Let's start off with what election fraud is defined as: election fraud, or vote rigging, is illegal interference with the process of an election. In the 2016 Primaries, Hillary Clinton's campaign has been accused of election fraud multiple times, from the California primary to the Arizona primary. Many other states have fallen victim to election fraud, such as New York, Ohio, Iowa, and even the U.S. territory, Puerto Rico. These reports are finally coming to the attention of the public, thanks to a lawsuit being filed by the Institute for American Democracy and Election Integrity. Cliff Arneback, an election lawyer, who is the chair of the Legal Affairs Committee of Common Cause Ohio and also a national co-chair and attorney for the Alliance of Democracy, is the lead attorney in this lawsuit.
When giving a speech regarding the lawsuit Arneback stated,
“There is no way the Democratic Convention is going to nominate somebody on the basis of obviously stolen votes…the facts are coming out and that’s a fact…We are suing the media as being complicit in the crime. They are acting as accessories after the fact. They are covering up evidence of criminal activity, it’s a crime. In my opinion Hillary Clinton has been used for the purpose of scuttling Bernie Sanders campaign for president, she is being used…but they’ve been caught, it’s obvious, it’s just like Bernie Sanders when he talks about the system is rigged, ah the elections are rigged, the evidence is clear, everybody’s gonna see it and the game is over…Bernie has won in fact…”
An interesting bit of information is that throughout this lawsuit, which was supposed to be filed on June 6, 2016, but was held off until June 7, 2016 to include California's primary, is that there has been little to no mainstream media coverage. There was an incident where on Yahoo.com there was an article posted to the website, which reported on the California primary being rigged (seen below), but it was removed shortly after having been posted.
While mainstream media has not reported these issues, smaller news stations and distributors, like Redacted Tonight, a channel on YouTube, has been reporting this issue since early April (a report on election fraud can be watched down below, and others can be found on their YouTube Channel).
In this lawsuit, the California primary has perhaps been the main focus. This is due to the multiple reports that voters were turned away and that votes have not been counted. Though Clinton was reported as the Democratic winner for California since only a few hours after the primary had even started, according to California's Secretary of State, Alex Padilla,
“Elections officials have approximately one month to complete their extensive tallying, auditing, and certification work (known as the ‘official canvass’). Most notably, voting by mail has increased significantly in recent years and many vote-by-mail ballots arrive on Election Day,” Padilla added. “In addition, vote-by-mail ballots postmarked on or before Election Day and received by county elections officials no later than 3 days after Election Day must be processed. In processing vote-by-mail ballots, elections officials must confirm each voter’s registration status, verify each voter’s signature on the vote-by-mail envelope, and ensure each person did not vote elsewhere in the same election before the ballot can be counted.”
As of June 14, 2016 three counties in California - Glenn County, San Luis Obisbo County, and Santa Barbara County, have all been flipped from a Hillary Clinton win to a win for Bernie Sanders. More counties in California are expected to do the same once all votes have been counted and reported for (as of June 12, 2.6 million votes have yet to be counted). With so many votes that still have yet to be counted, there is no possible way to know that Hillary Clinton won the state instead of Bernie Sanders.
Another instance of election fraud took place in Arizona. During the primaries in the state, thousands of citizens were told that they were not on the list to vote, after those people had waited up to 5 hours in line just to vote. These long lines were due to the state claiming that they did not have enough people to work the polls. This lie caused the state to cut the number of polls from 200 in 2012 to only 60 in 2016 - this is in the entire state, mind you. Some of those who did vote in the state of Arizona, gave voters provisional ballots. These ballots follow the same format as the regular voting process but there's a catch - even though those who work at the polling stations still have to do the paperwork associated with the ballots, the provisional ballots end up not even counting! This was even stated in an interview with Helen Purcell (seen below).
This woman also blamed the long lines for voting on the voters for getting in line! Much like the incident in California, Arizona was called a win for Hillary Clinton well before all of the votes had even been counted.
America is the world's greatest democracy, or so everyone thought. In the 2016 Primaries, there have been countless reports of election fraud in states all across the country. So much for democracy being a government "of the people, by the people, for the people".
For more information, check out the following sites:
On the Arizona primary.
On the California primary.
On Redacted Tonight. Or watch this video:
