Posted on 03/22/2016 10:43:27 PM PDT by M. Thatcher
Just got back from my caucus... My head is still spinning.
Check in was slow but reasonably controlled. Super-long lines. I've never seen turnout like this.
Got my credentials, but no presidential ballot. They said those would be delivered to our caucus room.
Got to my caucus room. I counted about 120 people there (no idea how many were actually registered and credentialed).
We elected Precinct Officers, State Delegates, and County Delegates - the typical incompetence and ignorance of the rules you'd expect to see from volunteers, but all went somewhat smooth.
...Then came the Presidential Ballot.
Someone shows up with a stack of probably 250 ballots. The precinct chair splits them up, and starts handing stacks of them out and tells people "take one and pass it down".
No checking credentials, IDs, NOTHING.
I'm sitting at the end of a row and people start handing me stacks of extras. I literally had over 50 ballots in my hand.
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We were told to mark our vote and place our ballot in a tin can. They then asked for a volunteer to hold the can. At this point, most people filed out the door.
I cast ONE vote, then stuck around to see what would happen with the votes.
About 15 minutes later, with only about 10 or so people milling around, someone walks in the room with an envelopes STUFFED full of "absentee" ballots - some envelopes having 2-5+ ballots.
I raised a question and said, "isn't there an absentee process already in place? Didn't people have to register for that last week?" and was told "Oh no, this is completely normal".
As I've mentioned in other threads, I was in Party leadership for 6 years and no, this is absolutely not normal.
I then asked if I could observe the vote count, and I was told my observations where not needed and to leave the area while the ballots were being counted.
I left the room (things were already a complete Charlie Foxtrot at this point) and wandered over to my friends precinct caucus to see if it was just as much a cluster.
His caucus was just getting to the presidential ballot, and as I walked in the door I was handed ANOTHER BALLOT.
Again, no credential check, no ID check, NOTHING.
No, I didn't vote again...
I went back to my precinct and they had the results: 74% Cruz 14% Trump 11% Kasich
Now just imagine this kind of outright incompetence/manipulation happening in 2000 precincts across the state.
As I left the building, I started overhearing results coming back from other precincts... Overwhelmingly numbers for Cruz... Like 70-90% or more. (In one precinct Cruz got around 100, Trump had 2, Kasich 0)
Bottom line... They basically are going to post whatever the hell numbers they want.
There were no apparent controls, no credential checks, no ID checks, and ballots being handed around like napkins.
UTAH RESULTS ARE A COMPLETE SHAM
And it just cost Trump 40 delegates.
Sounds like another tainted Cruz ‘victory’ ala Iowa.
Yup. Utah voter fraud. They don’t even need Soros and his fake ‘counting company’.
Amazing. I hope you give this story (with specifics) to Breitbart.com, which seems to report news and not just commentary.
Sad and disgusting, but not surprising with some of Soros’ minions running things.
Is this what they mean by Ground Game?
;-)
This is pretty much why I’m against a caucus type situation. It’s just a fraudulent but realistic way to win the election for the ‘appointed’ candidate of the state party apparatus.
Be gone, apostate!
/s
No wonder Cruz’s campaign manager tweeted that he guaranteed Ted would get over 50%. How horrible.
I went through the same kind of crap in Cedar Rapids Iowa back in Feb. I was raised in Iowa but moved away and this was my first caucus. I was amazed at how lax things were and how it would be so easy to cheat (see Ted Cruz). It’s a joke and if I still live in Iowa in the next few years I’m going to be working to change it.
Such honesty from a Mormon majority state - which prides itself on values. Yeah, right!/s
Of the party, by the party, and for the party.
Both Ground Game & End Game.
Oh dear those “honest” little Mormons wouldn’t cheat would they ???
Sounds like a lot of fun. But Mormons would never cheat. Well I don’t think they would....I don’t think its allowed.
“I hope you give this story (with specifics)...”
And I hope they don’t forget the author’s name.
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Pirate monkey
Sounds like a lot of fun. But Mormons would never cheat. Well I don’t think they would....I don’t think its allowed.
So strange. The only place where voted fraud exits is where Trump loses. I am sure there was none in Nevada.
Utah values
LOL
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