Clinton camp confused over at-large caucus sites (STILL)

[ursi]

January 17, 2008 · 7 PM

Even at the 11th hour — and after this morning’s ruling that the at-large Strip caucus sites are OK — there’s still some confusion, at least within the Clinton camp, about who can participate in those caucuses.

New York Sen. Hillary Clinton’s campaign told the Sun this evening that only employees who work for companies with more than 4,000 workers can caucus at the nine at-large sites on the Strip.

That’s not true.

The issue came up after the Sun asked if any unions supporting Clinton would have members caucusing at those locations.

“If a construction company doesn’t have more than 4,000 people, they are out of luck,” said Hilarie Grey, Clinton’s Nevada spokeswoman. Clinton is endorsed by eight labor unions, some of whose members work for contractors on the Strip.

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http://www.lasvegassun.com/blogs/early-line/2008/jan/17/clinton-camp-confused-over--large-caucus-sites/

[sandnsea]

1. I read the SoS site for about 10 minutes

and understand the caucus rules in Nevada. Businesses with over 4,000 employees were chosen as at-large sites, which is how the weighting rules were applied. Anybody within a 2.5 mile radius can vote at them.

This is just plain old fashioned voter suppression, just like telling someone the wrong day to vote or that students can't vote or whatever shit the Republicans do. They make me sick.

[Lucinda]

3. Can you tell me where you found the rules etc on the SOS site?

I'm not finding them. All i'm seeing is a very general overview and a place to plug in an address to get a caucus location.

Thanks!

[sandnsea]

5. here

http://sos.state.nv.us/elections/nvelection/caucus.asp

http://www.nvdemscaucus.com/

[Lucinda]

6. I've been to both of those...all I found was the caucus math and a general overview

nothing about the at-large rules. Maybe I am overlooking it. I'm getting sleepy. :)

[sandnsea]

7. I can't get the rules .pdf

to open. Says the file is corrupt. I think that's where I found the rules before.

[Lucinda]

8. Thanks for looking for it!

I'm sure the website has been getting slammed hard. Easy for things to get gacked with lots of traffic. I'll try again later.

L

[ursi]

9. If you read it, then you know that the rural counties are using the same formula

Elko County, for example, has a population of about 50,000 now. But one city there has a population of 1,000, another has a population of 4,000, and another has a population of 800 and another has a population of 20,000. All of those do the same ration as the casinos. They treated the casinos as small cities instead of urban cities.

So, if anyone wants to criticize this, please move to Nevada and help us get our primaries back and get Harry Reid out of office. This was his caucus idea.

[papau]

2. the weighting rules are unfair in a one man/one vote ideal world

[Lucinda]

4. Yup. I hope they will look at that in the future.

[MH1]

10. But typical in a caucus world, and agreed to months ago for Nevada.