Oh hey, reddit thread.
*salt generators activated* Pretty crappy news article as the primary source, haha!
*salt generation increases*Does look like other news sources sorta' corroborate parts of it, though. Near as I can parse, it seems like sanders supporters got a bit pissed off a voice vote didn't go their way, fairly early in the convention, and were a bit rowdy. Apparently calls of things being fixed and whatnot, but near as I can tell digging through invariably shitty news reports sanders near matched clinton in delegate counts so that claim is... somewhat dubious? Somewhat moreso considering clinton actually
did beat sanders on the popular vote, near as I can tell.*
Actually
this looks like it might be a fairly decent breakdown as to what happened, if still seeming somewhat slanted. Tbh, without looking at the video and from what I've read in the last few minutes, it... sounds a lot like much of the so-called questionable behavior was due to sanders supporters basically being disruptive jackasses, and some of it perhaps overblown as an issue (i.e. the not waiting for nay votes near the end; the pretty obvious reason for that that most of these articles like to ignore would be an obvious majority without needing the rest to chime in).
In any case, if for some mad reason one of you out there actually want to watch a livestream of the entire event, you can find one
here.
The delegate admittance thing seems kinda' interesting, though. Wouldn't mind hearing how that turns out. Also wouldn't be entirely surprised if much of the refusals were legitimate based on the stated reasons... a number of bernie supporters
were, y'know, not democrats shortly previous.
*Though I will admit that's potentially dubious. It's something of a sumbitch to find actual vote count numbers for nevada instead of just the initial delegate split. Still, if it's as accurate as it seems on the face of it, it puts the actions reported on in a significantly different light, imo.
E: Honestly, what boggles my mind more than anything in those reports is that the convention used a
voice vote with apparently multiple-thousands of people involved. About the only way you could make that more clumsy and imprecise is if it were votes cast by interpretive dance.
E2: That said, I now have the amazing image of the coordinator or whatever they are for a convention like that saying with a straight face, "Ayes do the Funky Chicken, Nays the Worm! All others must Time Warp or be escorted out of the building!"