The Clinton Machine Disenfranchises Americans on Path to the White House

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Nevar Forget


Today, tangible evidence of the Clinton campaign’s disenfranchisement of Nevada caucus-goers has arisen. This is one of several cases of voter suppression by the Clinton campaign throughout the primaries.

Case #1: Clinton Caucus Chairs Shut Out Caucus-Goers


The Politico reports that the Clinton campaign instructed their people to close the doors to the caucus at 11:30am and they did. The Hillary campaign’s handbook stated (p. 7):

11:30: Deadline for registering (or standing in line to register) to participate in the caucus.

In the Room

11:30: Caucus chair closes doors and announces attendance.

The official Nevada Democratic Party handbook though says that people can enter up until noon. The Nevada Democratic Party’s handbook says (p. 8):

THIS PROCESS MAY NOT BEGIN UNTIL NOON

In order to participate in the Nevada State Democratic Party Caucuses, attendees MUST be in line, or signed in, by noon. At noon, Presidential Preference Cards should be given to any person in line, and after that point, no Presidential Preference Cards should be given to any new arrivals, as they will not be allowed to caucus.

An Andrew Sullivan reader wrote:

The doors officially opened at 11 a.m., but by 10 a.m. Clinton voters swarmed the place. They had been told to arrive early because there were not going to be enough ballots to go around for everyone; thus, first come first served. By the time 11:20 rolled around Clinton organizers were shutting the doors even though this was not supposed to happen until noon. Samuel ran back and forth from his precinct to the door trying to make sure it stayed open and, thus, started the war of words between him and the Clinton people. Cheating followed. Obama supporters were told that there were no more ballots even though extras were around. Clinton voters were counted more than once in differing precincts. Temp chairs refused to register Obama voters. Undecided voters got their preference box marked for them as “Clinton” by Clinton people even though the undecided did not express a preference for the Senator. Overall, the four precincts were taken advantage of by the Clinton team because everything was so disorganized.

A Las Vegas Sun reporter wrote:

Andres Ramirez, hired to do Hispanic outreach for the Nevada Democratic Party, found himself putting out fires during today’s caucus. Manning the party hotline for all problems caucus, it was soon apparent his duties would go beyond queries like, “What do we do if voters for the non-viable candidate don’t want to switch to another candidate?”

While handling such a call, he looked up to see a local TV news reporter speaking of chaos erupting at Rancho High School. As he pressed on in the call, staffers kept passing him notes reading, “Rancho.”

He hung up and jumped in his car and raced to precinct 4452, where he found that a Sen. Hillary Clinton supporter was also wearing the hat of caucus chairwoman — and wasn’t letting Obama supporters enter the caucus. People were shouting.

See Case 2 - 3 - 4 and 5 here :http://thinkonthesethings.wordpress.com/2008/01/20/the-hillary-clinton-machine-disenfranchises-americans-on-path-to-white-house/