Jan 21 2008
If Polls Are Closed, Why Do Obama Supporters Suffer More?
This reminds me of the old joke headline: “World to end tomorrow; Women and Minorities Hardest Hit”
“We found an unusually high number of reports that the Clinton campaign was insisting that 11:30 was the deadline,” said general counsel Bob Bauer, adding that at least 300 complaints had come in.
“We are not calling the results into question at all. We want to make sure this doesn’t happen again,” Bauer said.
“We are going to notify the Nevada Democratic party that we want a full review of this, and make sure we have in front of us a full picture to make sure this behavior is highlighted and discouraged in the future.”
Asked by reporters why an early close would have particularly affected Obama supporters, Bauer said “a campaign that departs from the rules and disenfranchises voters has to be held accountable for that.”
He added: “We care about all the voters who would have been affected by this rule.”
Yeah. Sure you do.
I didn’t see anyone worrying about how it gives people an unfair advantage to work in the casinos… I mean, that would make it much easier for a Casino worker to vote than anyone else in the state… Is it possible we’re “overenfranchising” instead of disenfranchising? Nah… Can’t be because those rules were expected to benefit Barack Obama in which case any positively influential actions are just removing the glass cieling and affirmative action.
January 22nd, 2008 at 1:57 pm
So you mean to say that Casino workers don’t have the right to vote ?
January 22nd, 2008 at 2:02 pm
Of course they have the right to vote Einstein, and I never said they didn’t, but who else gets the polls brought to their place of employment so they can vote?