In a third video taken by the activists, one says that she had found out from officials that in the case of University of San Diego, a Sanders stronghold with 34,000 students, any provisional ballot without a student’s room number was sent to a shredder, without being scanned or in any way recorded. Official student mailing addresses at UCSD are a mailbox at 9450 Gilman Dr., La Jolla, the student mail center.

California Secretary of State Alex Padilla, an open Hillary Clinton supporter whoheadlined a fundraiser for Clinton in Riverside on May 21st, has been sued, before and after the primary, for presiding over an election in which many independent voters were given the wrong instructions. Another lawsuit has just been filed asking the court to halt the impending certification of the primary election results for Clinton until all the ballots are counted and questions answered.

Due to citizen pressure, provisional ballots continue to be counted in California and have so far tipped the counties of Glenn, San Bernardino, and San Luis Obispo to Sanders.

The extraordinary citizen reporting in San Diego caps an extraordinarily contentious Democratic primary season, in which election analysts have contended that Bernie Sanders actually won, or did better than officially reported, in many critical states. Sanders rallies topped 30,000 and 40,000 people, filling stadiums, while it was noted that Hillary’s Clinton’s crowds frequently did not fill high school auditoriums.

Clinton supporters have met every contention of fraud with dismissal that such allegations are “CT,” for “conspiracy theories.”

In the HBO documentary “Hacking Democracy,” a demonstration shows how an optical ballot scanner can be secretly, and easily, tampered with, to show vote totals which even election officials are unaware have been tampered with.

The mainstream media has published numerous denials that there has been any evidence of vote tampering on behalf of Clinton, even as incidents such as those witnessed in Illinois and San Diego have been ignored by the same media. Election integrity activists have raised issues with the Democratic primaries almost from the start, in the Iowa causes.

In Massachusetts, another key primary, election watchers have submitted that in districts in which ballots are counted by hand, Sanders won by an average of 17%, whereas in districts where ballots are counted by machine, Clinton won by just over one percent.

Other analysts studying exit polls contend there is strong evidence, warranting further investigation, that Sanders had in actuality done better, in some cases much better, than reported in the states of Texas, Mississippi, Ohio, Illinois, Connecticut, Virginia, West Virginia, Indiana, Michigan, Tennessee, and Massachusetts.

A recent study performed by graduate students at Stanford University concluded that:

“data suggest that election fraud is occurring in the 2016 Democratic Party Presidential Primary election. This fraud has overwhelmingly benefited Secretary Clinton at the expense of Senator Sanders.” ‪

Nevertheless, media coverage continues to treat the nomination of Hillary Clinton at the Democratic convention as inevitable. What is not clear is if Sanders forces will marshall challenges to the seating of Clinton delegates based on evidence of election fraud.

Criminal election fraud is defined in the US laws and is subject to investigation by the US Department of Justice. A 2012 US Department of Justice directive to the Department’s “Criminal Division and the Department’s 94 U.S. Attorneys’ Offices,” states that:

“The Criminal Division’s Public Integrity Section and the Department’s 94 U.S. Attorneys’ Offices are responsible for enforcing the federal criminal laws that prohibit various forms of election fraud, such as vote buying, multiple voting, submission of fraudulent ballots or registrations, destruction of ballots or registrations, alteration of votes and malfeasance by election officials…”

The federal government asserts jurisdiction over election fraud taking place both in primaries and general elections, citing US Supreme Court precedent which:

“recognized that primary elections are an integral part of the process by which candidates are elected to office.”

Lawsuits challenging Clinton’s claim to pledged delegates having been filed inCalifornia, New York, Arizona, Illinois, and Massachusetts, and official investigations into voter suppression tactics have been announced in New York,Arizona, and Kentucky.