Mississippi State Democrats reverses TVOR - fight continues

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http://www.msdemocrats.net/Press%20Statements/040208newsrelease.html

Mississippi Democratic Party issues press release:

quote
Obama wins 19 delegates from Mississippi
primary, while Clinton takes 14 delegates
JACKSON (Wednesday, April 2, 2008) – Sen. Barack Obama has 19 delegates from Mississippi and Sen. Hillary Clinton has 14 based on official returns from the state’s March 11 presidential primary.

Obama won the primary with 265,502 votes, or 61.2 percent. Clinton placed second with 159,221 votes, or 36.7 percent. The other candidates – Joe Biden, Chris Dodd, John Edwards, Mike Gravel, Dennis Kucinich and Bill Richardson – split the remaining 2.1 percent.

A record 434,152 people cast ballots in Mississippi’s 2008 Democratic presidential primary.
unquote

For those that have been following the saga of the split of the 4 PLEO delegates in Mississippi her is a recap:

thevoiceofreason (TVOR) realized that the statewide votes in Mississippi were so close that Obama was within a few votes of winning a 3-1 split instead of a 2-2 split. He went back and checked the county totals versus what the Secretary of State had and realized that there were a few votes added by the counties after the SOS had made their final report.

The SOS amended their final report and that gave Obama 62.512% percent just enough to secure the 3-1 split.

The Dem. party of Mississippi made the adjustments and eventually Demcomwatch, CNN, AP and Green Papers all changed their totals.

Yesterday the Dem Party of Mississippi issued the press release which showed the incorrect numbers using an incorrect rounding and total (the percentages should be based on the two candidates total vote not the total number voting).

TVOR continues to make representations to the Democratic Party of Mississippi. Representations to Rep. Bennie Thompson (D Miss) have been made. Messages have been left at the Obama campaign.

[thevoiceofreason]

1. Politics is not for the faint of heart or the easily discouraged.

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2. The Mississippi Dem State Office advises they have asked DNC for clarification

on computing method and will release a correction if so advised.