In the New York primary, officials apologized for zapping hundreds of thousands of voters from the voter rolls, 125,000 in Brooklyn alone, who strongly tilted toward Sanders. Brooklyn just happened to be Sanders' hometown and a stronghold. One voter observed that if there were anyplace to take out blocks and blocks of young urban hipsters, overwhelmingly for Bernie, it would be Brooklyn.



New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman pleaded after the fiasco:

"if any New Yorker was illegally prevented from voting, I will do everything in my power to make their vote count..."

New York City Comptroller Scott Stringer said:

“The next president of the United States could very easily be decided tonight and yet the incompetence of the [New York City] Board of Elections puts a cloud over these results.”

Why were they apologizing if there was nothing to apologize for? How can anyone say there was no cheating?



In California, Hillary ally and Secretary of State Alex Padilla sent out conflicting instructions on how to vote in the primary if you were an independent. Weeks before the primary, a poll worker in Orange County, the third most populous county in the state behind Los Angeles and San Diego, reported that she and her co-workers were told to give out the wrong kind of ballot to independent voters. Padilla had hosted a Clinton fundraiser the previous year, and was kissing cousins with Hillary. The poll worker said: "I was told that all NPP voters are to be given provisional ballots."



NPP - No Party Preference - is California's designation for independents who can vote in either party's primary. Independents in California broke for Bernie by a large margin, about two-thirds.



No one knows how many more people would have come out and voted for Sanders in the California primary had the Associated Press not announced, in a stunning breach of ethics, that Hillary had already clinched the nomination on the day before. At 5pm on Monday, a full 12 hours before the polls opened, CNN was blaring that Hillary was already the winner of the Democratic nomination, by adding anonymous super-delegates who had declared for her that day to the pledged delegate totals. Even though super-delegates were tradition-bound to follow the pledged delegate outcome, which had not yet been determined.