Obama Campaign Reprimanded for Dirty Tricks
04 March 2008 12:02 pm by Taylor Marsh
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MSNBC is covering this story right now.
I’ve been hearing this as well. But it seems the Obama campaign is trying to stack
the deck in Texas, but also in Ohio. Marc
Ambinder and Jeralyn
have already written it up. Obama’s campaign has been rebuked in Ohio, with
Ambinder having the letter:
Ohio’s Secretary of State, an office held by a Democrat, has rebuked
Sen. Barack Obama’s campaign for trying to staff precincts with poll workers
who presented insufficient credentials.
As was just reported on MSNBC, Ohio has very strict rules on poll workers.
In Texas, the reports get worse. Obama’s team are evidently copying caucus forms and
having their supporters fill them out prior to the 7:15 p.m. deadline when the
caucus is called to order. This means the voter wouldn’t have to actually attend
the caucus, but instead would simply have the Obama team hand in the caucus
forms for the voter, which is clearly against the
rules, which are very clear:
Participants may NOT begin signing in until the precinct convention has been
called to order. The call to order may not occur until 7:15 p.m. OR whenever
the last voter finishes voting at that polling location whichever is later.
If, after the convention has been called to order and participants have signed
in, any participant who wishes to leave may do so, and their sign in WILL
count toward the delegate allocation for each candidate. Sign-In ends when
the last person present waiting to sign in has done so.
This post brought to you by yet another example of Barack Obama’s “change”
agenda, on the way to a different kind of politics. Chicago style, baby.
UPDATE: Statesman reports on what’s going on. Confusion in Texas (link heads up, via email): “Tarrant County Democratic Chair Art Brender said this sign-in sheet flap was resulting from a bunch of ‘false alarms’ from both campaigns.” Again, as far as I’m (a major Obama strategy). Hey, but I’m a Democrat, so I don’t want independents or Republicans picking our nominee.
