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I was asked by some folks that live in Wisconsin about our having a primary and a caucus, as well as about allegations of the Clinton people rigging the elections and the caucuses. This was my response:
Yep! We get to vote twice. If you are a delegate all the way to state, then you get to vote 4 times. You can change your vote every time, too.
Here is what I know about election rigging:
In the city of Denton where Obama is strong due to two universities, caucus chairs were not given voter rolls to verify voters that didn't have their voter cards stamped or have caucus cards.
You are supposed to be able to show your driver's license and have it looked up on the roles. No rolls. Many poll workers weren't stamping cards and weren't giving the receipt cards. We were told that it would be okay because we would have the rolls just as we did in years past.
It more likely that minority and young voters would be less likely to know to ask for a caucus card when using their drivers license to vote or would know that their cards are supposed to be stamped. So to tell the folks running the caucuses that they should only allow those that have a stamped card or a caucus card seems to me to be a way to throw the caucus toward Clinton by keeping out the Obama supporters. It also seems like a Civil Rights Violations.
Also in Denton in the area where minorities were voting, the street was torn up all the way around the polling location. The name of the polling location? Martin Luther King Recreation Center. But I'm sure that was just a coincidence...just because they tore it up the night before the election we shouldn't draw any conclusions...
The Clinton people were insisting that caucus goers must have either a stamped voter id card or a caucus card. Gee, I wonder who was forgetting to stamp cards unless directly asked?
I am going to bet that it was Obama's young supporters and African-American voters 2 to 1 without stamps on their cards.
Another problem...they changed all of the precincts in Denton County. Precincts were combined, split given totally new numbers. The precinct numbers reflected in the TexasVan (online voter files) showed the old precincts, not the new ones.
When I tried to call in our precinct, the recording said that our precinct was allotted 20 delegates, but I did the math and came up with 31. The number on the packet for the caucus said 31. Because of this, I was unable to call in my precinct.
In years past, 5 to 10 people would show up for a precinct convention/caucus. Most folks didn't even know about them until this year when the candidates were promoting it at every stop. In 2006 and 2004, my precinct caucus had only 3 people in attendence. This year there were 180, and I think that some left without signing in for a candidate. Others had as much as 287 attendees.
None of the polling sites were adequate to handle this kind of turn out. It was pandamonium.
The Clintons who along with their staffers helped to create this mess that we have in Texas, are now contesting the caucuses!?!
That is some serious nerve!
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