How the Democratic Primaries Were Rigged

A person asked me on Facebook "How is it that the democratic primary was rigged?" The answer got rather lengthy so I placed it here in my blog.

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Deb Johnson thanks for asking this question. I'll tell you how they were rigged, and hope you tell other people. Please bare with me because this will take some time.

I was a delegate in New Mexico. I became a delegate by an odd process. I stumbled onto a thing called a "ward meeting". I forget how I learned of the time and place. I can not forget what happened when I got there. I was going to vote for someone to be a delegate at the ward meeting and take video for my James Parks Youtube channel. When I walked into the building I was surprised at how few people were there.

There were 4 people from my ward in attendance and I was one of them. There were 4 spots open for delegate. Because of that I ended up nominating myself and voting for myself. Thus I became a delegate in the Democratic party.

In New Mexico there were several superdelegates in powerful positions in the Democratic party. They had planned on backing Clinton years before the election. In fact at the Democratic Party of New Mexico SCC Meeting 4-25-2015 ( https://youtu.be/zMHM7yJXSgo ) Tom Udall endorsed Hillary Clinton to be the party nominee. Everyone cheered. The party was all in for Hillary at that point, including the superdelegates. I figure because of things I heard from delegates in other states that something like that was repeated in most states, if not all of them.

Democratic Party of New Mexico SCC Meeting 4-25-2015
Remember what Debbie Wasserman Schultz, who at the time was the DNC Chairperson, said that Superdelegates exist to protect party leaders. https://youtu.be/w5llLIKM9Yc There were restrictions placed on how many debates there would be, with a much lower number of them than last election. She ended up being removed from the DNC Chair because of the charges of bias towards Clinton.

DNC Chair Says Superdelegates Exist to Protect Party Leaders

Getting back to New Mexico, at every single party meeting or convention during the primaries there were always more Sanders supporters than Hillary supporters. At all DPNM conventions and meetings hostility was directed at Sanders supporters. There was the apparent attempt to manipulate public perception about this lack of Hillary support. A prime example would be at the convention at the Isleta Casino. There was to be a straw poll to see who had greater support. They handed out a playing card to each delegate who attended. At the end of the meeting all the delegates were supposed to place their playing card in a box marked either Clinton or Sanders. It was plain to see that the Sanders supporters outnumbered the Clinton supporters by at least a 2 to 1 margen. The straw poll was canceled by the party leadership. I still have my card, an 8 of Clubs. The Clinton supporters were pleased that the poll was canceled. The Sanders supporters figured that it was an attempt to hide the fact that more people were supporting Sanders. The DPNM didn't want it on the evening news that Sanders beat Hillary in a straw poll of delegates.

James Parks Jr at the April 2016 DPNM SCC Meeting

Then the party done something never done. They called for a 2nd election of delegates in New Mexico. Ward meetings were scheduled and meeting places were picked. The place for the meeting of my ward was in a rather odd place. The meeting was not held within the boundaries of my ward. My ward's meeting was held at a high school on the southwest side of town. The ward meeting was 1 mile from the nearest bus stop, and it was all uphill from that bus stop. This was an attempt to limit the number of people who would attend. The word was getting out about ward meetings and the party knew that more people would show up at this 2nd ward meeting than the 1st. They were hoping that more Clinton supporting delegates would be elected this second time around. So a meeting place 1 mile away from a bus stop, and all uphill would have been an extreme burden on someone who relied on public transportation and/or who were disabled. Going that distance uphill under the hot New Mexico sun would have placed a person in a wheelchair in danger. It would have been impossible for some elderly folk who rely on public transport to go that mile. I called the DPNM Albuquerque headquarters and complained about this arrangement. Only after that did the County Chairperson assure me that if anyone need transport, they would provide it.

Second Ward Meeting to Elect Delegates

Furthermore at that 2nd meeting the Ward Chairperson tried to influence them in attendance to allow him to cast their vote for them. He was a diehard Hillary supporter, and wanted to use the proxy vote to vote for people who were not even at the meeting. When I and other persons objected to it, the proxy voting was not allowed. The Ward Chair became very angry about it and was fuming. Then he proceeded to try to convince the newcomers in the group of about 8 people to cast their vote for these absentees. I and other persons in the know advised the newcomers about the rules, and that they could nominate anyone they felt was a good choice, including themselves. The Ward Chair was visibly angry about our interference in his plan to rig that delegate vote. He and I never got along after that. I made darn sure to inform people of how to remove the biased ward, precinct chairpersons. He lost his position even though he said it would never happen.

This issue with the wards and elections for delegates is very important. It is these delegates who are the real base of the party. They are the ones who write the party rules. They are the ones who elect the party nominee. Even though these delegate election ward meetings are a vital part, and a basic function of the party, very few people have ever heard of them. I spent months riding the public transport asking 100's of people "Have you ever heard of a ward meeting?" 99% of the time the answer was something like "No, what's a ward meeting?" Even people who had been Democrats all their life never heard of them. So why the big secret? Why didn't the party put out as much effort to inform party members of these ward meetings as they did getting out the vote for a candidate?

Have you ever been in a party phone bank? A candidate will form phone banks to get up the vote. The party encourages phone banking, and supports that effort when getting out the vote for the party candidate. Not so when ward meetings come up. The way the party informs people of these important meetings is with an ad on the party website or in the paper. If the party really wanted the people to participate in the party business they might do some phone banking and canvassing to get out the word on ward meetings. One might think a proper political party would want every member of their party in attendance, but that's not what happens. What happens is you get nothing but party insiders who have been at many of these ward meetings, and vote for the same delegates as they always do. Delegates who will tow the party line and vote the way the party tells them too. Just by the very nature of the delegate election process the vote gets rigged, and it has always been that way.

There were stories coming out of other states, by delegates, who told of other things the party did in order to try to assure Clinton got the nomination. I am not going to try to verify the veracity of their stories because I wasn't in their state. Because of what I personally witnessed in New Mexico, I am inclined to believe them.

The Establishment Admits DNC Rigged The Primary...Then Backpedals

I hopes this enlightens people as to some of the ways the DNC tried successfully to rig the primaries. As far as the presidential election and the Russian's involvement, that is an entirely different matter. Regardless, I am no longer a member of the Democratic party. I re registered as "No Party" the day after Sanders caved in Philly. All of the happenings in the 2016 election cycle has caused me to disapprove of party politics and favor game changing reforms. Every congressperson or diehard Democrat I've mentioned these reforms has vehemently opposed them. The following are the reforms I believe are necessary to place the power into the hands of the people, not return it. No indeed not return because the people never really had the power in the first place. The parties have used the people as a pawns in their chess game. The rank and file of the party has only two functions as far as the DNC is concerned. Register and vote is the only thing they care about you doing. After that your roll is over.

REFORMS:

1. Overturn Citizens United.
2. All political donors identities must be publicly disclosed.
3. All states must use a federal system of uniform voting laws.
4. Grant the FEC the power to enforce a federal Uniform Voting System.
5. Form impartial committees to draw unbiased voter districts.
6. Elections must be federally funded.
7. All political debates must be hosted by C-Span, who will assign unbiased inquisitors.
8. All political commercials must be produced by C-Span.
9. Unlimited donations may be made to the Federal Campaign Finance System.
10. Donations to individual political campaigns shall not exceed an amount set by the FEC.
11. All political parties are dissolved.