Even with Bernie Sanders‘ recent surge in New York and nationally, Hillary Clinton will almost certainly win tonight’s New York State primary because of three and possibly four reasons: (1) Independent voters can’t vote — only registered Democrats and Republicans; (2) Same-day registration voting (which is entirely within reach today) is unavailable in New York State, and other blocking tactics are expected; (3) younger voters may not show up in sufficient numbers to make a difference in Bernie’s tally and (4) Low-information African-American voters are certain to vote for Hillary, as they have elsewhere. So that’s it — it’s basically a rigged election, the New York State Democratic machine is largely behind Hillary, the fix is in and so on.
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“Independent voters are shut out and everyone else was forced to pick which primary they wanted to vote in six months ago. The political rules keep the voters powerless.” — ” John Opdycke, president of Open Primaries, speaking to the N.Y. Daily News reporter Erin Durkin in a 4.14 article.
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