Bernie Sanders

Sanders Campaign Press Release - Sanders Campaign Statement on Puerto Rico Polling Places

June 05, 2016

SAN DIEGO - U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders' campaign issued the following statement Sunday on long lines at polling places in Puerto Rico's Democratic Party presidential primary election:

"Some Puerto Rico Democratic officials are claiming that the Sanders campaign requested fewer polling places in today's primary contest. That's completely false. The opposite is true. In emails with the party, Sanders' staff asked the party to maintain the 1,500 plus presidential primary locations promised by the Puerto Rico Democratic party in testimony before the DNC in April, when the party was asking to have its caucus changed to a primary. They cannot blame their shoddy running of the primary on our campaign. This is just one example of irregularities going on in Puerto Rico voting today. We are the campaign that has been fighting to increase voter participation."

Bernie Sanders, Sanders Campaign Press Release - Sanders Campaign Statement on Puerto Rico Polling Places Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/317629

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