The teacher's union that sued to have the Nevada Democratic "at large" caucuses stopped has lost in court. They are claiming they were not acting for Clinton, a protest that I rather doubt that even they believe. Obama supporters are cheering the court decision. The last minute attempt to keep the casino workers from participating has generated a lot of flak for the Clintons.
LAS VEGAS (CNN) — The Democratic Party can go ahead with a plan to let casino workers take part in Saturday's Nevada caucuses in "at-large" precincts set up in their workplaces, a federal judge ruled Thursday.
The state teacher's union went to court to challenge the plan, arguing that the casino caucus sites Saturday night will give the roughly 200,000 workers on the Las Vegas strip an unfair advantage over other voters who have to work that night. But U.S. District Judge James Mahan rejected that argument after a Thursday morning hearing.
The lawsuit sparked a battle between the 28,000-member Nevada State Education Association and the state's biggest labor organization, the 60,000-member Nevada Culinary Workers Union, which supports the casino caucuses. The culinary workers endorsed Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois in Saturday's contest and accused the teachers union of trying to tilt the race in favor of his leading rival, senator and former first lady Hillary Clinton of New York.
Regardless of the outcome of the caucuses, I suspect this attempt a vote suppression will come back to haunt Clinton. This was a blatant attempt to disenfranchise voters and is not going to go over well with the rank and file.
Speaking of voter disenfranchisement. there was an interesting post at American Digest a couple of days ago. It was about Hillary and the Diebold Effect in NH. It seems that even after adjusting for demographics, Hillary scored about 5% more votes where Diebold machines were used as opposed to places where hand marked ballots were used. Hmmmmm……….
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