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The DNC literally argued in court that they have no obligation to conduct fair elections, can just do whatever they want with back room deals and call it legitimate, so I don’t see that happening:

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2019/08/reminder-dnc-lawyers...

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The surprising part is that they had to argue that; that was the practice of every major party (only ever two at a time, but more than two over history), openly, until after 1968, and it was PR, not law changes, which got them to even pretend to make some gestures toward fairness.

That article is unbelivable, eye opening and infuriating.

I guess the gist of it is there's a difference between a Party's Primary election process and a National or State election. The Party is treated like a private club that can do whatever it wants in its Primars to select its candidate for the general election.

Right, which is fundamentally incompatible with a two-party democracy.

The Party is a private club, full stop.

And the DNC paid for part of the app+services by Shadowinc.io (As well as Pete, Iowa and Nevada Democratic Parties.

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