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Sanders leads & sues to keep LA polls open later as California turns into Super Tuesday's biggest prize Sanders leads & sues to keep LA polls open later as California turns into Super Tuesday's biggest prize
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The Bernie Sanders campaign is suing to keep polling places in LA County open past 8pm as wait times of up to four hours and voting machine problems threaten a victory that exit polls place within tantalizing reach.The Bernie Sanders campaign is suing to keep polling places in LA County open past 8pm as wait times of up to four hours and voting machine problems threaten a victory that exit polls place within tantalizing reach.
The campaign filed an emergency injunction to keep polls open an additional two hours on Super Tuesday in LA County, where the rollout of a new voting system has - unsurprisingly, perhaps - gone less than smoothly. The new system shuttered thousands of neighborhood polling places in favor of larger regional centers, leaving voters with little choice but to wait in line for up to four hours. The Bernie Sanders campaign is suing to keep polling places in LA County open past 8pm as wait times of up to four hours and voting machine problems threaten a victory that exit polls place within tantalizing reach.
The campaign filed an emergency injunction to keep polls open an additional two hours on Super Tuesday in LA County, where the rollout of a new voting system has - unsurprisingly, perhaps – gone less than smoothly. The new system shuttered thousands of neighborhood polling places in favor of larger regional centers, leaving voters with little choice but to wait in line for up to four hours.
“Multiple polling locations in the County have experienced extreme wait times for individuals to vote, including wait times up to four hours to cast a ballot,” the request, filed with Los Angeles County elections chief Dean Logan, reportedly said.“Multiple polling locations in the County have experienced extreme wait times for individuals to vote, including wait times up to four hours to cast a ballot,” the request, filed with Los Angeles County elections chief Dean Logan, reportedly said.
Voters were urged to stay in line on social media, with unverified claims that anyone who lined up before polls close would be permitted to vote. The Sanders campaign is hoping to pull off a victory that seems within reach, based on exit polls and a survey of absentee voters conducted by Edison Research – and one that would turn a lackluster showing on Super Tuesday into a spectacular success.
Voters were urged to stay in line on social media, with unverified claims that anyone who lined up before polls close would be permitted to vote. The Sanders campaign is hoping to pull off a victory that seems within reach, based on exit polls and a survey of absentee voters conducted by Edison Research - and one that would turn a lackluster showing on Super Tuesday into a spectacular success. Exit polls conducted by CNN showed Sanders handily trouncing Biden, particularly among nonwhite and young voters.
The candidate has energized the progressive wing of the party as he did in 2016 and attracted endorsements from his congressional peers, including California Rep. Ro Khanna and Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar; activist groups, including Sunrise Movement and Black Lives Matter; and celebrities, including actors John Cusack and Cynthia Nixon.
After handily clinching his home state of Vermont with 50.9 percent of the vote, Sanders surged in several other states, only to be repeatedly overtaken by Biden. However, Utah and Colorado were called for the Democratic socialist, and he is leading in California – the country's most populous state, with plenty of delegates that will give him a sizable advantage going into the 2020 convention. Sanders started the primary season off strong, winning the New Hampshire primary as well as the Nevada caucus and – by popular vote, at least – the Iowa caucus.
However, the LA County glitch isn’t the first time the candidate has has been shafted by rogue technology. Iowa’s caucus was marred by an app, developed by Democratic Party insiders, that altered vote totals instead of accurately reporting them. The resulting chaos saw establishment favorite Pete Buttigieg declare victory without a single vote counted and win more delegates than Sanders, despite losing the popular vote by over 6,000. In an uncanny echo of that catastrophe, the LA County machines are known to be susceptible to outside interference capable of changing ballots or rendering them unreadable, raising the question of why California’s secretary of state would opt to certify the $300 million system despite what multiple experts have claimed are myriad physical and digital security flaws.
Fortunately – for Sanders and LA voters – some 63 percent of registered voters in the county requested absentee paper ballots, perhaps seeing this disaster coming. Establishment Democrats have made no secret of their distaste for Sanders, who while running with the party has served in the Senate as an independent for most of his political career. Mainstream media pundits have gone off the deep end clutching their pearls over his candidacy, from MSNBC’s Chris Matthews, who likened his primary victories to the Nazis crossing the Maginot Line, to Anderson Cooper, who attempted to red-bait the senator by digging up a compliment he’d paid Fidel Castro’s education system in Cuba.
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