attacks of September 11, 2001, when it became clear that there would be no warning against a terrorist attack. Instead of waiting until an attack occurred to mobilize part-time bureaucrats and activate evacuation schemes, George W. Bush opted to change COG (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/09/AR2007050902719.html) and establish a full-time, permanent shadow government (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/09/AR2006060900891.html), stationed outside the capital, run by permanently appointed (not elected) executive officials.
COG has since taken on a power—and a budget—of its own.
Incredibly, under the Obama administration, the plans for the shadow government have expanded and grown far more elaborate and costly than many realize (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/08/AR2006080801220.html). It is what investigative journalist William M. Arkin refers to as “the latest manifestation of an obsession with government survival (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/02/AR2006060201410.html).”
In much the same way that the nation was taken hostage after 9/11 by color-coded terror alerts and “See Something, Say Something” campaigns that transformed us into a fearful, watchful nation of suspects, the government’s efforts to prepare us for a so-called national disaster have, in turn, left us a constant state of near-emergency and acclimated us to the sight of militarized police, military drills on American soil, privatized prisons, the specter of internment camps, and the erosion of constitutional rights, especially as they pertain to so-called “extremists,” domestic or otherwise.
Study the COG plans carefully, however, and you’ll find that the concern isn’t so much about protecting our government as it is about protecting the nation’s governmental elite.
As Arkin reports (http://phasezero.gawker.com/the-secret-mountain-our-spies-will-hide-in-when-washing-1701044312): “Countless billions have been spent on this endeavor over the years, a secret orgy of preparedness going on behind the scenes, one that ensures Washington can defend itself, take care of its own, and survive no matter what (http://phasezero.gawker.com/the-secret-mountain-our-spies-will-hide-in-when-washing-1701044312).”
To this end, the government has invested heavily in the “architecture of fear (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/local/daily/july/25/brier1.htm)”: massive underground bunkers—the size of small cities—which are sprinkled throughout the country for the government elite to escape to “in case of an imminent nuclear strike so that they can set up a kind of Administration-in-exile, directing every order of business from retaliation to recovery (http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,156041,00.html).”
These bunkers, strategically located around the nation’s capital and in key states, represent a who’s (http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,156041,00.html) who on the shadow government’s payroll, with every department and agency represented, from the Department of Education and the Trademark Office to the Small Business Administration and the National Archives.
No sector has been overlooked (http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,156041,00.html): military, surveillance, counterintelligence, scientific, political, judicial, corporate contractors, as well as computer programmers, engineers, fire fighters, craftsmen, security guards, branch chiefs, financial managers, supply officers, secretaries and stenographers, all of whom have been entrusted with special ID cards allowing them clearance into the doomsday survival sites. They’ve even included individuals tasked with patent and trademark processing (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/02/AR2006060201410.html). They even have contingency plans to save priceless works of art (http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,976197,00.html).
The Federal Relocation Arc near Washington DC will reportedly serve as the emergency bunker for “every Cabinet department (and every government organization deemed essential).” Site R, a 700,000-foot facility inside Raven Rock Mountain near Camp David, will serve as a backup Pentagon. Peters Mountain (http://phasezero.gawker.com/the-secret-mountain-our-spies-will-hide-in-when-washing-1701044312) near Charlottesville, Va., is the likely site for the nation’s domestic spies to hide out. Congress will retire to a subterranean facility near the posh Greenbrier resort (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/local/daily/july/25/brier1.htm) in West Virginia, which served as an internment facility for Japanese, Italian and German diplomats during World War II. And a 600,000-square-foot complex inside Virginia’s Mount Weather is expected to be the primary relocation site for the White House, the Supreme Court and much of the executive branch.
Built into the side of a mountain, Mount Weather (http://www.theguardian.com/world/2006/aug/28/usa.features11), near Bluemont, Va., is staffed 24 hours a day, seven days a week. This self-contained facility contains, among other things (http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,156041,00.html), a hospital, crematorium, dining and recreation areas, sleeping quarters, reservoirs of drinking and cooling water, an emergency power plant, a radio/television studio and a full-time police and fire department (http://www.nbcwashington.com/investigations/Mt-Weather-Governments-Backup-Emergency-Operations-Center-Activated-for-Power-Outage-in-April-308565781.html).
There is also an Office of the Presidency at Mount Weather, which regularly receives top-secret national security information from all the federal departments and agencies. This facility was largely unknown to everyone, including Congress, until it came to light in the mid-1970s. Military personnel connected to the bunker have refused to reveal any information about it, even before congressional committees. In fact, Congress has no oversight, budgetary or otherwise, on Mount Weather, and the specifics of the facility remain top-secret.
These facilities reinforce a troubling government mindset that treats the American people as relatively insignificant and expendable (http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,156041,00.html). Because you know who’s not on the list of key-individuals-to-be-saved-in-the-eventuality-of-a-disaster? You and me and every other American citizen who is viewed as a mere economic unit to be tallied, bought and sold by those in power.
Not to worry, however. The government hasn’t completely forgotten about us.
In the event of a “national emergency”—loosely defined (http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2007/06/02/white_house_revises_post_disaster_protocol/?page=full) as “any incident, regardless of location, that results in extraordinary levels of mass casualties, damage, or disruption severely affecting the U.S. population, infrastructure, environment, economy, or government functions”—the executive branch and its unelected appointees will be given unchecked executive, legislative and judicial power.
In such an event, the Constitution will effectively be suspended, thereby ushering in martial law.
However, writing for Radar magazine, Christopher Ketcham suggests that the government won’t have completely forgotten about the rest of us. In fact, Ketcham believes that the government also has plans to imprison hundreds of thousands of “potentially suspect” Americans in detention camps (http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19871.htm).
Ketcham describes a program created by the Department of Homeland Security that relies on a database of Americans who might be considered potential threats in the event of a national emergency. Referred to by the code name Main Core (http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19871.htm), this database reportedly contains the names of millions of Americans who, “often for the slightest and most trivial reason, are considered unfriendly, and who, in a time of panic, might be incarcerated. The database can identify and locate perceived ‘enemies of the state’ almost instantaneously.”
Sounds unnervingly like the objectives of the government’s new Domestic Terrorism Czar and the Strong Cities network, which will be working to identify and target potential extremists, doesn’t it?
Under Ketcham's scenario (http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19871.htm), if a terrorist attack occurs, the president will declare a national emergency, activating COG procedures and throwing the country into martial law with the shadow government at the helm. The administration will then round up the “dangerous” Americans listed in Main Core and place them in one of the many internment camps or private prisons built for just such an eventuality.
For all intents and purposes, the nation is one national “emergency” away from having a full-fledged, unelected, authoritarian state emerge from the shadows. All it will take is the right event—another terrorist attack, perhaps, or a natural disaster—for such a regime to emerge from the shadows.
As unnerving as that prospect may be, however, it is the second shadow government, what former congressional staffer Mike Lofgren refers to as “the Deep State, which operates according to its own compass heading regardless of who is formally in power (https://www.rutherford.org/publications_resources/john_whiteheads_commentary/v),” that poses the greater threat right now.
Consider this: how is it that partisan gridlock has seemingly jammed up the gears (and funding sources) in Washington, yet the government has been unhindered in its ability to wage endless wars abroad, in the process turning America into a battlefield and its citizens into enemy combatants?
The credit for such relentless, entrenched, profit-driven governance, according to Lofgren, goes to “another government concealed behind the one that is visible at either end of Pennsylvania Avenue (http://billmoyers.com/2014/02/21/anatomy-of-the-deep-state/), a hybrid entity of public and private institutions ruling the country according to consistent patterns in season and out, connected to, but only intermittently controlled by, the visible state whose leaders we choose.”
This “state within a state (http://billmoyers.com/2014/02/21/anatomy-of-the-deep-state/)” hides “mostly in plain sight, and its operators mainly act in the light of day,” says Lofgren, and yet the “Deep State does not consist of the entire government.”
Rather, Lofgren continues:





It is a hybrid of national security and law enforcement agencies (http://billmoyers.com/2014/02/21/anatomy-of-the-deep-state/): the Department of Defense, the Department of State, the Department of Homeland Security, the Central Intelligence Agency and the Justice Department. I also include the Department of the Treasury because of its jurisdiction over financial flows, its enforcement of international sanctions and its organic symbiosis with Wall Street.

All these agencies are coordinated by the Executive Office of the President via the National Security Council. Certain key areas of the judiciary belong to the Deep State, such as the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, whose actions are mysterious even to most members of Congress. Also included are a handful of vital federal trial courts, such as the Eastern District of Virginia and the Southern District of Manhattan, where sensitive proceedings in national security cases are conducted.

The final government component (and possibly last in precedence among the formal branches of government established by the Constitution) is a kind of rump Congress consisting of the congressional leadership and some (but not all) of the members of the defense and intelligence committees. The rest of Congress, normally so fractious and partisan, is mostly only intermittently aware of the Deep State and when required usually submits to a few well-chosen words from the State’s emissaries.
In an expose titled “Top Secret America (http://projects.washingtonpost.com/top-secret-america/articles/),” The Washington Post revealed the private side of this shadow government, made up of 854,000 contract personnel with top-secret clearances, “a number greater than that of top-secret-cleared civilian employees of the government.”
Reporting on the Post’s findings, Lofgren points out (http://billmoyers.com/2014/02/21/anatomy-of-the-deep-state/):





These contractors now set the political and social tone of Washington, just as they are increasingly setting the direction of the country, but they are doing it quietly, their doings unrecorded in the Congressional Record or the Federal Register, and are rarely subject to congressional hearings…
The Deep State not only holds the nation’s capital in thrall, but it also controls Wall Street (http://billmoyers.com/2014/02/21/anatomy-of-the-deep-state/) (“which supplies the cash that keeps the political machine quiescent and operating as a diversionary marionette theater”) and Silicon Valley.
As Lofgren concludes:





[T]he Deep State is so heavily entrenched, so well protected by surveillance, firepower, money and its ability to co-opt resistance that it is almost impervious to change (http://billmoyers.com/2014/02/21/anatomy-of-the-deep-state/)… If there is anything the Deep State requires it is silent, uninterrupted cash flow and the confidence that things will go on as they have in the past. It is even willing to tolerate a degree of gridlock: Partisan mud wrestling over cultural issues may be a useful distraction from its agenda.
Remember this the next time you find yourselves mesmerized by the antics of the 2016 presidential candidates or drawn into a politicized debate over the machinations of Congress, the president or the judiciary: it’s all intended to distract you from the fact that you have no authority and no rights in the face of the shadow governments.

[Twisted Titan]

When are they not?

Seriously please tell me.

[mick silver]

Up again

[mick silver]

Hillary ‘Winning’ More Delegates Than Sanders Proves the Election Is RiggedSource: Counter Current News (http://countercurrentnews.com/2016/02/hillary-winning-more-delegates-than-sanders-even-though-she-lost-proves-the-election-is-rigged/)

http://cdn.countercurrentnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/bernie-sanders-hillary-clinton.jpg (http://cdn.countercurrentnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/bernie-sanders-hillary-clinton.jpg)
Ask anyone who has decided not to vote in the upcoming elections why they have chosen to disengage and the answer usually boils down to the belief that our votes don’t matter.
After the popular vote was won by Al Gore in the 2000 election, and George W. Bush was nonetheless appointed to the presidency, many came to see the democratic voting process as more symbolic than anything. The powerful, many have concluded, will determine the outcome of the election, based on two candidates that they find acceptable for us to select. If another should win instead, some strange technicalities will give things to whoever mostly closely reinforces the establishment.
A strange result of the Iowa caucuses was the fact that in six Democratic counties, the ownership of six delegates was decided by a coin flip.
There was a single delegate that remained unassigned by the end of caucusing in two precincts. One was in Des Moines, one was in Ames, one in Newton, one in West Branch and one in Davenport, according to the The Des Moines Register.
In all six instances, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton won the coin toss, over Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders.
There’s only one problem… Statistically, it is nearly certain that Hillary could not have won all six coin tosses.
With a single coin toss, the probability of correctly calling the coin side is 50 percent, meaning one in two.
But in order to win all six? That’s a 1 in 64 chance, or 1.56%.
The online (http://calculator.tutorvista.com/coin-toss-probability-calculator.html) “Coin Toss Probability Calculator” breaks down the formula explaining this.
But it all boils down to the fact that statistically speaking, there is no way the six coin tosses were legitimate.
Now, even though Bernie Sanders won the New Hampshire primary in a landslide over Hillary Clinton last night, he is said to likely receive fewer delegates (http://www.cnn.com/election/primaries/states/nh/Dem) than she will.
Sanders had taken 60% of the vote, but the Democratic Party’s nominating system says that he will leave the state with at least 13 delegates while she leaves with at least 15 delegates.
Here’s what’s going on: New Hampshire has 24 “pledged” delegates, which are assigned based on the popular vote. Sanders has 13 of them, and Clinton has 9 of them. Two of them are not assigned to either.
But the Democratic National Committee rules state that New Hampshire also has 8 “superdelegates,” and party officials are free to commit to whomever they like. This can be done in contradiction to the popular vote – as it was last night.

Do you think this was rigged to try to screw ‪Bernie Sanders‬ out of the nomination?


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A little more information on the "superdelegates" issue.....

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http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/268935-clinton-likely-to-leave-nh-with-same-number-of-delegates

Hillary Clinton is expected to leave New Hampshire with just as many delegates as Bernie Sanders, even after he crushed her in Tuesday’s presidential primary.

Sanders won 15 delegates [Clinton won 9] with his 20-point victory Tuesday while Clinton won nine.


But Clinton came into the contest with the support of six superdelegates, who are state party insiders given the freedom to support any candidate they choose.

Superdelegate support is fluid, though, so some of those delegates now backing Clinton could switch to Sanders before the Democratic National Convention in late July.

But as it stands, the superdelegate support gives Clinton a total of 15 New Hampshire delegates.

Mark Paustenbach, the Democratic National Committee's national press secretary, on Wednesday emphasized that Sanders' win secured him the majority of the state's pledged delegates and that the superdelegate totals are unrelated to that victory.

"Let's be clear, the only delegates at stake on Tuesday in New Hampshire's First in the Nation primaries were 24 pledged delegates," he said in a statement.


Those results also include eight delegates who will be selected at the state's caucus in April. While the alignment of those eight delegates is not final and could change, news organizations extrapolated the final breakdown in line with Tuesday's results.


The Clinton campaign has mounted an aggressive effort to secure about 360 superdelegates across the country, according to The Associated Press. Sanders has a total of eight superdelegates.

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So, you see that Hillary is already leading (by superdelegates alone) 360 to 8.

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Gay Wetback Rubio Openly Planning “Brokered Convention” to Steal Nomination from TrumpAndrew Anglin
Daily Stormer
February 11, 2016
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One of the biggest drawbacks with Marco Rubio is that he gives no indication to voters that he’s a human being.Hey, here’s another one of those bizarre things.
AP (http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/rubio-eyes-brokered-convention-nh-setback-36854282):

The best hope of the Republican establishment just a week ago, Marco Rubio suddenly faces a path to his party’s presidential nomination that could require a brokered national convention.
That’s according to Rubio’s campaign manager, Terry Sullivan, who told The Associated Press that this week’s disappointing performance in New Hampshire will extend the Republican nomination fight for another three months, if not longer. It’s a worst-case scenario for Rubio and many Republican officials alike who hoped to avoid a prolonged and painful nomination fight in 2016.
“We very easily could be looking at May — or the convention,” Sullivan said aboard Rubio’s charter jet from New Hampshire to South Carolina on Wednesday. “I would be surprised if it’s not May or the convention.”
Would you be surprised if you just outright lose because no one wants Marco Rubio to be President?

The public embrace of a possible brokered convention marks a sharp shift in rhetoric from Rubio’s top adviser that could be designed to raise alarm bells among Republican officials. Yet days after a disappointing fifth-place finish in New Hampshire and looking up at Donald Trump in next-up South Carolina, Rubio’s presidential ambitions are truly facing growing odds.
…
“My kids were watching me last night,” Rubio said of his nationally televised admission that a poor debate performance pushed voters away. “My kids knew that it didn’t go the way I wanted it to go.”
“I taught them more last night from that experience, I feel, than any words I’ll share. They were learning from that experience,” he said.
“Opening up” like the faggot you are isn’t going to help you against the Alpha Male, amigo.

As he shifts his attention to South Carolina’s Feb. 20 contest, the 44-year-old freshman senator wants voters to know he’s learned an important lesson from his experience in New Hampshire. Instead of trying to avoid attacking his GOP rivals on the debate stage, Rubio said he’s now prepared to fight back when necessary — particularly with his party’s front-runner Donald Trump.
Ha!
Yes!
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We’ve been waiting for this, Marco! You can’t do robot-talk on The Donald! But we’re going to love seeing you try!

There hasn’t been a contested national convention since 1976, yet Republican National Committee officials have already had preliminary discussions about the possibility of no candidate securing a majority of delegates in the state-by-state primary contests.
It’s by no means assured that Rubio’s candidacy will survive that long.
Despite his popularity among many Republican leaders, he will ultimately need to start winning primary contests to remain competitive — especially as Trump and Cruz perform well.
Rubio’s team has long expressed confidence about his chances in South Carolina. Yet Rubio downplayed expectations when talking to reporters. “We obviously need to do better than we did in New Hampshire,” he said of the state where he finished in fifth place.
Sensing weakness, Democrats and Republicans alike have begun to question Rubio’s long-term viability.
“The debate performance hurt. We’ll see if he can turn it around,” said 68-year-old Rubio supporter Rusty DePass after a Wednesday rally in Columbia. “I’m mad as hell at the people who run his campaign for not having him prepared.”
“It was awful,” DePass said.
What is there to prepare, buddy? You just go up there and talk. Your own beliefs and speaking abilities should have prepared you for it. The point there being that Rubio doesn’t have beliefs or speaking abilities.
He is, as he’s been called, a mindless robot. An actual android, however, could presumably be programmed to do a better job pretending to be human.
It’s over, Rubio. It’s time to pack up your taco sauce and dildos and head on back to Cuba.
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Dirty Tricks, Voting Rights, Election Integrity and the NH PrimaryThe BradСast (http://sputniknews.com/radio_the_bradcast/)19:22 10.02.2016Get short URL
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On today's BradCast, we catch up with a number of breaking items, as well as items from the last several days (while we were otherwise covering the GOP and Democratic debates), and of course we will discuss the New Hampshire primary.


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Among the stories we hit today, as we await for the final results from New Hampshire…


Democratic party officials "unilaterally" (http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/feb/05/iowa-democratic-party-altered-precinct-caucus-results-clinton-sanders) changed (http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2016/02/05/iowa-margin-between-clinton-sanders-shifts-errors-found/79889298/) Iowa Caucus results;



Why nobody should simply 'trust' unverified computer-tallied results that will be reported in NH (http://www.bradblog.com/?p=5538) (or anywhere else);



How NH's new Photo ID voting restriction law could affect turnout (http://www.thenation.com/article/new-hampshires-new-voter-id-law-could-lead-to-longer-lines-voter-intimidation/);



Rubio-bot does it again (http://www.businessinsider.com/marco-rubio-repeat-line-rally-robot-2016-2);



Another mysterious (http://lawnewz.com/politics/exclusive-nh-voter-receive-shady-potentially-illegal-voter-shaming-letters/) Republican dirty trick (http://dailycaller.com/2016/02/09/firm-behind-new-hampshire-voter-shaming-mailers-has-ties-to-marco-rubios-campaign-super-pac/) in NH;



Jeb now wants to "eliminate" (http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/jeb-says-eliminate-citizens-united) the Citizens United ruling;



Voting Rights restored (https://www.brennancenter.org/press-release/voting-rights-restored-40000-marylanders)to 40,000 in MD;



MD forced to ditch (http://wamu.org/news/16/02/04/technical_problems_cause_maryland_to_ditch_voting_ machines_for_april_primary) new touch-screen systems for paper ballots;

Plus much more, including our latest Green News Report (http://www.bradblog.com/?cat=407) with Desi Doyen!…
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Bush: I'd 'Eliminate' The Supreme Court's Citizens United Ruling Share (http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/jeb-says-eliminate-citizens-united) Tweet (http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/jeb-says-eliminate-citizens-united) Pin-it (http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/jeb-says-eliminate-citizens-united)
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Republican presidential candidate and former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush (R) said Monday that he'd "eliminate" the Supreme Court's ruling on Citizens United that helped make super PACs popular, CNN reported (http://www.cnn.com/2016/02/08/politics/jeb-bush-eliminate-citizens-united/index.html).

"If I could do it all again I'd eliminate the Supreme Court ruling," Bush reportedly told CNN host Dana Bash. "This is a ridiculous system we have now where you have campaigns that struggle to raise money directly and they can't be held accountable for the spending of the super PAC that's their affiliate."

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Bush's campaign is largely financially supported by the super PAC Right to Rise, which CNN reported gathered $117.6 million last year.
Campaign communications director Tim Miller reportedly started walking Bush's comments back, according to MSNBC reporter Benjy Sarlin:

Donald Trump also reacted on Twitter:
Now that Bush has wasted $120 million of special interest money on his failed campaign, he says he would end super PACs. Sad!
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