Calling Out The DailyKos’ Anti-Democratic Tactics

Andrew Londre
12 min readNov 12, 2019

The DailyKos Made My Vote (And Thousands More) Disappear

I was one of the 24,124+ DailyKos members who voted for Andrew Yang in the DailyKos’ most recent online straw poll.

But, my vote wasn’t counted.

Well, it was, until the DailyKos realized the result was not what they hoped for… that’s when they pulled a Putin and made my vote — and all votes they didn’t like (any for Andrew Yang) — in the DailyKos’ own words, “disappear” leading to this completely fictitious headline:

Even though this is a real screenshot of a real Tweet from the Twitter Verified Account of The Daily Kos… Warren didn’t actually win.

But why? Why did they do it?

There’s gotta be a good reason the Daily Kos made my vote and thousands more vanish…

After all, the Daily Kos says that their mission is to “elect Democrats” and the official Democratic Party Platform states that:

“Democrats know that Americans’ right to vote is sacred and fundamental” adding that, “The Democratic Party was founded on the promise of an expanded democracy. The right to vote is at the heart of our national vision. It is a core principle of the Democratic Party to maximize voter participation… we must make it easier to vote, not harder.”

And believe it or not, this isn’t the first time the Daily Kos has done something like this… They actually offered a lengthy apology recently for removing Yang votes from a previously conducted online straw poll. However, the lengthy apology blog-post has since been removed from their site. No joke.

A partial screenshot of the now-deleted apology can be found here.

So, the Daily Kos must have a good reason to erase all of Andrew Yang’s votes (again), right?

The explanation offered by “Daily Kos Staff” for pulling the kind of polling shenanigans that the far-Right is regularly accused of… all

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Andrew Londre

Accomplished public servant and former elected official turned civic & cultural commentator and consultant 🔗 andrewlondre.com