The Thread of Democrats

[Cunt]

It's all going to come out. Russia owns Trump. Literally. Mortgages.

What is going to come out? And why have the Dems been mincing around?

[Hermit]

Holy shit - this is probably just right-wing propaganda, but Shapiro just claimed that Bernie supporters stormed the stage, topless, to protest milk.

It CAN'T be that crazy, can it?

Um, did anyone grab screenshots? Like, for 'robust investigation of the evidence'?

"The left" media reports three topless women hopped on to the stage while a fourth woman demanded that Bernie "stop pumping up the dairy industry and to stop pumping up animal agriculture". Peta crazies for Sanders? Very amaze. Many surprise. Much unexpected. Wow!

One of many reports

[Brian Peacock]

Tits out for Bernie!

[JimC]

I'm glad to see that you are keeping abreast with US politics, Brian...

[pErvinalia]

Should be more of that sort of thing.

[Cunt]

Peta crazies for Sanders? Very amaze. Many surprise. Much unexpected. Wow!

I know you all think I'm nuts for cheerleading a Presidential Throuple between Sanders, Warren and Klobichar, but it doesn't look so crazy now, does it?

[Tero]

People come to Vegas for a show so this Nevada wide caucus thingie is just one more show

Meanwhile, several campaigns complained that the conference calls they had held with party officials had only increased their sense of alarm that something could go wrong.

One campaign aide, speaking on condition of anonymity to avoid souring relations between the campaign and the state party, likened the calls to phoning into a “call center where the customer service person only had three prompts that they use.” The Nevada Democrats’ staff, joined on the call by their attorney, offered vague answers that seemed to have been scripted by a legal team to offer as little substance as possible, the aide said.

Aides for several campaigns said this left them in a tough position, torn between trying to be publicly optimistic about a potentially flawed caucus vote in a politically important state and raising concerns.

“All of us, every campaign, regardless of policy position or strength in the race, we all want that process to work. And there’s a disincentive to . . . screaming from the rooftops about how this all might not work,” said a Democratic aide, who also spoke on the condition of anonymity to avoid angering Nevada Democrats.

Several campaigns said they contacted the Democratic National Committee with their concerns. All said they had received no response back — with one campaign likening the DNC to a “brick wall.”

“They are the ones who also can demand answers,” one of the Democratic aides said. “They are supposed to be the ones who are the adults in the room who can trust and verify. And that hasn’t happened to our knowledge.”

A DNC official pushed back on that claim. “The Nevada State Democratic Party and the DNC are in regular communication with campaigns and will continue to answer questions about the process in the state and the nominating process,” DNC spokeswoman Xochitl Hinojosa said in a statement. “We are confident that they are doing everything they can to implement lessons learned in Iowa, and we have deployed staff to help across the board, including tech support and volunteer recruitment.”

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A state party official also said the party had invited campaigns to observe early caucusing and plans to allow representatives to observe the ballot processing, as the party prepares the data for Saturday’s in-person voting.

After the meltdown at the Iowa caucuses, Democrats fear a repeat in Nevada

Experts also have raised serious concerns about the state party’s plan for tallying votes on caucus night.

Nevada officials have been using a Google-based form, pre-installed on party-purchased ­iPads, to register voters when they arrive during early voting. Those voters are then given a paper ballot to rank their candidate choices.

Those ballots will be verified and scanned at processing centers before they are somehow transmitted to precincts for the in-person caucuses. On caucus night, caucus administrators will access the early vote data through the Google Forms web application the party has referred to as a “Caucus Calculator” on party-issued iPads.

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Some technical aspects of how the iPad software will work are unclear.

Google Forms is limited in how it can be customized, which could present challenges for the party if it is trying to make the software perform the complicated work of folding the early vote tallies into the caucus night results.

“Browser-based forms don’t work well,” said Joe Verschueren, founder of Formotus, a company that makes customized forms that can interact with Google Forms.

“Google Forms is very simple,” he added.

Nevada Democrats said their new process reflected input from independent security experts, the DNC, the Department of Homeland Security and Google, which was consulted “to ensure the process would remain secure.”

“We understand just how important it is that we get this right and protect the integrity of Nevadans’ votes,” Nevada State Democratic Party Executive Director Alana Mounce wrote Thursday in a memo to presidential campaigns. “We are confident in our backup plans and redundancies.”

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But it’s not clear exactly how the party has been working to vet security issues. A spokeswoman for DHS said in an email that the agency is in touch with the DNC and the Nevada State Democratic Party and “will continue to provide any support they request.”

Volunteers also have begun sounding the alarm, saying party officials have left them unprepared.

Seth Morrison, a volunteer site leader, had publicly raised concerns about the party’s mixed messages to volunteers and the lack of hands-on training on the Caucus Calculator.

He said several people have raised questions about different scenarios they might encounter, like whether an early vote with no viable candidates should be thrown out. Nobody seems to know, he said.

The first day of early voting did little to ease worries. On Saturday, there were long lines all over the state for early caucusing, with 18,538 people turning out, according to the state Democratic Party.

Volunteers in some precincts reported technical issues, including problems with the Google Forms-based registration that led some sites to switch to paper. State party officials blamed those issues on high turnout, not technical problems.

That same day, state and party officials spread out across the state, appearing at early-voting sites to insist Nevada’s process would be a lot smoother than Iowa’s.

“The [early vote] is going to make Nevada look good,” former Senate majority leader Harry M. Reid said outside a voting site at a public library in East Las Vegas, calling out the “debacle that happened in Iowa.”

Outside an early-voting site in Las Vegas’s Chinatown, U.S. Rep. Dina Titus (D), who has endorsed former vice president Joe Biden in the race, said she was concerned but optimistic.

“We’ve learned from Iowa. We’re not using that same app,” Titus said. “We don’t want anybody to kind of question the legitimacy of the result. So, we’ve had a little more time.”

“Might have been nicer to have a little bit more time,” she added.

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Aside from registered Democrats there is only press there, no audience. Same 3 million voters as Iowa, so I guess caucus is still possible. We had a caucus the first year, then we switched to a paper ballot primary. Our primary gets no press. We like to get state wide issues and even city items on the same ballot.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Neva ... c_caucuses

[Tero]

Trump will not croak before election. But both Sanders and Bloomberg are likely to have serious incidents in office.
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/02/1 ... rds-115969

[Svartalf]

bloomberg would likely make a horrible prez, even if he has more sense of decorum than trump, he still is a greedygut who feels that any problem can be solved by throwing money at it.

[Cunt]

bloomberg would likely make a horrible prez, even if he has more sense of decorum than trump, he still is a greedygut who feels that any problem can be solved by throwing money at it.

Or taking money from it.

He hasn't announced yet though. He is chucking money in, as a kind of 'open-secret' political donation, and when he announces his running mate (Shillary just declined) we'll see his aims better.

Maybe he'll be a 3-way with Bernie and Pete...

[Svartalf]

given the amounts he's already spent on ads, I thought he had already declared, and hillbillary has done well to refuse, a senator under a mere mayor, she'd never live it down... not unless they were actually elected and bloomberg mysteriously died after three months in office.

[Cunt]

given the amounts he's already spent on ads, I thought he had already declared, and hillbillary has done well to refuse, a senator under a mere mayor, she'd never live it down... not unless they were actually elected and bloomberg mysteriously died after three months in office.

I was writing casually...what I meant is that he hasn't declared as far as his real intent. I am willing to believe that he is honestly just trying for it, but I can't help but thinking he has a plan to join forces with someone who can give him more traction.

In any case, he is clogging the ad market, driving the price up, and making it easier for someone...maybe the Dem candidate.

[laklak]

Bloomberg isn't stupid enough to be the only heartbeat between Hillary and the Oval Office.

[Cunt]

Bloomberg isn't stupid enough to be the only heartbeat between Hillary and the Oval Office.

Well, reports are that she said 'no', which sounds like it's going to be a Bloomberg/Clinton ticket, going by her previous speech pattern.

[Cunt]

Is this the Democrats answer to unwelcome rules?

(spoilered to protect them from fake news)

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