Hillary Clinton’s State Department has been revealed to be indefensibly unethical. From the
Clinton Foundation’s pay-to-play to the highly questionable defenses
Clinton used during her
FBI investigation, the extent to which similar dirty politics were used to help her win the Democratic primaries merits further attention. After the
releases by
Wikileaks and
Guccifer 2.0, the role in which Nevada—a crucial early voting state—played in stopping
Bernie Sanders’ surge against
Clinton is brought into light. The undemocratic nature by which
Clinton won the Democratic primaries sets a dangerous precedent.
On September 15, former Congressional
candidate in Nevada’s fourth district,
Dan Rolle, took to
Twitter to explain how, starting in 2012, the Nevada Democratic Party began changing the state’s voter registration system as a means to
rig the caucuses for
Clinton. Most state Democratic parties—including Nevada—moved to
NGPVAN database systems, which Rolle says facilitated the monopolization of voter data in favor of Clinton.
“So now, if you are
@HillaryClinton and you have
@NGPVAN, you know everything about every democrat. Including who WON’T vote for you,” Rolle tweeted. “So how do you fix that? Simple. Vote Builder. A piece of software that can change the state voter file. And you do that with:
@NGPVAN”
Rolle attended a fundraising call before the Nevada caucuses, between
Clinton Campaign Manager
Robby Mook and Nevada
Democratic Party donors who were worried she would lose the state, as 70 percent of newly registered voters were expected to support
Sanders. According to Rolle, there was a meeting with donors in New York leading up to the Nevada caucus, where donors threatened to pull out.
“I met with Nevada Democratic Party executive board members who told me they were aware of caucus
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