Obama campaign claims "irregularities" in Louisiana

[TeamJordan23]

Per the campaign's blog, under the headline: "After Widespread Reports of Voting Irregularities Obama Campaign Submits Urgent Request for Assistance:"

BATON ROUGE, LA -- The Obama campaign submitted an urgent request for assistance to the Secretary of State’s Division of Elections today, after receiving widespread reports from Democrats across Louisiana who reported that they were not allowed to vote because their party affiliation had been switched. Hundreds of Louisiana democrats went to the polls to vote in today’s presidential primary and found that they were now on registration lists as Independent or Unaffiliated voters.

Obama faced a similar hurdle in California, where some poll workers appear to have misinformed independents seeking to vote in the Democratic primary.

Choosing to go public with complaints, though, is always a political as well as a practical move, and it may increase the sense among some Obama supporters of Clinton dirty tricks -- something the Obama campaign isn't alleging in either case.

This primary, with its huge turnout and surging independent cadre, is really straining a very creaky elections system.

http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0208/Obama_campaign_claims_irregularities_in_Louisiana.html

[dogman]

1. Are they whining? Are they drama queens? Are they playing the victim again?

Oh, sorry, that's the other candidate.

[wndycty]

2. Just like sexism disenfranchisement is a serious problem

:kick:

[VolcanoJen]

3. Um, if they can't vote at all, they can't vote for Hillary, either.

You might call it "whining," I call it Let Democrats Vote.

You really don't see the serious issue, here?

[NanceGreggs]

5. Exactamundo ...

Hill's campaign should join in here - this affects BOTH candidates.

[dogman]

7. I see a lot of serious issues.

I agree disenfranchisement is serious. I left out the :sarcasm: deliberately because of the level hatred for fellow Democrats has reached on this board. Their has been so much acceptance of RW memes and ridicule of good people. I was curious what the response would be. Wndycty and your posts were thoughtful and reasonable.

[TexasObserver]

9. that's not how this cheating scam works. They're expunging Obama strongholds

of registered Democrats, then when they show up, they find out they're not listed as a registered Democrat and can't vote. It's the way those in power abuse that power to help the politico they are loyal to.

Like that Hillary supporter in New Mexico who stole several boxes of ballots recently to impact the New Mexico election. They cheat. It's systemic with the Clinton campaign.

[flpoljunkie]

10. Yes, it all depends on which precincts are having this problem--if it's heavily black precincts,

that would raise a big red flag!

[TexasObserver]

11. these things happen for a reason - someone makes them happen

Who Benefits? Clinton

Who is in charge of the process? Clinton backers

Obama supporters are the political outsiders, and they are facing this shady stuff all over. It's not new. The old guard always cheats to try to cling to power.

[Hutzpa]

15. Thats the idea,

hence the reason why she wins Primaries and he wins caucus,
voting machine versus human voting

you can abuse the machine but can only abuse humans this much. :(

[WillYourVoteBCounted]

16. independents don't vote for Hillary n/t

[sniffa]

17. Dis-ingenuousness

Ignored is not being genuine.

[surfermaw]

4. Boy is he a cry baby, looks like the big dog ,took his votes again

Sort of like N.H. when the big dog went into the college counties and got enough votes for Hillary to win.. Big dog was in L. for a few days, way to go big dog and they try to tell you on CNN that you are hurting Hillary's chances, keep up the good work Bill, some of the people that you helped most may be turning on you, but evident ally the ones in L, hasn't.

[Thrill]

6. We'll see in a couple hours. won't we?

[NanceGreggs]

8. What part of ...

... "Democrats across Louisiana who reported that they were not allowed to vote because their party affiliation had been switched" do you not understand?

I didn't see any reference to "only Democrats who showed up to vote for Obama", did you?

[AZBlue]

14. I don't understand this kind of response.

For one thing, this means the voters couldn't vote for anyone - not Obama, not Clinton. It's not an Obama-only problem. HRC supporters should be up in arms as much as BO supporters - if they're not completely reactionary, that is.

Secondly, voter disenfranchisement is a problem for this country - no matter what candidate the voters are supporting or what party they belong to. This isn't about Clinton or Obama - it's about democracy.

Geezz...and Obama supporters are accused of being cult-like?

[Hutzpa]

12. Yet again, another case of

voters intimidation.

How sad we can do these sort of thing to our own
party, what a despicable act. New Mexico, still waiting
for super Tuesday counts. :puke: :puke:

[stillcool]

13. this place is a cesspool...

what part of disenfranchised voters don't you people get? Sick.