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Originally posted by Javan
Is it the law? Tbh I'm not sure how long that deadline has existed, but when I see institutions making it unnecessarily hard to vote, I count that as voter suppression. And it's not because they "weren't interested in politics", they simply were not in support of any of the democratic candidates until Bernie, ergo they didn't register democrat affiliation.
It's just as unfair for you to compare both incidents, when it was Hillary who played dirty games in both primaries, so Hillary supporters didn't really have a leg to stand on to be resentful. Furthermore, Hillary and Bernie are way more different as candidates than Hillary and Obama. How's that for false equivalencies?  |
That's not voter suppression but you can feel free to call it that. Democratic leaning Independents have existed in every election.
And both of them played dirty in that election. Obama got almost as many delegates as she did in Michigan even though he wasn't even on the ballot. She won Florida and they stripped the state's rights to delegates. The entire ordeal with Howard Dean and the delegates and super delegates who pledged to Hillary but didn't vote as they pleased.
The conspiracy theories at the time about the 2 Hillary delegates who died.
Let's not, Hillary backers had just as many reasons to act like babies if not more. Instead, 90% or more ended voting for Obama because it was the right thing to do and he was the better candidate. For Bernie backers, it's "I didn't get it my way so screw the world". Democracy in 2016.
