People wait in line to vote March 3, 2020, at Texas Southern University in Houston.
Wildly divergent exit polls in South Carolina and Massachusetts, and documented voting problems in California and Texas, have prompted veteran election watchers to suggest that there may have been election fraud and voter suppression on Super Tuesday, always at the expense of the Bernie Sanders vote.
Edison Research/CNN polls show 4 point and 7 point discrepancies in South Carolina and Massachusetts, respectively, between the computer-tallied vote totals and exit polling. Exit polls are considered by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) to be one reliable, although not in itself conclusive, indicator of election fraud. Election fraud may be perpetrated by hacking of vote tabulation machines, or reporting incorrect results that are different from the tally tapes from each machine.
Although exit polls may be wrong, which even among experts are considered just one limited but useful tool for detecting fraud, it is more unusual when the errors always point in the same direction. The both SC and MA, exit polls showed Sanders doing better than the official vote tallies.
In South Carolina, where Joe Biden scored what was described extensively in the media as the "Biden Bounce," Biden gained nearly five points in the official tally over the exit poll projection, and an astonishing seven points in the official tally in Massachusetts. The typical margin of error for Edison Research polls is 3%.
Owner of TDMSResearch.com Theodore de Macedo Soares wrote of Massachusetts after the primaries:
"The 2020 Massachusetts Democratic Party presidential primary was held on March 3, 2020. Election results from the computerized vote counts differed significantly from the results projected by the exit poll conducted by Edison Research and published by CNN at poll’s closing. As in the 2016 Massachusetts primary between candidates Sanders and Clinton, disparities greatly exceed the exit poll’s margin of error. Sanders won Massachusetts in the exit poll and lost it in the computer count."
Soares has noted that it is particularly suspicious when other exit polls seem to be quite accurate in other contests, or with respect to candidates of little interest. In 2016, exit polls between Hillary Clinton and Sanders were off in a manner which favored Clinton, but were always within a point of being accurate in other races.
People wait in line to vote March 3, 2020, at Texas Southern University in Houston.
Wildly divergent exit polls in South Carolina and Massachusetts, and documented voting problems in California and Texas, have prompted veteran election watchers to suggest that there may have been election fraud and voter suppression on Super Tuesday, always at the expense of the Bernie Sanders vote.
Edison Research/CNN polls show 4 point and 7 point discrepancies in South Carolina and Massachusetts, respectively, between the computer-tallied vote totals and exit polling. Exit polls are considered by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) to be one reliable, although not in itself conclusive, indicator of election fraud. Election fraud may be perpetrated by hacking of vote tabulation machines, or reporting incorrect results that are different from the tally tapes from each machine.
Although exit polls may be wrong, which even among experts are considered just one limited but useful tool for detecting fraud, it is more unusual when the errors always point in the same direction. The both SC and MA, exit polls showed Sanders doing better than the official vote tallies.
In South Carolina, where Joe Biden scored what was described extensively in the media as the "Biden Bounce," Biden gained nearly five points in the official tally over the exit poll projection, and an astonishing seven points in the official tally in Massachusetts. The typical margin of error for Edison Research polls is 3%.
Owner of TDMSResearch.com Theodore de Macedo Soares wrote of Massachusetts after the primaries:
"The 2020 Massachusetts Democratic Party presidential primary was held on March 3, 2020. Election results from the computerized vote counts differed significantly from the results projected by the exit poll conducted by Edison Research and published by CNN at poll’s closing. As in the 2016 Massachusetts primary between candidates Sanders and Clinton, disparities greatly exceed the exit poll’s margin of error. Sanders won Massachusetts in the exit poll and lost it in the computer count."
Soares has noted that it is particularly suspicious when other exit polls seem to be quite accurate in other contests, or with respect to candidates of little interest. In 2016, exit polls between Hillary Clinton and Sanders were off in a manner which favored Clinton, but were always within a point of being accurate in other races.
Bernie Sanders polled a one point victory over Biden in 2020 Massachusetts exit polls, but in the official tally Biden scored a nearly seven point win. Biden's victory in SC would have been whittled down by four points had exit polling been correct, but Biden nevertheless would have won massively in the early primary state.
Sanders won handily in California, but his haul of delegates might have been even greater had more people been able to vote at walk-in polling stations. Long lines at polls tends to harm younger voters the most, since the vote-by-mail constituency is heavily weighted to older voters. Young voters is one demographic in which Sanders tends to do particularly well. The long lines in L.A. also heavily impacted Latino voters, another Sanders stronghold.
Many people dropped out of lines, unable to wait hours to vote due to work, school, or family responsibilities.
The long lines in California prompted election officials to apologize. Los Angeles County Registrar Dean Logan, the top official of California's largest county and the largest county in the nation, told the Los Angeles Times:
“This was a challenging day for a lot of voters in L.A. County and I certainly apologize for that...That’s something that has to be better.”
In Santa Monica, one voter wrote to the L.A. Times:
"I attempted to vote six times on Tuesday in Santa Monica but was unable to do so because of long lines. Wait times ranged from an hour and a half to four hours. I have voted in Santa Monica in the last four elections and have never had to wait longer than 20 minutes to cast my ballot."
In Texas, where Biden won by four-and-a-half points, USA Today reported:
"In Houston, voters who got in line at Texas Southern University, a historically black institution in a neighborhood of color, before the 7 p.m. deadline had to wait for hours to vote — many of them well past midnight, which means they were voting a day late. Some news accounts described the wait as nearly a full work shift."
Before the South Carolina primary and Super Tuesday days later, Sanders had a strong polling lead in Texas.
"California officials are demanding changes to Los Angeles County's voting process after some Angelenos waited hours to cast ballots during California's primary election on Tuesday. State Sen. Ben Allen, D-Santa Monica, announced Thursday that he'll introduce legislation for the general election that would require the county to either mail every voter a ballot or open more locations where votes can be cast."
"On a day when most voting went smoothly, the two largest states in the Super Tuesday elections, California and Texas, struggled with hours-long lines in some major cities and complaints from some voting-rights groups that officials were seeking to reduce turnout for political reasons."
"Hours-long voting lines in parts of Texas led to significant frustration on Super Tuesday, with some suggesting that "voter suppression" was at play, particularly as the problems seemed to affect minority and student communities."
Some in the election-watching community challenged the notion that voting problems, especially long lines, were the accidental result of unexpectedly high voter turnout. Independent journalist and podcast radio host Brad Freidman, of Los Angeles, wrote:
"Voting ground to a near halt on Super Tuesday in a number of states, most notably in major jurisdictions in Texas and California relying on electronic pollbooks and unverifiable computer touchscreen Ballot Marking Devices (BMDs). Who could have predicted it? Oh, yeah. We did."
"...in places like Dallas and Houston and San Antonio, that’s where you saw disproportionate lines. They were not the same lines in wealthy white neighborhoods that there were in black and Latino and neighborhoods where a lot of young people voted."
Both California and Texas were crucial to Sanders, who fared poorly in the southern states. The voting fiascos received no coverage in the major network broadcast media, which instead has been focused on the narrative of Joe Biden's new "momentum."
In Massachusetts, Freedom of Information Act requests have been sent to various city election officials asking for access to the ballot images which are generated by many optical scanner vote counting machines, in order to verify the vote counts. Election integrity activists say these images are one means of easily cross-checking vote-counting machine tallies.
COMMENTS:
Bryce Stock
70 minutes ago
We need to demand accountability for election rigging.
1. Iowa unfair coin flips deciding delegates. Votes being counted for the wrong candidate. Delay in results because of voting app DNC forced on Iowa Dems.
2. Exit Polling not matching vote totals in Massachusetts or South Carolina.
3. 7 hour voting waits in Texas and California voters in explicitly dropped from records. Provisional ballots handed out in California which are never countered.
4. Woman caught changing Democrats to NPP or Republicans in Florida where only Dems can vote in the primary.
Its RIGGED. Bernie needs to call it out or we are going to lose.
and today, it came out that one county in TX missed counting a batch of votes. Hope they can correct that quickly, but all these odd things make you wonder about the validity of our elections.
awake
15 hours ago
In California all they would have had to do is taken their ballot to a ballot box near by and put it in . Vote by mail next time
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